Your forecast
Cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of drizzle this morning and a 60 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. High 17 C. UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg author Catherine Hunter’s launch of the short-story collection Seeing You Home, originally slated to take place Sept. 10, was postponed due to illness, and will instead take place tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location — and still with fellow author Margaret Sweatman in conversation with Hunter. More information here.
Catherine Hunter (Leif Norman photo)
Today’s must-read
Winnipeggers can expect to see more police officers on and around buses, as police launch a new initiative to combat a surge in violent crime.
On Wednesday, Winnipeg Police Service announced a new “targeted safety strategy” for Winnipeg Transit.
“We’re going to be targeting people that get on the buses and choose to either perpetrate violence or (exhibit) disruptive anti-social behaviours … It’s not just a shotgun approach. We’re going to be looking at some of the hotspots, if you will, throughout the transit system,” WPS Supt. Brian Miln told media at a news conference. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
Transit users (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Amy Mann is one of the unlucky teenagers whose Grade 12 year was disrupted by COVID-19, over and over and over again.
Mann, now a 21-year-old, recalled feeling incredibly frustrated about Manitoba public health officials’ unclear explanations related to moving students in and out of remote learning in 2020-21.
“I didn’t understand why schools were staying closed when the evidence suggested there was no or limited transmission,” she told the Free Press. “And bars were open — that really upset me.”
Five years later, the high achiever is preparing to pack her bags for the U.K. to study the intersection of statistics, public health and the social sciences on a prestigious international scholarship.
Mann was named a 2025 Rhodes Scholar, and she’s the only born-and-raised Manitoban in the incoming cohort. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Newly-announced Rhodes scholar Amy Mann has a special research interest in applying mathematics and statistics to public health and the social sciences. (MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 18, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Prof. Harry Crowe had been offered a year’s pay as compensation in lieu of notice of his dismissal, on the condition he not sue the United College board of regents or its principal; the college’s principal Wilfred Lockhart was set to tell the students’ association the reasons for firing Crowe. U.S. state secretary John Foster Dulles declared the Chinese Communist campaign against Formosa posed “a grave threat with ominous implications.” Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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