Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with local smoke this afternoon. Wind rom the south at 20 km/h. High 30 C, Humidex 34, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Award-winning Winnipeg author katherena vermette launches her timely new novel, Real Ones, in conversation with Shelagh Rogers, at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location, starting at 7 p.m. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
Métis author katherena vermette’s latest novel, Real Ones, focuses on two sisters whose mother was a pretendian. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Makeshift classrooms — including a library set up in a corridor, which one mother likened to “hallway education” — have Manitoba families fed up about the pace of new school planning to address enrolment pressures.
Elementary students in West St. Paul and Winnipeg’s Island Lakes suburb are among those who started the school year in an unconventional classroom.
“I was floored by what I saw … we have hallway medicine, and now we have hallway education,” said Corrie Hucul-Dudley, a mother of two at West St. Paul School. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
West St. Paul School staff have moved bookshelves into a first-floor hallway area to accommodate the conversion of the elementary building’s library into two Grade 3/4 classrooms for 2024-25. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Orange, blue, calico, two-toned and … cotton-candy coloured? Those are all the hues of lobsters that have showed up in fishers’ traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year. The funky-coloured crustaceans inspire headlines that trumpet their rarity, with particularly uncommon baby-blue-tinted critters described by some as “cotton-candy coloured” often estimated at 1 in 100 million.
A recent wave of these curious coloured lobsters in Maine, New York, Colorado and beyond has scientists asking just how atypical the discoloured arthropods really are. As is often the case in science, it’s complicated. The Associated Press has more here.
A two-toned lobster in a marine sciences lab at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 10, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that bloody street fighting between communist and anti-communist Germans in divided, blockaded Berlin could stymie the four-power negotiations over the city’s future. In Manitoba, a preliminary hearing in the killing of the manager of the Park Hotel was adjourned for a week as the defence counsel for the accused sought additional testimony from a doctor. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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