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Mainly cloudy. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 7 C. Wind chill -5 this morning. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg comedian and improviser Kristen Einarson brings her solo standup-meets-storytelling show Oversharer, delving into her life of undiagnosed ADHD, to the Park Theatre (after a frequently sold-out run at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival in July). Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St., 8 p.m. Jen Zoratti has a full preview here.
TikTok initially provided Kristen Einarson with an ADHD diagnosis. (Adam Kelly photo)
Today’s must-read
A defunct for-profit foster-care provider has pleaded guilty to providing cannabis to kids in its care and been fined $35,000.
Spirit Rising House entered the guilty plea in a courtroom in Winnipeg Tuesday as part of a deal that saw charges stayed against the foster-care provider’s four directors — John Bennett, 57, Christine Ormiston, 38, Ian Rabb, 60, and Kelli Register, 56 — and three support-staff members.
Spirit Rising House had 14 foster homes in Winnipeg, West St. Paul and St. Andrews before the province severed ties with it and it ceased operations March 31, 2024. At the time, Spirit Rising House had 34 children under its care between the ages of 11 and 17, all of them assessed as being high risk and in need of intensive support. Dean Pritchard has the story.
On the bright side
It started out serving the Sikh community as a community centre. Then, it was a Christian church. Today, the building in Linden Ridge is the city’s newest mosque.
Called the Al-Haqq Masjid, the 7,600-square-foot mosque at 500 Dovercourt Dr. officially opened to serve Winnipeg’s growing Nigerian Muslim community Saturday.
“We had been struggling for many years to find a place to meet,” its volunteer imam, Yanusa Salami, said. “This will give us a place to gather and enable us to provide programs for adults and youth.” John Longhurst has more here.
Volunteer imam Yanusa Salami inside the Al-Haqq Masjid mosque, which officially opened Saturday. (John Longhurst / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 22, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a large section of western Canada’s farm population urged Ottawa to speed up an interim payment for the previous year’s wheat crop. The only known survivor of an in-air collision of two RCAF T-33 Silver Star jet trainers over bush country east of Lake Winnipeg was a French pilot; two Canadian airmen, one of them from Winnipeg, were still missing; one body had been recovered. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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