Your forecast
Showers today with a risk of thunderstorms this afternoon. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40. Expected high is 12 C.
What’s happening today
Vancouver alt-rock singer Dan Mangan, a two-time Juno Award winner, takes the stage at the Burton Cummings Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $42-$52.25 at ticketmaster.ca.
Dan Mangan (Jonah Atkins photo)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba premier-designate Wab Kinew set a course Wednesday to temporarily suspend the provincial gas tax within 100 days and to move ahead on a controversial landfill search, as the transition of power was set in motion at the Manitoba legislature. Danielle Da Silva reports.
Premier-elect Wab Kinew said embarking on a search for the remains of Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris will be a priority for his administration. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Vikings had windows — usually only associated with medieval churches and castles — meaning Norsemen dignitaries sat in rooms lit up by apertures with glass, Danish researchers said Thursday. The glass panes can be dated from long before the churches and castles of the Middle Ages with which glazed windows are associated, they said.
“This is yet another shift away from the image of unsophisticated barbaric vikings swinging their swords around,” said Mads Dengsø Jessen, a senior researcher with the National Museum in Copenhagen. The Associated Press reports.
On this date
On Oct. 5, 1955: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Canada’s external affairs minister Lester Pearson arrived in Moscow for an official visit — the first by a foreign minister from the Western Hemisphere since the Cold War began. The City of Winnipeg faced the prospect that suburban assistance toward the $5.9-million Disraeli freeway might be impossible under the terms of the municipal act. An automobile knocked over a train near Morden; the driver, whose car was dragged a quarter-mile down the track before being thrown up against a rail bridge, causing a derailment, miraculously survived. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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