Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm late this afternoon. Wind from the west at 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 23 C. Humidex 30. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
• Bria Fernandes’ solo show, Things Left Unsaid, is on view now at Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg. Jen Zoratti has a preview of the exhibition.
• Winnipeg Jewish Theatre presents Job at the Berney Theatre. Tonight’s show kicks off at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available at wjt.ca. Ben Waldman has the details on the performance.
Today’s must-read
A man with a prior conviction for drunk driving is accused of being impaired while behind the wheel in a high-speed collision that killed two people on Kenaston Boulevard Saturday night.
Winnipeg Police Service traffic officers were called to the vicinity of Kenaston and Enterprise Drive around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, where they found a 31-year-old man dead and a 25-year-old woman seriously injured, police spokesman Const. Pat Saydak said Monday.
“Two people are dead because of an impaired driver,” said Saydak.
Paramedics rushed the woman to hospital, in critical condition, but she later died. Erik Pindera and Scott Billeck have the story.
Police spokesman Const. Pat Saydak (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Psychology Prof. Gillian Sandstrom was a lonely graduate student in Toronto when she began what she calls “a tiny, tiny micro-relationship.”
She and a woman who ran a hotdog stand on her way to university around 2007 would wave hello and smile at each other. Their interactions were so small that Sandstrom uses air quotes to even describe them as a “relationship.”
And yet “it really meant something much bigger than it seemed like it should, and it made me feel like I belonged there,” said Sandstrom.
Sandstrom is now among a group of academics and activists who are pushing the benefits of talking and interacting with strangers, in contrast to the years when young Canadians in particular were told instead of their dangers.
They say that even brief social interactions with strangers are beneficial to mental health and lead to feelings of belonging, in a push for connectivity that has led to a national campaign by Toronto-based organization GenWell. The Canadian Press has more here.
People rest at Sankofa Square in Toronto, on Friday. (Sammy Kogan / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Sept. 16, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an order was issued to arrest Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German minority’s “little fuehrer,” on a charge of treason. British prime minister Neville Chamberlain was set to return to London after meeting with German chancellor Adolf Hitler which was characterized as an “open and extensive exchange of opinion.” The U.S. treasury disclosed an “unprecedented flood of money” to the country was creating a huge reservoir of potential purchasing power for European governments which may be needed for food or other supplies in case of war.
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