Federal election
Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS FilesNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh probably wouldn’t want an election any time soon if the government was defeated on a confidence vote because its electoral fortunes wouldn’t change much. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press files)
Survey says: A federal election poll conducted for the Free Press shows the NDP are poised to retake Winnipeg Centre, while the Conservatives are well ahead in the Kildonan—St. Paul area. Both ridings are currently held by the Liberals. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Federal leaders face off: Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois, Conservative Andrew Scheer, the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh and Liberal Justin Trudeau will face off in a debate in Montreal. The French-language debate, hosted by the TVA television network and newspaper Le Journal, is the first of the campaign for Trudeau. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Drizzle ending this morning, then mainly cloudy with a high of 7 C and peak winds from the northeast at 15 km/h in the late afternoon and early evening.
What’s happening today
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he departs from Hudson Yards, in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. In a major blow to Johnson, Britain’s highest court ruled Tuesday that his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country’s Brexit deadline was illegal. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Another Brexit deal: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will send a Brexit deal offer to the European Union today. In a speech this morning, he said there will be “grave consequences for trust in our democracy” if Britain’s departure from the bloc is delayed beyond Oct. 31 and that there will be no custom checks for people crossing into Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland post-Brexit. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Edmonton attack trial: The trial of Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, who is accused of stabbing a police officer outside a CFL game and hitting four pedestrians with a van in September 2017, is scheduled to begin in Edmonton. READ MORE
Hockey’s here: The National Hockey League’s regular season begins in Toronto, where the Maple Leafs host the Ottawa Senators at 6 p.m. CT in the first of four games scheduled. Meanwhile, Jason Bell reports on the Winnipeg Jets’ opening roster, which was submitted to the league Tuesday afternoon. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Still searching: Searchers have recovered five bodies from three fishing boats that were hit when a bridge collapsed in Taiwan on Tuesday. Two of the dead were Indonesian and another was Filipino. READ MORE
Corridor’s cost: The southwest transit corridor is expected to cost another $40 million less than the previous estimate and will open eight weeks early, councillors on the city’s public works committee were told. The revised cost is $420 million, while the original projected cost was $589 million. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
A few cents short: An Ontario man spent a week in jail — costing taxpayers more than $200 per day — after he was 35 cents short on bail money. “It’s so bizarre. It’s almost like they were trying to keep me in there, that’s the way it felt,” Ryan Quill told the Free Press. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 2, 2008: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Winnipeg Convention Centre planned a $200-million expansion that would see the facility triple in size and become the fourth-largest convention centre in Canada. In the federal election, viewers could see Conservative leader Stephen Harper, NDP leader Jack Layton, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, Green party leader Elizabeth May and Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe square off in the televised English-language leaders’ debate. In the United States, the Senate passed an amended US$700-billion financial industry bailout package, while Republican opposition to it in the House softened. READ MORE
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