Your forecast
Clearing this morning, fog patches dissipating this morning. High 12 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
📚 It’s a big night for literary events in town. St. Lucia-born, Whitby-based Canisia Lubrin visits McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location at 7 p.m. to launch her new poetry collection Bright Machine, where she’ll be joined in conversation by award-winning Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi.
Lubrin’s 2021 poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize; her fiction debut, 2024’s Code Noir, won the US$150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Ariel Gordon has an interview with her here.
Canisia Lubrin is the author of five award-winning books. (Supplied)
Also at 7 p.m., a new slate of readers descend on Sookram’s Brewing Co. (479-B Warsaw Ave.) as the Wild and Wonderful Words reading series returns.
This month’s free, all-ages event, hosted once again by Sheldon Birnie, will feature readings by authors Frances Boyle, Ahniko Handford, Louella Lester and Kelly Nickie.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg police and street outreach groups are discussing how to extend an initiative that tries to link people with addictions and homelessness services, while targeting open drug use and dealing.
The co-ordinated, outreach-first campaign, which launched Aug. 7 after an initial 10-day police enforcement blitz in some inner-city neighbourhoods, is set to end Oct. 31.
“I think we’re all very happy with the partnership and want to continue in some way. We’ll be having further discussions on what that looks like,” Winnipeg Police Service Chief Gene Bowers said Tuesday.
The WPS reported more than 200 referrals and 55 arrests over a two-month period. Chris Kitching has the story.
Elisabeth Mague, who owns Elisabeth Hair Salon on Portage Ave. near Sherbrook Street, says she’s noticed police and outreach teams in the area. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk says he is having a blast on the International Space Station and is showing the world how Canada can contribute to the leading edge of space exploration.
“It is important for Canada to be here,” Kutryk said Tuesday as he floated in the space station while taking questions from Canadian journalists in Longueuil, Que.
“We take a lot of benefits from these missions and it’s something that we hope we can continue.” The Canadian Press reports.
Astronaut Joshua Kutryk leaves the Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Oct. 1. (John Raoux / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 14, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Paris, Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov denounced the results of the peace conference as “unsatisfactory” and implied he would seek to undo all its work when the Big Four powers wrote the final treaties. At the conference, the Soviet Union also accused Canada of cheating it in the Petsamo nickel mine deal.
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