Your forecast
Sunny. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 17 C. UV index 4 or moderate.
Farmers are dealing with poor harvest conditions owing to the high amount of rain this month.
Brandon had received 74.7 millimetres of rain by Sept. 15, a spokesperson for Environment and Climate Change Canada said Wednesday. The amount is equal to 173 per cent of average rainfall for Brandon.
The wet conditions are causing crop loss and delays in harvesting, several Westman farmers said this week. The Brandon Sun‘s Connor McDowell has more here.
Farmer Jake Ayre, vice-president of Keystone Agricultural Producers, uses a moisture meter to check the moisture content in harvested oats at his farm near Minto. (Tim Smith / Brandon Sun)
What’s happening today
📕 A new book exploring the dialogue surrounding the Indigenous experience in residential schools, and those who downplay or try to discredit the findings, launches at 7 p.m. tonight at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location.
Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism was edited by University of Manitoba professors Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair (who is also a Free Press columnist), and published earlier this month by University of Manitoba Press.
You can also read a review here.
In this May 2026 photo, Brandon Residential School survivor Marge Prince looks for her own name among the orange flags that hold the names of 3,000 of known children who attended the school over the years. (Matt Goerzen / The Brandon Sun files)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba is training more family doctors in emergency medicine to help strengthen the pipeline of emergency physicians for communities across the province.
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced Wednesday that the University of Manitoba is increasing the number of annual training seats to 17 from 11. The family medicine enhanced skills program provides physicians with an additional year of specialized emergency medicine training after completing a family medicine residency.
“Emergency physicians do incredibly important work for Manitobans and we need more of them,” Asagwara said at a news conference at University of Manitoba’s Health Sciences Centre campus. Carol Sanders has the story.
Tobi Morakinyo, a resident in the College of Family Physicians of Canada emergency medicine training program, has expanded her skills by working in northern Manitoba communities. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 17, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker proposed that the Commonwealth prime ministers’ conference invite the world’s major trading nations, including all members of the Commonwealth and the European Common Market, to confer on trading problems arising whether Britain joined the ECM or not. The conciliatory move was seen as an acknowledgement of a win for British prime minister Harold Macmillan, who was pushing for Britain’s entry to the ECM on its own terms.
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