Your forecast
Partly cloudy with a high of 18 C and a low of 3 C tonight with a risk of frost.
What’s happening today
The provincial election campaign enters its second week. NDP leader Wab Kinew is expected to make an announcement at Victoria Hospital in Winnipeg later today with Dave McPhail of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. PC leader Heather Stefanson is scheduled to make an announcement with PC candidates in downtown Winnipeg at 10 a.m.
The lawyers defending two of the most prominent organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protests are expected to make their case today to block nine Ottawa residents and business representatives from taking the stand, reports The Canadian Press.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg’s arts groups are either catching their breath after an exciting summer of performances or sighing in relief they survived it all.
Either way, the most important fact is the companies are still breathing and ready to act, sing, dance and create another day. Alan Small writes on the summer festival season.
Nearly 75,000 music lovers attended the Winnipeg Folk Festival at Birds Hill Park in July, the organization’s second-largest turnout since the first gathering in 1974. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 11, 1917: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Regina, MP W.J. Hanna, who was also federal government food controller, said the order prohibiting the use of canned vegetables in the Prairie provinces would be rescinded. Russian troops took the offensive against German forces in Segevold, 32 miles north of Riga. In Washington, D.C., it was announced that grain elevators in the U.S. would operate under new restrictions, and none would be allowed to store wheat or rye for more than 30 days. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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