Your forecast
Snow ending this morning, then cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries. Wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming west 20 gusting to 40 this morning. High 0 C, wind chill -9 this morning.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the Calgary Stampeders at McMahon Stadium starting at 8 p.m. Jeff Hamilton has five game-day storylines to watch for.
Bombers QB Dru Brown gets the start against the Calgary Stampeders. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s new premier has promised the families of two slain Indigenous women his government will try to recover their remains from a Winnipeg-area landfill.
During an emotional meeting Thursday — as Premier Wab Kinew welcomed loved ones of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran to the Manitoba legislature — Myran’s grandmother, Donna Bartlett, made a tearful plea. “I just hope that you guys can help us bring our girls home,” said Bartlett. “We need that, really bad. Please, help me bring her home.” Chris Kitching has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew and fellow NDP ministers met with family members of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, chief Kyra Wilson, and chief Kathy Merrick at the Manitoba Legislative Building Thursday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Tony Bage, an airbrush artist whose area of expertise is custom-painted hockey goaltender masks, is a former goalie himself, like his father before him. Since 2013, Bage has marketed his designs under the banner Wicked Goalie. David Sanderson has a look at the man behind the masks.
Tony Bage, founder of Wicked Goalie, works on his latest creation in his home studio. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 27, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Arab and Israeli guns fell silent as UN peacekeeping troops continued to moved into Cairo, while the Soviet Union said it was sending representatives to the Middle East to observe the ceasefire between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. Manitoba premier Ed Schreyer said most Manitobans would not face any major changes in taxation in 1974. Some Air Canada employees in Winnipeg feared a number of jobs would be lost in the city and that computer operations would be greatly reduced when new computers were installed in Winnipeg and Montreal in the coming years. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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