Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 early this afternoon. Chance of rain this evening. Expected high is 17 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Los Angeles Kings at the Canada Life Centre, beginning at 7 p.m., and for three of the newest Jets, it’s a chance to face off against their former teammates. Mike McIntyre has the story.
“It’s going to be a fun one. We’ll see a lot of friends out there. Not on the ice, though,” Rasmus Kupari said. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Jim Jordan’s nomination for speaker this afternoon, two weeks after the chamber ousted Kevin McCarthy from the top spot. The Associated Press has updates here.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday. (J. Scott Applewhite / The Associated Press)
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg man is asking a judge to find him not criminally responsible for the 2021 deaths of his parents and stabbing of his work supervisor, arguing he was in the grip of hallucinations that made him believe the victims were “contaminated by evil.”
Gasps could be heard in the courtroom Monday as Trevor Farley, 39, stood in the prisoner’s box, flanked by his lawyers, and pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the respective killings of Judy Swain and Stuart Farley, and not guilty to attempted murder for a knife attack on Candyce Szkwarek. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Police respond to the scene at Seven Oaks General Hospital on Oct. 27, 2021. (Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Antibodies found in early results of a historic new vaccine trial are expected to give endangered California condors at least partial protection from the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history.
The California condor is the only bird species in the U.S. that has been approved for the new emergency-use vaccine, which was administered this summer to condors bred in captivity during a trial at the Los Angeles Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and the Oregon Zoo. The Associated Press reports.
A California condor takes flight in the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 17, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported police continued to search for a suspect after a fourth Winnipeg woman was attacked; she was able to frighten off the man who assaulted her by screaming, even as he sought to gag her. Three women in various parts of the city had been attcked by a man who closed his hands around their necks before throwing them to the ground — the culprit had been dubbed the “Throttler.” Winnipeg’s new $1-million civic auditorium on Memorial Boulevard, constructed as one of the city’s major unemployment relief projects, received a grand opening attended by 12,000 visitors and which included a live address from prime minister R. B. Bennett in Ottawa. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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