Your forecast
There is a fog advisory in effect for Winnipeg, but the fog is expected to dissipate this morning. Increasing cloudiness this morning, then a 30 percent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm late this morning and this afternoon. Wind becoming southeast at 30 km/h early this morning. High 25 C, Humidex 32, UV index 4 or moderate.
Thousands were without power Tuesday morning after thunderstorms swept through southern Manitoba, knocking down overhead lines and bringing a surge of floodwater that swamped some communities. Tyler Searle has more here.
Steinbach was hit with 155 mm of rain on Tuesday. (Greg Vandermeulen / The Carillon)
What’s happening today
Winnipeg poet Angeline Schellenberg launches her latest poetry collection, Mondegreen Riffs, published by Winnipeg’s At Bay Press, at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew defended the NDP caucus’s decision to oust one of its MLAs while the Progressive Conservatives demanded an investigation Tuesday into his allegations the premier is a workplace bully.
Fort Garry MLA Mark Wasyliw was kicked out of caucus Monday for having a business relationship with a lawyer who represents convicted sex offender Peter Nygard.
Kinew told reporters Tuesday the NDP caucus had made the “right decision” and insisted Wasyliw was given a choice to be part of the NDP “team” or be affiliated with the convicted sex attacker and go with a law firm that is “making money” from him. Carol Sanders has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew defends the NDP caucus’s decision to oust MLA Mark Wasyliw at the Manitoba Legislative Building on Tuesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 18, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that city hall was buzzing with reports that premier Duff Roblin had settled on a plan of gradual amaglamation for Greater Winnipeg as a solution to the problems of metro government. In Ottawa, over protests from the Prairie provinces, the Royal Commission on Railways ruled it would investigate the low Crow’s Nest Pass freight rates on grain. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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