Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness, with 60 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon with a risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming south 50 gusting to 70 this morning, then diminishing to 30 gusting to 50 late this afternoon. High 26 C, Humidex 29, UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Neepawa has Margaret Laurence House, St. Boniface has Maison Gabrielle-Roy, and now Steinbach will pay tribute to the house where critically acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews grew up. A plaque honouring Toews’ work and career will be placed at the house where she grew up; those keen on seeing the plaque unveiled are to meet at the Public Brewhouse and Gallery in Steinbach (301 Main St.) at 7 p.m. The group will then take a short walk to the Brandt Street home, with a quick stop at Toews’ childhood home on First Street.
Following the unveiling, folks will reconvene at the Public for readings of Toews’ work by authors including Josiah Neufeld, Jonathan Dyck, Erin Unger, Armin Wiebe and Sarah Ens. Admission is free.
Andrew Unger holds a plaque commemorating novelist Miriam Toews. (Svjetlana Mlinarevic / The Carillon)
Today’s must-read
Two Winnipeg men have been charged just weeks apart with possessing sex dolls designed to look like children — a new trend raising alarms for law enforcement and child-protection advocates.
A 45-year-old Winnipeg man is charged with several offences after a package containing a sex doll was intercepted by border officers in Vancouver last month, the Winnipeg Police Service announced Thursday.
The WPS internet child exploitation (ICE) unit was notified by the Canada Border Services Agency that a package destined for a local address contained a sex doll “anatomically designed to appear to look like a prepubescent child.” Nicole Buffie has the story.
On the bright side
Perhaps it was fate that a man’s pickup truck got trapped in rising floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Francine not far from where Miles Crawford lives.
The 39-year-old off-duty emergency room nurse is professionally trained in saving lives — quickly — and that’s exactly what he did the moment he saw what was happening Wednesday night in his New Orleans neighborhood.
Crawford grabbed a hammer from his house and ran to the underpass where the truck was stuck, wading through swirling waist-high water to reach the driver. When he got there, he saw that the water was already up to the man’s head. There was no time to waste. The Associated Press has more here.
Two vehicle on Olive street are flooded during Hurricane Francine in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune via AP)
On this date
On Sept. 13, 1978: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, justice minister Otto Lang wanted the federal government to hold a referendum on capital punishment. Former Manitoba NDP leaders and Winnipeg officials defended their urban and development policies against charges they helped inflate Manitoba land prices in the early 1970s. Manitoba and Nova Scotia had the highest percentage of complications associated with therapeutic abortions in 1977. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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