Your forecast
Showers this morning. There is a severe thunderstorm watch for southern Manitoba, with wind becoming south 30 km/h gusting to 50 early this afternoon. Expected high is 22 C, humidex 25, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
It’s election day! You can vote between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. at any polling place in your electoral division. All the information you need to cast your ballot can be found here.
(John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Two Alberta lawyers who hired a private investigator to spy on a Manitoba judge as he presided over a 2021 COVID-19 public health orders challenge had plans also to surveil the province’s premier and top doctor. At a Law Society of Manitoba hearing in August, John Carpay and Jay Cameron of the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms were barred from practising law in Manitoba and issued $5,000 fines. Erik Pindera reports.
John Carpay, one of two lawyers with the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. (Bill Graveland / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, thousands of years later — from Roman engineers who poured thick concrete sea barriers, to Maya masons who crafted plaster sculptures to their gods, to Chinese builders who raised walls against invaders.
Yet scores of more recent structures are already staring down their expiration dates: The concrete that makes up much of our modern world has a lifespan of around 50 to 100 years. The Associated Press reports.
The residential gruup “Núñez Chinchilla” is located north of the great plaza of Copan, an ancient Maya site in western Honduras. (Moises Castillo / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 3, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Benito Mussolini would meet “war” with “war” if the League of Nations imposed military sanctions upon Italy. The women’s division of the American Jewish congress acted to “strengthen the Jewish boycott of German-made goods.” A 56-year-old woman who had been widowed three times was convicted by a supreme court jury of poisoning and subsequently killing her 35-year-old husband with arsenic. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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