Your forecast
Cloudy, with snow beginning this morning, about 5 cm, with wind becoming north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 late this afternoon. Expected high is -2 C, with wind chill -13 this morning and -7 this afternoon.
Today’s must-read
Non-profit agency Agape Table, which provides paper-bag breakfasts Monday to Friday in addition to operating a food bank, recently expanded its hours to meet an influx of new visitors forced to resort to food banks to fill the gaps made by inflation stretching the paycheques of the working poor too thin.
“Did you wake up hungry? I did,” says one of the people picking up a breakfast. Malak Abas has the story.
Volunteer Rouven Hoffmann stocks the freezer with meat at Harvest Manitoba. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the New York Rangers at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7:30 p.m. As Ken Wiebe writes, “Thanks to a victory over the Detroit Red Wings and a shootout loss to the Montreal Canadiens, the Jets are now 4-3-1 in the NHL standings and starting to show some signs of being a team that’s figuring out its strengths.” Read the full story here.
Winnipeg Jets goaltender Laurent Brossoit (39) makes a save against Montreal Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher (11) on Saturday. (Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Transcona neighbours are scaring up donations for their local food bank. Carol Cassell is the organizer of Halloween Haunts for the Transcona Food Bank, a new initiative that includes nine of the neighbourhood’s most-decorated homes.
The neighbours are inviting visitors to leave non-perishable items for families in need. Each participating home has a sign on its lawn listing the addresses of the other residences. Aaron Epp has the story.
Crystal and Jonathan Lloyd have decorated their house for more than 10 years. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 30, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Britain, the Conservatives were likely to regain control of parliament with a majority as election results came in; two political veterans, Liberal leader H.H. Asquith and longtime Labor organizer Ben Tillett, went down to defeat. The CPR reported the death toll in the Farron, B.C., disaster had reached eight, following an explosion aboard a train that killed Doukhoubor leader Peter Verigin; though the railway had had difficulties in the past with Doukhoubors transporting dynamite in gunny sacks, this explosion was suspected to have been caused by a time bomb meant for Verigin. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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