Your forecast
Cloudy, with periods of rain beginning this morning, 5 to 10 mm. High 11 C. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Beloved Manitoba-born novelist Miriam Toews is launching her new work of non-fiction at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight. Toews will be joined at 7 p.m. by local artists and cultural workers Christine Fellows and John Samson Fellows. Her latest book, A Truce That Is Not Peace, a work of non-fiction about Toews’ writing process, memory, the loss of her sister and more.
Read Ben Sigurdson’s interview with Toews here.
Miriam Toews (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew plans to introduce legislation that would allow the Manitoba Court of Appeal to pre-emptively review any attempt by a future provincial government to invoke the notwithstanding clause to override fundamental human rights.
“The bill we’re going to introduce is going to be consistent with the intervention we made at the Supreme Court, which is basically just saying it’s you, the people, who should have a final say in our democracy,” Kinew said in an interview.
“If somebody uses the notwithstanding clause, even if the judiciary can’t pierce the veil so to speak, they should be able to still tell the public if this would otherwise violate people’s rights. Then, you the voter can decide at the next election how you feel about government disregarding Charter rights in that way.” Dan Lett has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew (Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Residents of La Salle who want a place to pray and contemplate can head to a new labyrinth.
A circular path has been installed on the property of Community Fellowship Church, which is part of the Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba, in the town south of Winnipeg.
“Unlike a maze that is built to challenge people to find their way through it, a labyrinth has a single path to the centre and back,” said church member Randall Holm, the brainchild behind the labyrinth. John Longhurst has more here.
The La Salle labyrinth (Randall Holm photo)
On this date
On Oct. 16, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the United Nations unanimously voted to ban nuclear weapons in space. Closer to home, government planning was underway for Canada’s centennial celebrations in 1967. Prime minister Lester B. Pearson pitched a Peace Corps-style aid program, suggesting Canadians, through volunteer organizations, could help underprivileged people at home and abroad as part of the centennial. And Winnipeg police received an ultimately unproven tip about a possible Winnipeg connection to the then-unsolved Great Train Robbery — a heist in which a group of men stole GBP2.6 million from a Royal Mail train outside of London, England.
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