Your forecast
Cloudy with a few showers beginning late this morning and risk of thunderstorms late this afternoon. High 20 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Jury selection in the sexual-assault case against Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard is set to begin this morning in a Toronto courtroom. The Canadian Press reports.
Peter Nygard in a courtroom sketch from 2022. (Alexandra Newbould / The Canadian Press files)
Longtime Winnipeg comic Jared Story records a live comedy album tonight at 8 p.m. at the Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St. Read Eva Wasney’s preview here; for ticket information, click here.
Jared Story (Dwayne Larson photo)
Today’s must-read
Wab Kinew and the New Democrats have opened up a commanding lead in the provincial election campaign, with almost half of Manitobans supporting them, putting a majority government within their reach with less than two weeks to go until voting day.
And in seat-rich Winnipeg, where 32 of the province’s 57 ridings are, the NDP’s lead is even more significant. Kevin Rollason has the story.
NDP Leader Wab Kinew (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age, from a riverbed site that sits above a waterfall in Zambia, that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood.
The construction is basic: a pair of overlapping logs, fitted together with a notch. It’s nearly half a million years old and provides a rare look at how ancient human relatives were working with wood and changing their environments, authors wrote in a study published Wednesday in Nature. The Associated Press reports.
An excavation team uncovers a wooden structure found on a riverbed near a waterfall in Zambia in 2019. (Larry Barham/University of Liverpool via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 21, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Farnborough, England, an experimental French aircraft crashed at an air show killing six people but narrowly missing thousands of spectators. In Ottawa, Parliament ordered Atomic Energy of Canada to halt construction on a $150-million intense neutron generator, the biggest federal scientific project ever proposed. The Free Press got an up-close look at the construction of the city’s newest skyscraper, the Richardson Building, at Portage and Main. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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