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What’s happening today
📘 American writer and critic David Treuer lands in Winnipeg today, and will be joined at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location at 7 p.m. by Winnipeg author Jenny Heijun Wills to discuss his latest book The Savage Mind: An Indigenous Legacy.
Today’s must-read
One of Grifols’ two clinics in Winnipeg resumed taking plasma donations Tuesday as part of the pharmaceutical giant’s phased reopening in Canada, while the other location remains closed with a suspended licence.
The company temporarily halted paid plasma collections at its clinics across Canada on Aug. 14 amid scrutiny after two people died following donations at the Taylor Avenue and Innovation Drive sites.
The Innovation Drive plasma donation centre where one person made a donation in January and later died. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Grifols said in a news release the Innovation Drive location, near the University of Manitoba, and a clinic in Edmonton reopened Tuesday with a limited number of appointments that will gradually increase.
Health Canada suspended the Taylor clinic’s licence Sept. 23 for non-compliance with regulations. Terms and conditions were placed on Grifols’ 16 other donation centres in Canada. The Innovation Drive clinic’s licence was not suspended. Chris Kitching has the story.
On this date
On Oct. 21, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported after being shut down for seven weeks by a strike, the Swift Canadian packing plant in St. Boniface resumed operation when employees returned to work by order of the union. The civic election campaign was all but over as Winnipeggers would head to the polls on Oct. 22; a front-page article described it as “a very unenthusiastic campaign taking it all around” but the newspaper nevertheless urged people to exercise their right to vote.
Today’s front page
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