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Increasing cloudiness, with a 60 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 24 C. Humidex 27. UV index 4 or moderate.
A new report looking at the future of Canada’s weather service suggests the country needs a co-ordinated flash flood warning system and says European partnerships could be deepened as the United States cuts climate- and weather-related funding.
The independent assessment prepared for Environment and Climate Change Canada says significant cuts to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threaten a wide range of weather and water monitoring in Canada, from the Arctic to the Great Lakes. The Canadian Press reports.
A truck is seen abandoned in floodwater following a major rain event in Halifax in 2023. (Darren Calabrese / The Canadian Press files)
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Tonight at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, award-winning Swampy Cree author David A. Robertson launches the last book in his middle-grade Misewa Saga, The World’s End, at 7 p.m., where he’ll be joined in conversation by Rosanna Deerchild. The wildly popular series concludes with Eli, Morgan and Emily, freed from captivity, needing to protect Misewa from the dangers of colonization.
David A. Robertson (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
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A massive redevelopment of the St. Boniface Hospital emergency department is just weeks from opening but it’s not clear how Winnipeg’s health authority will staff the expanded facility.
The project — which will triple the size of the emergency department — was slated for completion next week, but was “postponed due to some outstanding deficiencies.” Instead, it is now expected to open Oct. 2, the hospital’s director of health services said in an email to staff Monday.
The delay is due to “behind-the-scenes work” that will “not interfere with continued walk-throughs or orientations in the new area,” Erin James told staff.
The redeveloped facility will open amid rising emergency wait times in Winnipeg and health-care staffing challenges across the province — including a physician shortage that left Manitoba with the second-lowest number of doctors per capita in Canada last year. Tyler Searle has the story.
The redevelopment of St. Boniface Hospital’s emergency department will triple its size. (Phil Hossack / Free Press files)
On the bright side
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday.
They stressed that in-depth analysis is needed of the sample gathered there by Perseverance — ideally in labs on Earth — before reaching any conclusions.
While acknowledging the latest analysis “certainly is not the final answer,” NASA’s science mission chief Nicky Fox said it’s ”the closest we’ve actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars.” The Associated Press has more here.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover (NASA via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 11, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Dr. Sidney Smith, former president of the University of Manitoba, would be appointed secretary of state for external affairs in the Diefenbaker government. In Moscow, the Soviet foreign minister charged Turkey with concentrating troops on Syria’s borders; sources in Damascus said Syria’s civilian resistance organization was resuming immediate operations — it had been set up a year earlier to mobilize citizens and provide them with military training. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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