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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSLiquor Mart in Madison Square.
Liquor loot: Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries says thieves have stolen approximately $1.6 million of alcohol from its stores in the past year, Ryan Thorpe reports. Security guards at Liquor Marts have been told not to intervene in thefts. READ MORE
‘An all-time low’: More than two-thirds of people polled are against reopening Portage and Main to pedestrians, the highest level since Probe Research started tracking the issue years ago. “There really is no demographic group where you will find a majority of people favouring the reopening,” says Probe’s president, Scott MacKay. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: After spectacular thunderstorms last night and early this morning, which included hail Wednesday, today will be cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm in the late afternoon. The high is 19 C, with wind from the southwest at 10 km/h shifting to 20 km/h from the north early this afternoon.
What’s happening today
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESMayor Brian Bowman will launch his bid for re-election in the upcoming civic election this Thursday. The mayor has suggested that he won’t take part in the much-anticipated Oct. 19 luncheon debate hosted by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce which has only invited what it terms front-runners in the 2018 campaign.
Bowman begins: Mayor Brian Bowman will launch his re-election campaign late this afternoon at the RBC Convention Centre. Meanwhile, he said Wednesday he won’t participate in a debate hosted by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Sold-out show: Erin Lebar has a preview of tonight’s Metallica concert. More than 16,000 fans will pack Bell MTS Place for the show, which is expected to surpass the arena’s attendance record set at the band’s last stop here in 2009. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Assiniboine Valley Railway president Len LaRue (left) and AVR member Vic St. Germain clean up after a shed housing custom-made dinner tabletops and Christmas decorations burned down in what railway members believe was a deliberately set fire. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Tiny train tradition: A dining experience abroad a tiny train has been cancelled after equipment for the annual event was destroyed in a blaze. The president of the Assiniboine Valley Railway club says he believes the shed fire was intentionally set. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Witness on widow: A witness Wednesday testified Aurea Vazquez-Rijos, who is on trial in Puerto Rico for the slaying of her husband, says she didn’t show any sign of alarm after he was attacked. Adam Anhang, a Winnipeg native, was slain in 2005. Claude Adams reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Sept. 13, 1951: Army engineering experts estimated 25 pounds of explosive were used to blow up a Quebec bridge that claimed several lives; inflation was expected to be the topic of conversation at a NATO meeting; the Free Press continued a series on professional gamblers who were found guilty of repeated offences but given only light fines; Hon. James Langstaff Bowman, former Conservative member of parliament for Dauphin and former speaker of the House of Commons died. READ MORE
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