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Mainly sunny, with wind becoming south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this afternoon. High 9 C, wind chill -6 this morning. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Acclaimed Winnipeg fantasy author S.M. Beiko brings the second instalment of The Brindlewatch Quintet to McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m.
Published on Oct. 8 by ECW Press, The Door in Lake Mallion is the follow-up to the debut in the series, The Stars of Mount Quixx, a finalist for the Arlene Barwin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy at this year’s Canadian Children’s Book Centre awards.
Today’s must-read
The NDP government has retained former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy to lead an ambitious, two-year study into the relocation of rail lines and yards that currently occupy high-value property in Winnipeg’s core, the Free Press has learned.
Sources confirmed Premier Wab Kinew will announce Axworthy’s appointment on Tuesday. It’s expected Kinew will indicate at an event that Axworthy has been asked to “engage” with the federal government and railways on the prospects for relocation, the sources added.
It is believed the federal government would need to be a major funding partner for a relocation plan to come to fruition. Ottawa has provided significant support for rail-line relocation in other cities, including Edmonton and Regina. Dan Lett has the story.
Former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy will lead a two-year study into the relocation of rail lines and yards that currently occupy high-value property in the city’s core. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
Barbara-Anne Hodge feels a motherly connection to Mamingwey Burn Society, a non-profit that supports burn survivors and their loved ones.
“My kids know I say Mamingwey is my fifth child,” Hodge says. “This is my baby.”
That the 61-year-old La Salle resident feels so strongly about the organization makes sense, as she has volunteered with burn survivors for more than 25 years. Aaron Epp has more here.
Barbara-Anne Hodge volunteers her time chairing the board of directors at Mamingwey Burn Survivor Society. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 15, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported former British prime minister David Lloyd George, spoke warmly to a Winnipeg audience of 5,000 at the Olympic Rink, St. John’s, extolling the virtues of the Canadian West and commenting that the city had progressed enormously since he visited it 24 years earlier. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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