Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h this morning. High 12 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
A pair of events are being held tonight in the West End — one featuring sustainable wines and the other launching some sinister-sounding brews.
The Pourium (942 Portage Ave.) is hosting a Conscious Corks & Cuisine tasting starting at 6:30 p.m. which will feature sustainable, natural and organic wines paired with plant-based eats from Baraka Pita Bakery and Restaurant. Tickets are $75 plus taxes.
Blocks away, Good Neighbour Brewing Co. (110 Sherbrook St.) takes on its dark alter ego as Bad Neighbour, with a series of dark, spooky-ish brews being released during the event from 4-11 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A longtime Winnipeg federal cabinet minister says he won’t run for re-election, putting an end to a 30-year political career and raising further questions about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership.
Dan Vandal, who is the northern affairs minister, was one of four cabinet ministers who confirmed this week that they won’t run next year, including Marie-Claude Bibeau (national revenue), Carla Qualtrough (sports) and Filomena Tassi (economic development for southern Ontario).
Trudeau is expected to make changes to his cabinet for the third time since July after the latest group of ministers informed the Prime Minister’s Office they are hanging up their hats. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
Liberal Dan Vandal (left) with party leader Justin Trudeau in Winnipeg in 2015. (Boris Minkevich / Free Press files)
On the bright side
One of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in this country is now available through Google’s translation service, the first time the tech giant has included a First Nations, Métis or Inuit language spoken in Canada on its platform.
Inuktut, a broad term encompassing different dialects spoken by Inuit in Canada, Greenland and Alaska, has been added to Google Translate, which translates text, documents and websites from one language into another. The Canadian Press has more here.
A stop sign in English, French and Inuktut syllabics in Iqaluit. (Paul Chiasson / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 18, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, the Queen invited Lord Home, foreign secretary in the former MacMillan government, to form a new administration as prime minister. In Montreal, members of the Seafarers’ International Union began leaving their ships at noon in preparation for a protest march on Ottawa. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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