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Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Wind from the south at 20 km/h gusting to 40, increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning then diminishing to 20 gusting to 40 late this afternoon. High 19 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
From Sept. 23-27, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is hosting a week of workshops, gatherings and educational programming to inform students on the history of Indigenous people across Canada.
Today’s must-read
A new study out of northern Manitoba is helping to make the case for Indigenous-led conservation amidst a global biodiversity crisis, putting the spotlight on Canada’s unique abundance of birds.
North America’s bird population has declined by nearly three billion in the last 50 years, according to the National Audubon Society. But within the 50,000 square kilometres of boreal forest and subarctic tundra that form the Seal River watershed’s proposed protected area, surveyors have found more than 100 bird species — far more than have ever been documented in the region.
“The total number was pretty astounding,” Jeff Wells, vice-president of Audubon’s boreal conservation program, said in an interview. “It just continues to make the point of how special and important this watershed is.” Julia-Simone Rutgers has the story.
The lesser yellowlegs is considered a threatened species. It’s estimated the population has declined by 60 to 80 per cent in the last 40 years. (Michael Riccio photo)
On the bright side
Talk about a buzzer beater. When Carrissa Reyes registered her then-seven-year-old son to play basketball through the Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association in 2019, the team was in desperate need of a coach.
Reyes figured someone else would volunteer, but when no one did, and the convenor messaged parents to let them know the team would be disbanded unless they found a coach by the next day, Reyes stepped in. Aaron Epp has more here.
Carrissa Reyes is a coach in the Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association community league. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 23, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ottawa, a complete list of the men scheduled to attempt the first trans-Canada flight was announced by the Air Board. Canada and the Soviet Union were at a trade impasse, as Canada refused to guarantee that Russian gold shipped to Canada to pay for goods would be protected from any other claims against the Russian government. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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