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What’s happening today
Joelle Kidd launches Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m., where she’ll be joined in conversation by Andrew Unger. Read Laurence Broadhurst’s book review here.
Joelle Kidd’s debut book-length work of non-fiction chronicles her formative years spent in an evangelical Christian school in Manitoba. (Jon Owen photo)
Today’s must-read
The province is considering a Point Douglas building as the location of a proposed 72-hour detox centre for highly intoxicated people, despite scrapping previous plans for a supervised consumption site there after residents complained.
The “protective care centre” could be created at 190 Disraeli Fwy., just blocks away from the current 24-hour detox centre operated by Main Street Project, Premier Wab Kinew said.
“This is about protecting people, but also protecting the community,” Kinew told reporters Thursday afternoon. “We see a very visible impact that meth is having… and so having a facility to keep people there so they are not being a harm to themselves or others is an important response.” Tyler Searle has the story.
The building at 190 Disraeli Fwy. is currently home to N’Dinawemak, an Indigenous-led homeless shelter. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On the bright side
One of Manitoba’s highest honours, the Order of the Buffalo Hunt, has been bestowed upon a long list of groups that battled the flames during the worst wildfire season in decades.
“The 2025 season reminded us once again of the courage and professionalism of Manitoba’s wildfire service and emergency management teams,” said Premier Wab Kinew at Thursday’s ceremony. Nicole Buffie has more here.
For their work during Manitoba’s wildfire season, 95 municipal governments, First Nations, non-profit organizations, volunteer fire departments and various other organizations were inducted into the Order of the Buffalo Hunt. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 10, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, Canada’s shaky Conservative government was again upheld when Social Crediters reluctantly rallied to its support to keep it in office in the face of a non-confidence motion from the Liberals that was supported by the NDP. In Washington, D.C., U.S. lumber distributors and wholesalers along the eastern seaboard joined in an appeal to the U.S. tariff commission to throw out U.S. lumber producers’ demands for massive import restrictions on Canadian lumber. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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