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Sunny, with wind from the south at 30 km/h. High 22 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place in their first game of the regular NHL season. Mike McIntyre has a preview here.
Jets captain Adam Lowry crowds the front of the Edmonton Oilers net and goaltender Stuart Skinner during action between the teams last season. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Steinbach-born author Ralph Friesen launches his new book Prosperity Ever, Depression Never: Steinbach in the 1930s at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location. The book collects interviews, diaries, articles, letters and more about the Manitoba city, highlighting how Steinbach evolved and thrived against all odds.
Today’s must-read
A specialized police unit tasked with locating and arresting a list of criminals loose in Manitoba has apprehended a new suspect nearly every day since it launched, placing hundreds of violent offenders behind bars.
“Offenders who find themselves on this list are responsible for homicides, aggravated assaults, firearms offences and crimes that, quite frankly, caused immeasurable suffering and hardship,” Winnipeg Police Service Insp. Jennifer McKinnon said Tuesday, lauding the success of the Manitoba integrated violent offender apprehension unit.
The unit, which pairs officers from the WPS and Manitoba RCMP, has arrested 480 people since May 2023. It includes 12 officers (six from each agency) who target violent and prolific offenders, including suspects in serious and violent crimes and people wanted on outstanding warrants, McKinnon said. Tyler Searle has the story.
RCMP Inspector Shawn Pike and WPS Inspector Jennifer McKinnon speak about the Manitoba Integrated Violent Offenders Apprehension Unit (MIVOAU). (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
At the University of Manitoba’s Environmental Conversation Lab, Stéphane McLachlan’s team is very much tuned into the principle of the school’s new five-year strategic research plan that calls for championing research by, for and with Indigenous peoples.
Among other things, it’s built a free digital surveying tool (Our Data Indigenous) that’s being used by more than 30 Indigenous communities for all sorts of data collection — from moose populations to surveying community desires regarding a proposed recreation centre.
The digital app adheres to the First Nations principle of OPAC (ownership, control, access and possession of data). Martin Cash has more here.
Ashley Wolfe (from left), a recent graduate; Becky Filopoulos, co-ordinator at the Environmental Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba; and Stéphane McLachlan, professor and co-ordinator of the Environmental Conservation Lab. (Martin Cash / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 9, 1942: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, the federal government announced it would place fetters on German POWs beginning the next day unless Germany could provide convincing proof it had not placed manacles on Canadians captured at Dieppe. In France, more than 100 U.S. bombers joined one of the biggest sweeps over the country in the war, striking targets in the Lille area. The Winnipeg Winter Club building was sold to the Canadian government for use as a naval training centre. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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