Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud. High 24 C. Humidex 29. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
📕 Bestselling local fantasy author Nisha J. Tuli, launches Storm Caller tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location. The book is the followup to Tuli’s Storm Breaker in the romantasy series of the same name, described as “Divergent meets The Cruel Prince.” Tuli will be joined in conversation by Vancouver Island author Demi Winters (The Ashen series).
Today’s must-read
Former city councillor and provincial cabinet minister Kevin Klein says he will soon enter the race to become Winnipeg’s next mayor — prompting an immediate war of words with incumbent Scott Gillingham.
Gillingham quickly responded to the announcement by calling Klein “toxic” and a “fixer” for Peter Nygard.
Klein said Tuesday he had decided not to enter the mayoral race weeks ago due to an unspecified health scare that required surgery. After recovering, he decided to run.
“The future of the city means a lot to me. I believe that we have so much untapped potential that I felt I should do something about it,” said Klein, noting he felt compelled to run because key city issues, such as perceptions of public safety in the downtown, have grown worse over the past four years. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
Former Progressive Conservative provincial cabinet minister Kevin Klein (Mikaela MacKezie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Don Robinson knows first-hand that many people don’t get sober by themselves.
In late June 1984, Robinson downed his last drink. His recovery began at Pritchard House in Winnipeg’s North End, a 22-bed treatment facility run by the Native Addictions Council of Manitoba.
“I didn’t get sober by myself,” said Robinson, a member of Bunibonibee Cree Nation who now works in grief and trauma counselling and traditional knowledge as an elder at Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc.
More than four decades later, Robinson was back at the council on Monday, crowded into a room at its newly renovated treatment centre at 160 Salter St. — a place he once turned to for help and where he helps others now.
“Part of my sobriety is giving back, giving 12-step talks,” Robinson said. “I tell them, ‘In order to sober up, you need to start a new life. That old life doesn’t work anymore.” Scott Billeck has more here.
Don Robinson speaks at the grand re-opening ceremony for the Native Addictions Council of Manitoba’s renovated space on Salter Street Tuesday. (Mikaela MacKezie / Free Press )
On this date
On Sept. 2, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Fort Garry police pulled the body of a five-year-old girl from the Red River after a 12-hour search; she was found in eight feet of water almost directly behind the house she had lived in for only three days. Winnipeggers saw the warmest August in 75 years, with the mean temperature six degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
Today’s front page
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