Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. A mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind becoming north at 20 km/h this morning. A high of 18 with a UV index of 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Le Burger Week is on now for its annual festival of patty-based creativity.
Approximately 140 Manitoba restaurants have signed up to participate in the 14th edition of the national weeklong competition, until Sept. 7.
Burger fans can click here to find a list of local participants and sign up to vote for their favourite creations.
Winnipeg food truck PVG’s Street Eats will be serving up The Wrangler during this year’s Le Burger Week. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
A Norwegian hiker who walked hundreds of kilometres across the Canadian north was living his dream before he died crossing a river near Hudson Bay, sparking a search that “wove connections across” First Nations and touched the hearts of his grieving family.
“Words cannot describe how grateful we are for all you have done,” Henriette Skjottelvik said Monday, speaking to a room of more than 100 Indigenous dignitaries and friends gathered in memory of her older brother, Steffen Skjottelvik.
Tyler Searle reports.
Madeline Hunter, left, and her mother Jeanie Hunter embrace the parents as family and friends gather at a memorial for Steffen Skjottelvik at Chapel Lawn Funeral Home in Headingley on Monday. (John Woods / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 2, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Winnipeg pilot, Carl Ross, had a close call in Spain when flying a newsreel plane and was shot at by rebel anti-aircraft guns near Burgos; more than half the country was reportedly in the hands of insurgent forces. The Alberta legislature passed the Social Credit Act. In New York, critics praised Winnipeg soprano Brenda Bennett’s performance in the D’Oyly Carte Opera company’s production of Pirates of Penzance. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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