What’s happening today
CPPrime Minister Justin Trudeau at a vaccine clinic in Ottawa last week. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
PM to announce policy: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce a policy of mandatory vaccinations for employees in federally regulated workplaces, including anyone wanting to board a plane or a train, at a news conference in Ottawa this morning. READ MORE
Expanded eligibility: The provincial government is expected to release information on eligibility for third doses of COVID-19 vaccines being expanded. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Speaking after summit: Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Katharine Smart is expected to brief journalists on an emergency COVID-19 summit that included 30 health organizations. READ MORE
First meeting for NDP: The federal NDP caucus, including five new MPs, will meet in Ottawa for the first time since last month’s federal election. READ MORE
Another prize presented: The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to two scientists for their work in developing a new way for building molecules known as “asymmetric organocatalysis.” READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: It’s going to be another hot and windy day. Sunny with a high of 30 C, humidex of 31 and wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50.
In case you missed it
JESSICA LEE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA woman bikes past a sign under the Norwood Bridge which says no camping and no fires.
Camping ban under bridges: New rules banning homeless camps and fires under bridges took effect Friday. The City of Winnipeg has erected 26 signs at 13 locations. Julia-Simone Rutgers reports. READ MORE
Trustees nix police program: Louis Riel School Division trustees voted unanimously to discontinue a police-in-schools program that involves a single officer working at 40 schools. READ MORE
‘My shame, our shame’: Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on the scale of child sexual abuse in France while speaking during his regular audience at the Vatican today. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Bigger parking fine proposed: A City of Winnipeg report proposes increasing the fine for drivers who park where a residential parking ban is in effect. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Record deaths in Russia: Russia’s daily coronavirus deaths surpassed 900 for the first time today. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 6, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported the giant British dirigible R-101 crashed during a heavy storm near Beauvais, France, killing 47 people; eight people survived. Flames from the ship destroyed all the trees in the area. Plans to use dirigibles to speed transportation through the British Empire were abruptly terminated. Among those who died was engineer T. A. Key, brother of Mrs. N.F. McKay of Winnipeg, who mourned his death.
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