Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 60 per cent chance of showers this morning and this afternoon, and wind from north at 30 km/h gusting to 50. Expected high is 9 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the B.C. Lions in Vancouver, starting at 9 p.m. Jeff Hamilton reports on how the game will have a significant bearing on who finishes first in the West Division.
Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros tossed a trio of touchdowns the last time the Blue and Gold faced the Lions in August. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Staff at a for-profit Winnipeg long-term care home say a restructuring by management has created a shortage of health-care aides so severe senior residents are left in bed for hours, forced to skip baths and are even dying alone.
Two health-care aides at Extendicare Oakview Place spoke with the Free Press on the condition of anonymity. Malak Abas has the story.
Oakview Place has 245 residents. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
AT&T and Gallaudet University have developed a football helmet for players who are deaf or hard of hearing and communicate using American Sign Language. The company and Washington-based school for students who are deaf or hard of hearing unveiled the new technology Thursday.
It allows a coach to call a play on a tablet from the sideline that then shows up visually on a small display screen inside the quarterback’s helmet. Gallaudet, which competes in Division III, was cleared by the NCAA to use the helmet in its game on Saturday at home against Hilbert. The Associated Press reports.
A football helmet developed for quarterbacks who are deaf or hard of hearing, at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. (Matt Monath / AT&T via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Oct. 6, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported federal Conservative leader John Diefenbaker accused the Liberal government of avoiding the Quebec bankruptcy racket that had led to mass murder, and linked the secretary of state and the postmaster general with men directly involved in the racket, which he said had ties to international crime. In Steinbach, the federal agriculture minister outlined a proposal that would virtually eliminate risks in Canadian farming if adopted; the federally-backed provincial crop insurance plan would be a major Liberal election plank. U.S. president Lyndon Johnson was set to undergo gall bladder surgery. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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