Your forecast
Sunny this morning, with a mix of sun and cloud and a 30 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon.Expected high is 17 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg poetry-slam artist Larysa Musick performs tonight at 8:30 at the Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club — except she’ll have songs from her debut EP to perform rather than poems to recite. Alan Small has the story.
Singer-songwriter Larysa Musick’s first stage appearances were as a slam poet. (Laina Brown photo)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew promised changes to the boards of provincial Crown corporations — starting with strike-affected MPI — as the new NDP cabinet met for the first time Thursday. “Right now, I think the situation at Manitoba Public Insurance with the strike is the one that demands the most immediate attention,” the premier said. Carol Sanders reports.
Premier Wab Kinew meets with members of the executive council for their first cabinet meeting on Thursday morning. (Mike Deal / Winnpeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Churchill residents will see better eye care now, thanks to the recent installation of optometrist equipment to perform exams to fit glasses. A pilot project between the Churchill Health Centre, Manitoba Association of Optometrists and University of Waterloo’s school of optometry/vision science has a dedicated space set up in the northern community’s hospital, with equipment donated by the Southern Ontario school.
Winnipeg optometrist Allison Van Dyck will fly to Churchill, located 1,000 kilometres north of the capital, for the first clinic Oct. 23-25. Kevin Rollason has the story.
On this date
On Oct. 20, 1972: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba premier Ed Schreyer said a start would be made before Feb. 1 on capital works valued at nearly $52 million to provide extra work during the winter; some of the work would begin soon and continue until May, providing 3,588 jobs over a seven-month period. In Ottawa, the president of the Treasury Board admitted the leak of a document calling the federal government’s public service bilingualism policy “a flop” was an embarassment. In Belfast, a warlike speech by a top Northern Ireland Protestant commander predicted 1,000 more deaths before Christmas, shocking even his hardline supporters. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
