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Patches of fog with a mix of sun and cloud, and a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. Expected high is 20 C with a low of 10.
What’s happening today
In Ottawa, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is set to table dental-care legislation. The bill would allow the government to send cheques to low- and-middle income families to help pay for their children’s oral health services.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
It was exactly 10:59 a.m. local time Monday, and all along the barricades that snaked away from Westminster Abbey, the first hymn of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral began piping on the loudspeakers, broadcast to a crowd of thousands that lined the route, waiting to catch a glimpse of her casket. As the hymn’s first notes sounded, the crowd, which until then had murmured along at a lighthearted hum, fell into a stark silence. Their faces changed. Their smiles faded and gazes drifted away: grief, for those who felt it, but also a sense of something shifting. Melissa Martin is in London and files this report.
Soldiers from the Grenadier Guards at the Committal Service for The Queen held at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on Monday. (Kirsty O’Connor / Pool photo via The Associated Press)
On the bright side
The former rector of Holy Trinity Anglican Church on Graham Avenue, Cathy Campbell, and her successor, Andrew Rampton, are on a mission to green up the area along Graham from the old Bay building to Main Street. “I was tired of looking out at parking lots,” says Campbell. “’Wouldn’t a park, with a garden and trees, be nice?’ I could almost see it in my mind.” John Longhurst has the story.
Cathy Campbell (left) and her successor as rector at Holy Trinity, Andrew Rampton. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Scientists studying the sounds sperm whales make to communicate say the differences between the sounds made by different whale groups are evidence of “non-human culture” and provide a way for groups to mark cultural identity.
As highly social animals, sperm whales live in small family groups called clans. (Handout / Mauricio Cantor / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 19, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the government in Prague was vehemently opposed to French-British proposals to split Czechoslovakian territory in an attempt to appease German chancellor Adolf Hitler; Czechoslovkia was reportedly appealing to Soviet Russia for support to avoid ceding its Sudetenland territory to Germany. Poland reinforced its troops along the Czechoslovakian border. Hitler was set to meet British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and demand full concession to his demands regarding seizing the Sudetenland. Search our archives for more here.
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