Your forecast
Showers beginning this morning with a high of 15 C and a low of 13.
What’s happening today
The Eagles take the stage at the Canada Life Centre tonight at 8 p.m., and will play the album Hotel California, from beginning to end, to kick off an evening of the band’s classics.
Today’s must-read
The lineup of people in London waiting to see the late Queen Elizabeth’s casket as she lay in state began queueing Wednesday, and within hours had swelled to jaw-dropping proportions. It is difficult to estimate how many will pass through Westminster Hall over four days of viewing, but it will be well into the hundreds of thousands. Melissa Martin is in London and has the full story.
People queue to pay their respects to late Queen Elizabeth II, whose body is lying in state at Westminster Hall in London. (David Josek / The Associated Press)
On the bright side
Many in Lebanon had reason to celebrate when Mayyas, an all-female Lebanese dance troupe, was victorious on America’s Got Talent, winning US$1 million and a headlining show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The dancers will also be awarded Order of Merit medallions by their country’s president upon their return home.
Host Terry Crews, left, in suit, with members of the female Lebanese dance troupe Mayyas after winning ‘America’s Got Talent,’ Wednesday. (Trae Patton / NBC via The Associated Press)
Against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there are oases of camaraderie such as at a hostel in Kyiv, where reporter Melissa Martin got to know a German painter named Paul, who not only painted portraits of his fellow guests, but listened to the stories they had to share.
Taking up four floors of a stately Kyiv building, the hostel has become almost its own village in the midst of the capital, housing a frayed family of sorts. (Melissa Martin / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 16, 1977: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the province’s Public Utilities Board granted a rate increase that affected 14,000 customers of Inter-City Gas in rural Manitoba. In a federal cabinet shuffle, Jean Chrétien was sworn in as the first French-Canadian finance minister. Ottawa would recognize the first quasi-sovereign Indigenous nations within five to 10 years, predicted the president of the National Indian Brotherhood. Search our archives for more here.
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