Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers. High today will be 14 C and a low of 1 tonight.
What’s happening today
This morning, Statistics Canada will release its newest census report focusing on housing prices across the country, and on Indigenous people, including population growth numbers and information about which languages are spoken at home.
Statistics Canada will release its latest 2021 census report on the housing landscape in Canada this morning. (Cole Burston / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
When Kildonan Long Term Care Home opened its doors more than 20 years ago, Pamela Sam was there to greet its first residents. But when the 72-year-old’s health took a turn for the worse and forced her off the job, the employer she dedicated so much of her life to turned its back and denied her employment benefits routinely provided to younger employees. Dean Pritchard has the story.
When his mom’s health took a turn for the worse, Sean Sam says her long-time employer denied her employment benefits routinely provided to younger employees. (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Adnan Syed, imprisoned for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee, walked out of court this week when Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn in Baltimore ordered Syed’s release after overturning his conviction. A true-crime podcast in 2014 reported on additional evidence, questioned the original verdict and highlighted chronic problems in the justice system, and in part led to prosecutors’ motion to vacate Syed’s conviction.
Adnan Syed, centre, whose legal saga spawned the hit podcast “Serial,” exits the Cummings Courthouse a free man after a judge overturned his 1999 murder conviction. (Jerry Jackson / The Baltimore Sun / The Associated Press files)
Long absent from India, where they died out seven decades ago, cheetahs are making a comeback. Eight of the big felines have been brought in from Namibia in a chartered cargo flight to Gwalior, in northern India, part of a plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the country.
A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. (Dirk Heinrich / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 21, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported all aircraft searching for a missing U.S. Navy plane were directed to concentrate their efforts within a 250-mile radius of Atikameg Lake, northeast of The Pas; the search was in its 10th day. A multi-province attempt to delay hearings on a railway application for freight-rate increases was fought by railways before the board of transport commissioners. In Winnipeg, a city alderman’s motion to make a five-dollar monthly wage increase for civic employees retroactive to Jan. 1 was defeated; the increase would remain retroactive only to July 1, 1948. Search our archives for more here.
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