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Mainly sunny with a high of 24 C and a UV index of 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Plume Winnipeg’s Thin Air/Livres en fête continues, running through to Sunday, Sept. 28 at venues throughout Winnipeg, and many of the events are free. (For more on the festival, see Ben Sigurdson’s preview here.)
Tonight at 7 p.m., Winnipeg novelist David Bergen launches his novel Days of Feasting and Rejoicing at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, where he’ll be joined in conversation by fellow local novelist Joan Thomas. The launch is part of Thin Air’s Signature Series of events.
David Bergen (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The University of Winnipeg’s financial situation has stabilized following 10 months of cutbacks on the downtown campus.
“We’re confident we’ll have a balanced budget this year, and we’re very happy about that,” said Todd Mondor, the U of W’s president and vice-chancellor
Maggie Macintosh has the story.
University of Winnipeg president Todd Mondor (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 22, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported a weekend storm over the British Isles was estimated to have caused $5,000,000 worth of damage. In New York, a professional high diver and parachute jumper died after diving 275 feet from a partially-constructed bridge over the Hudson River; a man described by police as the jumper’s manger was arrested on a technical charge of homicide. Conservative general organizer and former minister Neville Chamberlain said his government would introduce an emergency tariff — as Canada had done — if elected.
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