Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers this morning. Showers beginning this afternoon. High 17 C. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Twenty-three new works by New York-born, Manitoba-raised visual artist Katharine Bruce will be on view in Prayers and Secrets at Soul Gallery, 65 Albert St., until Oct. 4.
Katharine Bruce’s Magic in the Night (2025) is one of the paintings included in Prayers and Secrets. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The NDP is being accused of failing to live up to its commitment to consult organizations that lobby on behalf of seniors about the role and powers of the incoming seniors advocate, whose office is expected to open Nov. 1.
The advocate, who will operate independently of government, will advise it about policies and programs related to home care and health care, for example. The name of the person who will assume the role is still under wraps.
“We don’t want a toothless seniors advocate,” said Tom Simms, who is involved in a coalition of Manitoba seniors groups. The office should have the same investigative power as the provincial advocate for children and youth, he said. Carol Sanders has the story.
Tom Simms (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world.
Many of the specimens found at a sandstone quarry in Ecuador date to 112 million years ago, said Fabiany Herrera, curator of fossil plants at the Field Museum in Chicago and co-author of the study published Thursday in the journal Communications Earth and Environment. The Associated Press has more here.
A Diptera Nematocera fly trapped in a Cretaceous-era amber sample discovered in Ecuador. (Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 19, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that four foreign students out of 80 at Brandon University had their scholarships cancelled in the wake of student unrest and demonstrations at the institute; the president said the money, which came from the Friends of Brandon University fund, supported by local residents and graduates, had sharply fallen after student protests. In Ottawa, prime minister Pierre Trudeau told Parliament that Canada would not fail to discharge its obligations to NATO. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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