Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers. Expected high is 9 C with a low of 2.
What’s happening today
Emmy-winning comedian, actor and former Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney brings his From Scratch tour to the Canada Life Centre at 7:30 p.m.
Comedian John Mulaney (Netflix)
Today’s must-read
The number of COVID-19 infections in Manitoba remains high, with an estimated 10,000 people contracting the novel coronavirus every day amid waning booster immunity, new research suggests. One in every 22 people, or 4.6 per cent of the population, is believed to be infected — the highest prevalence of Canadian provinces and territories. Chris Kitching has the story.
Health care workers run tests on a COVID-19 suspected patient in a resuscitation bay in the adult emergency department at the Health Sciences Centre. (Mikaela MacKenzie / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
If you’ve been harbouring any existential dread over the thought of an asteroid hitting the Earth and doing to us what the last big one did to the dinosaurs, cheer up: we may be able to prevent it. NASA recently released results of a test in which a spacecraft was launched at an asteroid and successfully altered the course of the giant space rock. Looks like Deep Impact and Armageddon weren’t as far-fetched as they once seemed…
The asteroid Dimorphos is seen as the spacecraft flies toward it on Sept. 26. (ASI/NASA via Tjhe Associated Press)
On this date
On Oct. 12, 1931: The Manitoba Free Press reported police were investigating the mysterious death of a 13-year-old boy who had been found strangled; it was “the strangest case of its kind I have ever heard of” according to the chief of detectives George Smith. A burst tire caused an automobile accident that claimed the life of F.J. Anderson, president of the British Empire Grain company and the Fort William Elevator company. Both CP Rail and CN Rail said they would transport foodstuffs meant for provincial relief organizations in Alberta and Saskatchewan free of charge. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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