Your forecast
Mainly sunny. Wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h near noon. High 18 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets host the Boston Bruins at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m. Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe sat down with Jets head coach Scott Arniel to talk about the coming season.
Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel (John Woods / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba Labour Board has ruled Dynacare workers are essential employees and their services must be maintained during a labour dispute.
The ruling, issued Thursday afternoon, said the board was satisfied that essential services “must be maintained in the event of job action involving Dynacare and the (Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals) in order to prevent a threat to the health, safety and welfare of residents of Manitoba.”
The private company’s 350 lab technicians and technologists in Winnipeg, Brandon and other communities went on strike briefly Sept. 8 before the labour board issued an interim order forcing them back to work while it decided the essential-services question. Nicole Buffie has the story.
The Manitoba Labour Board has ruled Dynacare lab employees are essential workers. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Jack Pearadin is the first to admit that his diamond-hunting hobby hasn’t paid off, despite sifting rocks for more than a dozen years.
But earlier this year, the Navy reservist and his friend shovelled a six-carat diamond from a field in Arkansas where he’s found over 300 gems so far. And this one was like nothing he’s dug up before — Pearadin claims collectors have told him it could be worth over $1 million. The Associated Press has more here.
The American Dream diamond sitting on top of a large gem in Buena Vista, Colo. (Jack Pearadin via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Oct. 2, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba’s justice minister was planning to appoint a joint government-legal committee to conduct a review of Manitoba’s system for administering justice. Hal Banks, wanted in Canada to serve time for conspiring to beat a rival union organizer, was reportedly spotted relaxing on a yacht in Mill Basin, Brooklyn.
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