Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and a risk of a thunderstorm. Expected high is 28 C, humidex 32 and UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Local post-punk quartet Fold Paper plays at the Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.; doors open at 8 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Fold Paper (Tom Elvers photo)
Today’s must-read
In a sudden reversal late Thursday afternoon, MPI changed lanes on its decision to issue driver’s licences to some high school students without subjecting them to a road test. MPI attributed Thursday’s surprising turn to an “overwhelming response from the driver education community” that allowed the corporation to hire a sufficient number of outside instructors on contract to cross the picket line in order to test all Class 5 applicants. Malak Abas has the story.
MPI board chair Ward Keith (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The first giant pandas born in Germany celebrated their fourth birthday Thursday as the Berlin Zoo prepares to send them to China, a journey that was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pit and Paule, who also are known by the Chinese names Meng Xiang und Meng Yuan, have been a star attraction at the zoo since their birth in 2019. On Thursday, keepers presented them with an ice cake made with apples, carrots and beetroot, and a side serving of snow. The Associated Press reports.
Pandas Pit and Paule eat a cake made of ice cream, vegetables and fruits to celebrate their fourth birthday, at the Berlin Zoo Thursday. (Bernd von Jutrczenka / dpa via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 1, 1985: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a local nutritionist warned some private weight-loss clinics in the city recommended unhealthy diets and sold overpriced pills to supplement low-calorie regimens, and said lack of licensing for such clinics was also a problem. Transport Canada was considering closing a number of air traffic control towers, including one at Brandon airport. Artist Gordon Reeves worked on his sculpture, “Justice,” soon to be completed outside the new Law Courts building on York Avenue. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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