Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 13 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🎭 The Bloody Theatre, by Winnipeg playwright Steve Ratzlaff and produced by Untimely Theatre, opens tonight at the Gas Station Theatre. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
From left: Steven Ratzlaff, Tracey Nepinak and Sarah Constible in The Bloody Theatre. (Leif Norman photo)
📚 The Winnipeg Book Festival kicks off today, featuring a wide-ranging roster of writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
Michelle Good’s new novel, Eliza Sunshine, will be released during a lunch party on Saturday. (Kent Wong Photography)
Today’s must-read
As Jazmyn-Rae Desjarlais carried her nearly two-year-old daughter in her arms, she said every step she took honoured her ancestors’ and relatives’ pain from residential schools.
The 25-year-old from Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, located roughly 60 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, said she’s grateful her daughter will never experience the trauma caused by those institutions, but it’s necessary to continue remembering the abuse Indigenous people have faced for reconciliation to happen.
“History doesn’t disappear just because it already happened. We’re still dealing with it. We’re still taking steps to heal every day,” she said.
Desjarlais was among thousands of people, clad in orange shirts, who marched through downtown Winnipeg to honour those who survived and died in residential schools. Matthew Frank has the story.
People attend the opening ceremony for the Orange Shirt Day Healing Walk at the Oodena Circle at The Forks. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On the bright side
As the sun rises over Florida’s iconic Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning, Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk will be making the final preparations to fulfil his lifelong dream of blasting off into space.
If the weather holds, the 44-year-old will be among NASA’s SpaceX Crew 13 launching at 11:10 a.m. ET to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.
From the ground, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly will be watching. It will be the first space launch she’s ever attended and Joly said it’s not lost on her that Kutryk will be on board with a Russian and two Americans. The Canadian Press has more here.
The crew for the upcoming NASA SpaceX launch (from left) — Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, pilot Luke Delaney, commander Jessica Watkins and Joshua Kutryk of Canada. (John Raoux / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 1, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London the nine-power conference bogged down in disagreement after France rejected a compromise plan for controlling any runaway German rearmament. The richest oil strike in Manitoba so far was in an unpromising field near Virden, which had industry and government officials believing it would mark the start of a new era of oil discovery in the province.
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