Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, clearing late this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 24 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Six Indigenous storytellers are sharing new works with local audiences this week through Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s Pimootayowin: A Festival of New Work. Tonight at 7. p.m. at the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre is Redwood Woman by Andrea Friesen; admission is free. Ben Waldman has a full preview here.
Ian Ross (standing) introduces Martha Troian’s reading of her new work, The Creatives. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Two foster parents in north Winnipeg are accused of abusing children in their care, including one who was in critical condition Tuesday, in a case that has Manitoba’s children’s advocate seeking answers.
A 25-year-old foster mother allegedly assaulted two of four kids who lived at her home, with life-threatening injuries being inflicted to the child who was critically hurt, police said in a news release.
“It’s devastating news when we hear a child has been seriously injured. It’s equally devastating when it involves a foster parent,” said Sherry Gott, Manitoba’s advocate for children and youth, whose office is conducting a review of the situation. Chris Kitching has the story.
Sherry Gott, the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone.
The new find was possibly seven metres long and hailed from a mysterious group of dinosaurs called megaraptorans. They prowled across what’s now South America, Australia and parts of Asia, splitting off into different species over millions of years. The Associated Press has more here.
An artist’s illustration of the newly discovered dinosaur Joaquinraptor casali with an ancient crocodile relative’s front leg in its mouth. (Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 24, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a nine-year effort by a Winnipeg Mennonite minister to get his wife and children out of Russia failed when he was stopped by guards at the United Nations building in New York as he attempted to present a petition to Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev. Meanwhile, western diplomats speculated Kruschev’s appetite for power in Africa would cause him to tear out the heart of the UN organization. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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