Your forecast
Sunny with a high of 11 C, and wind becoming southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning.
What’s happening today
Henry Small performs at The Pyramid Cabaret at 8 p.m., with money raised from the concert going to help Ukrainian refugees settle in Manitoba.
Today’s must-read
A new poll shows a 79 per cent of Winnipeggers feel less safe in the city, compared to three years ago. “In the last few civic elections, crime hasn’t been that big of an issue,” says Probe Research principal Mary Agnes Welch. “This year, it’s absolutely exploded to the top of people’s minds.” Chris Kitching has the story.
(Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Two contestants on The Great Canadian Baking Show, a spinoff of the popular British TV program, found they both had a connection: living in Winnipeg. And rather than devloving into cutthroat competition, Nigel Batchelor and Jomar Manzano became friends. “Oddly enough, it didn’t feel like a competition at all,” Batchelor says. “It’s just such an amazingly loving experience.” Eva Wasney has the story.
Nigel Batchelor, third from left, and Jomar Manzano, far right, two bakers on this season of The Great Canadian Baking Show, bonded over their Winnipeg connection. (Carmen Cheung / CBC)
On this date
On Oct. 7, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba agreed to a federal proposal for a stage-by-stage approach to constitutional reform, but urged that Canada not be left indefinitely in the initial stage. West Berlin disclosed that it was enlarging its anti-Communist security forces. Winnipeg viewers would be able to watch Have Gun, Will Travel and Danger Man on television that evening, but not the second of four U.S. presidential debates between Republican candidate Richard Nixon and Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy. Search our archives for more here.
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