Your forecast
Rain with a risk of a thunderstorm this morning, between 10 and 15 mm. High today of 12 C, falling to 5 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Anita Neville will be sworn in as Manitoba’s 26th lieutenant governor at the legislature at 2:30 p.m.
Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, goes on trial in a criminal tax case in New York City.
Today’s must-read
As candidates for mayor make their final push ahead of election day on Oct. 26, observers say the race still has no clear front-runner and anything could happen. “I think the Winnipeg mayoral campaign right now is still a competitive race,” said Christopher Adams, adjunct professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba. Katrina Clarke reports.
(John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 24, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported Sir Eric Geddes told the Imperial conference in London that restoring prewar industrial and economic conditions in Europe would take years, possibly generations, if Germany disintegrated. In Cleveland, former British prime minister Sir David Lloyd George, having recently visited the sarcophagus of late U.S. president Warren G. Harding, urged the U.S. at a chamber of commerce gathering to support the cause of peace: “I ask you, don’t turn your backs on Europe. You saved it once.” Search our archives for more here.
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