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Mainly cloudy, with showers beginning early this morning and wind becoming north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 early this afternoon. High 11 C.
What’s happening today
In Ottawa, Defence Minister Bill Blair is expected to face further questions today about the evidence Canada has gathered to determine a rocket blast at a hospital in Gaza City did not originate in Israel. Blair made the statement Saturday night, five days after the attack at the al-Ahli Arab hospital. The Canadian Press reports.
Minister of National Defence Bill Blair (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Tensions between Winnipeg’s Jewish and Palestinian communities reached a new high Sunday with an act of disrespect inciting a confrontation between the groups and forcing police to intervene. Tyler Searle has the story.
Police step in as supporters of Israel retrieve a flag taken by Palestinian supporters as both sides gather outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Sunday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during the Second World War was returned to Germany on Thursday.
The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate in Chicago, where the pastoral piece showing an Italian countryside was on display. The Associated Press has the story.
FBI Special Agent David White, left, and Bernd Ebert, a curator at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, sign documents returning an 18th-century painting by Vienna-born artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterery. (Claire Savage / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Oct. 23, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Italian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in New York and intending to continue on to Canada to work as farm labourers were causing difficulty for U.S. and Canadian immigration officials because of problems verifying whose documents showing they had secured employment in Canada were genuine. In a speech in Indianapolis, former British prime minister David Lloyd George urged cooperation between the U.S. and Great Britain towards peace in the aftermath of the Great War, and not to seek vengeance and punishment in their treatment of Germany. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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