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Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. High 17 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🩰 The Royal Winnipeg Ballet opens its 2026/27 season with a double bill that celebrates the influential works of Igor Stravinsky.
Stravinsky Stories, which runs tonight until Sunday at the Centennial Concert Hall, pairs veteran Russian-Ukrainian choreographer (and former RWB principal dancer) Alexei Ratmansky’s The Fairy’s Kiss with the world première of emerging Chicago-born choreographer Houston Thomas’s Firebird. Jen Zoratti has a preview here.
The Fairy’s Kiss is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ice-Maiden. (Altim Kaftira photo)
Today’s must-read
Three Indigenous leaders were encouraged after discussing reconciliation and the need to confront residential school denialism with Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour, while she began her first official visit to Manitoba Wednesday.
Arbour had a private meeting with Grand Chief Garrison Settee of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, which represents northern First Nations, Manitoba Inuit Association CEO Gayle Gruben and Manitoba Métis Federation cabinet minister Will Goodon at the legislature.
“The message is clear that truth and reconciliation is part of something that we, as all of Canada and the world, need to understand. It is not something that just ends,” Gruben said after the meeting. Chris Kitching has the story.
Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour (second from left) with (from left): CEO Gayle Gruben, Manitoba Inuit Association; Grand Chief Garrison Settee, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak; and Minister Will Goodon, Manitoba Métis Federation. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
A local middle school now bears the name of one of its most famous alumni.
École Selkirk Junior High was renamed Murray Sinclair Middle School at a ceremony Wednesday.
The late Sinclair, who was a judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, played basketball for the school team, back when it was known as Selkirk Collegiate Institute.
In 1968, he was named male athlete of the year and voted valedictorian. He would go on to dedicate his career to Indigenous justice and human rights in Canada.
“Every once in a while, somebody comes along and they change the landscape. They change the direction of a country,” Selkirk Mayor Larry Johannson said, referring to Sinclair, who died in November 2024 at the age of 73. Kelly-Anne Riess has more here.
Lord Selkirk School Division students, families, staff and community members gathered Wednesday to celebrate the renaming of the École Selkirk Junior High as Murray Sinclair Middle School to honour the legacy of the late Honourable Murray Sinclair. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 8, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that premier Duff Roblin unveiled Manitoba’s new provincial flag, after it had been given royal approval. The Canada-United States auto pact agreement was beginning to have the expected impact, with increases in Canadian automobile production and forecasts of car price cuts to come.
Today’s front page
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