Your forecast
Cloudy with flurries early this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud with wind from the north at 20 km/h. Expected high is 6 C. A special weather statement is in effect concerning weather systems likely to bring 5-10 cm of snow into southern Manitoba on Wednesday. Kevin Rollason reports.
Thin ice signs installed along the Assiniboine River near the Legislative Building on Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
What’s happening today
Iceland’s prime minister and women across the volcanic island nation went on strike today to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. Icelanders awoke to all-male newscaster teams announcing shutdowns across the island nation: schools closed, public transport delayed, hospitals understaffed, hotel rooms uncleaned. The Associated Press reports.
Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Markus Schreiber / The Associated Press files)
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Today’s must-read
The newly minted NDP government will call a public inquiry into the controversial decision by Manitoba Justice not to lay criminal charges against key civic officials and contractors involved in the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters scandal.
In an exclusive interview with the Free Press, Premier Wab Kinew said his government will live up to pledges made while in opposition to hold inquiries into the WPS headquarters affair and the province’s pandemic response. Dan Lett has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales appears to be levelling off after years of discouraging declines, according to new data released today by an international team of marine scientists. However, human-caused injuries to the whales remain a concern. The Canadian Press reports from Halifax.
North Atlantic right whales (Handout / New England Aquarium / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 24, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the federal Liberals triumphed in byelections in Saskatchewan, Quebec and New Brunswick. A 24-year-old man whose last residence was in South Dakota was remanded to Minot, N.D. after being apprehended in Winnipeg with an automobile that had been stolen from a Minot resident; the accused pleaded guilty to the theft, as well as to other crimes committed while in Manitoba. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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