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A mix of sun and cloud, with wind becoming northeast at 20 km/h early this afternoon. Expected high is 13 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Manitoba’s surprisingly vibrant mountain climbing community will be on display during Adventure Film Night at the Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St., at 7:30 p.m.
Flatlanders is a new docu-series from filmmaker and climber Ivan Hughes about the continued fascination with mountaineering in one of the flattest places in the country. In a media release, Hughes describes the films as an entertaining look at “what many would think would be an obscure passion here in the prairies.” Tickets are $15 at myparktheatre.com
Flatlanders is a docu-series from filmmaker Ivan Hughes about Manitoba’s surprisingly vibrant mountain climbing community. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg police have quietly removed some community patrols from high-crime neighbourhoods and reassigned them downtown as violence escalates in the city’s core.
The move will bolster police presence in the city’s economic heart, but is drawing criticism from advocates and officials elsewhere. Tyler Searle has the story.
Some community patrols from high-crime neighbourhoods have been reassigned to downtown as violence escalates in the city’s core. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Post-tropical storm Fiona left behind a trail of destruction and crumbling shorelines on Prince Edward Island, but the cataclysmic tempest seems to have been a big help to a tiny bird, the piping plover. Lily McLaine, a spokeswoman for Parks Canada, said the number of piping plover chicks has seen a small increase this year. The Canadian Press reports.
A piping plover chick. (Handout / Parks Canada / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 12, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Munsan, hopes for reopening Korean truce talks were rocked by a Communist charge that three Allied fighter planes strafed the Panmunjom area, killing a Korean boy and wounding another. In Cairo, official sources said Egypt would declare British troops in the Suez canal area “enemy forces” after parliament cancelled the country’s treaties with Britain. In Ottawa, Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh broke from their carefully scheduled visit by insisting they be allowed to climb the Peace Tower like any other visitors to the city. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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