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Mainly sunny. Wind becoming west at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High 11 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Montreal’s Heather O’Neill returns to Winnipeg with her new novel The Capital of Dreams, which she’ll launch at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location at 7 p.m., where she’ll be joined in conversation by David A. Robertson. Ben Sigurdson has a full preview here.
Heather O’Neill merges fairy tale and war story in her new novel. (Julie Artacho photo)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s premier apologized to defence lawyers Wednesday after he was slammed for his party’s decision to boot an MLA from the NDP caucus.
Fort Garry MLA Mark Wasyliw was removed from caucus last month because his former law partner represents convicted sex offender Peter Nygard.
At the time, Kinew said Wasyliw could be affiliated with the NDP or Nygard, but not both. More than two weeks later, the premier apologized to Gerri Wiebe — Wasyliw’s former law partner — and defence lawyers. Tyler Searle reports.
Premier Wab Kinew (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Playful large white beluga whales bring joy and healing to Hudson Bay. Their happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by the warming water melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food chain.
Loud and curious belugas swarm boats here, clicking, nudging and frolicking. At any given summer moment on the Churchill River that flows into the Hudson Bay, as many as 4,000 belugas can be up and down the waterway, surrounding vessels of all sizes. That makes it hard to find a place where you don’t see them, said whale biologist Valeria Vergara, senior scientist at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. It’s in their nature.
“The social butterflies of the whale world…. You can see it in Churchill,” Vergara said. The Associated Press has more here.
A beluga whale swims through the Churchill River in August, near Churchill, Manitoba. (Joshua A. Bickel / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 3, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a fire at a mental hospital in Weyburn, Sask., killed six patients. The Soviet Union exploded another one-megaton nuclear device in the Arctic atmosphere, the 16th in a month. At the United Nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were deadlocked over the succession to the late UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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