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Clearing early this morning. Wind from the southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 increasing to 40 gusting to 60 near noon. High 29 C, Humidex 34, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The In-Between, a solo exhibition by Winnipeg artist Laura Lewis, features larger-than-life oil paintings of queer Winnipeg artists, and opens today at Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, 12-4 p.m. Jen Zoratti has a preview here.
Laura Lewis considers her portrait subjects collaborators. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
The Pluck of Water opens today and runs until Nov. 17 at Galerie Buhler Gallery at St. Boniface Hospital. This group exhibition curated by Winnipeg-based artist and writer hannah_g features works by KC Adams, Alexis Auréoline, Jaime Black-Morsette, Sarah Crawley, Chantal Dupas, Laila Fazal, Noëlla Gauthier, Ariel Gordon, Ted Howorth, Jennine Krauchi, Mathew Lacosse, Erika MacPherson, Tracy Peters, Chuckwudubem Ukaigwe, katherena vermette and Diane Whitehouse.
Visitors are encouraged to contact the gallery ahead of time or make an appointment by emailing tgadd@sbgh.mb.ca. Visit galeriebuhlergallery.ca/ for more information.
Today’s must-read
The City of Winnipeg could provide nearly $40 million in grants over the next 25 years to support a long-awaited $650-million proposed redevelopment of Portage Place.
A proposed sale agreement released Wednesday details a long-awaited step toward True North Real Estate Development buying the beleaguered mall to create a 1.2-million-square-foot mixed-used space in its place.
Mayor Scott Gillingham supports the call for the city to provide $39.7-million worth of grants to support the project. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
A proposed sale agreement with True North Real Estate Development would be a step toward creating a 1.2-million-square-foot mixed-used space in what is now Portage Place mall. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A lecture hall full of first-year veterinary students in Hungary eagerly took their places for the first animal anatomy lesson of their academic careers, when two full-grown horses clopped inside and joined the class.
The rector at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, Dr. Péter Sótonyi, coaxed one of the animals onto a riser at the front of the hall and used a stick of chalk to draw onto the horse — from head to hooves — where its bones, organs and muscles could be found inside.
“This is their very first lesson, and the first time should be with a living animal,” Sótonyi said of his students. ”They shouldn’t first meet with a carcass, because they want to heal animals. They want to make animals better.” The Associated Press has the story.
Dr. Peter Sotonyi, rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, Hungary, shows the tongue of a horse during an anatomy lecture for first-year students, using a live horse. (Denes Erdos / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 12, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a pharmacist from St. Pierre, Man., said he had invited Phillippe Rossillon, the head of France’s high commission for the defence and expansion of the French language, to Manitoba as a private guest; Rossillon had been labelled by prime minister Pierre Trudeau as an agitator for the French government among French-speaking Manitobans. In Ottawa, labour and management negotiators for 1,300 striking Lakehead grain handlers hammered out a settlement in a night-long bargaining session. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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