Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness, with showers, at times heavy, beginning late this morning. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. Amount 15 to 25 mm. Wind from the south at 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 late this afternoon. High 14 C. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Mark Carney is welcoming the world’s investors to Toronto on Monday for a high-stakes summit aimed at attracting new investment to Canada.
Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are arriving for Canada’s first-ever investment summit in Toronto to get a look at major projects in various stages of development. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Harlan James Edward Fourre would have turned 35 on Sunday.
But instead of celebrating his birthday, Fourre’s father organized a sombre walk through downtown Winnipeg to commemorate his son and the many others who have died of fentanyl poisoning.
Three and a half years ago, Harlan Fourre took a recreational drug he believed was ecstasy but turned out to contain fentanyl, which killed him, said his father Joseph Fourre, a Red River Métis citizen, actor and filmmaker.
“Had he known that fentanyl was in that recreational drug, he would have stuck with his words of ‘no thanks, I’m good.’ I’m sure of it. But because it was hidden, he was lied to — he had no idea,” Fourre said in an interview ahead of Sunday’s walk. Marsha Mcleod has the story.
Joseph Foure speaks to participants at the Fentanyl Awareness Day Walk on Sunday. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
Tim Campbell loves dogs. He loves them so much that as soon he retired from his job at Panasonic Canada in early 2024 he began volunteering in earnest at the Winnipeg Humane Society (WHS).
He’d started his voluntary career five years prior with another local dog rescue organization. The work was rewarding, he says but the call-outs were unpredictable.
He was looking for a voluntary role which had a bit more structure to it, something he could build a routine around, while spending time with the animals he truly adores. AV Kitching has more here.
Tim Campbell with two-year-old Moira Rose at the Winnipeg Humane Society. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 14, 1932: The Manitoba Free Press reported that the airplane American Nurse had been sighted on its non-stop flight from New York to Rome by a steamship at sea. Winnipeg boxer Frankie Battaglia acquitted himself well at the Amphitheatre rink, beating Chicago’s “Tiger” Roy Williams.
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