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A mix of sun and cloud. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 15 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Longtime Winnipeg politician, cabinet minister and academic Lloyd Axworthy takes the stage at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m. to launch his new memoir Lloyd Axworthy: My Life in Politics, published this month by Sutherland House Books. You can read an excerpt here. For more information on tonight’s event, click here.
In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to testify today as a federal inquiry into foreign interference finishes the latest phase of its work.
The commission of inquiry is looking at the ability of institutions to detect and fend off the attempts of hostile states to meddle in Canadian affairs. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
The University of Manitoba has been the beneficiary of almost half-a-billion dollars in grants — the most of any post-secondary institution in the country — from the foundation headed by software billionaire Bill Gates and his ex-wife.
On Tuesday, the university announced the latest US$12.5-million grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had brought in more than $450 million in research dollars since the foundation’s first grant to it 22 years ago. Kevin Rollason has the story.
Software billionaire Bill Gates (Evan Vucci / The Associated Press files)
On the bright side
October’s supermoon is the closest of the year and it’s teaming up with a comet for a rare stargazing two-for-one.
The third of four supermoons this year, it will be 357,364 kilometres away Wednesday night, making it seem even bigger and brighter than in August and September. It will reach its full lunar phase Thursday.
In a twist of cosmic fate, a comet is in the neighborhood. Discovered last year, comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is now prominent in the Northern Hemisphere after wowing stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere. The Associated Press has more here.
On this date
On Oct. 16, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Berlin, German chancellor Adolf Hitler, ahead of a Nov. 12 parliamentary election, declared he was committed to a course of militant nationalism in foreign affairs but denied the possibility of territorial conflict with France. In Paris, French leadership said a conflict with Germany now looked inevitable unless some conciliation could be reached. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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