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What’s happening today
The Reel Pride Festival begins Tuesday and runs until Saturday at the Gas Station Arts Centre.
Longtime drag queen and trans pioneer Oliv Howe is the subject of The Empress of Vancouver, screening Saturday at Reel Pride. (Supplied)
In Toronto, Arguments in the Toronto sexual-assault case against former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard are expected to begin today. The Canadian Press reports.
Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, the court clerk, Nygard’s lawyer Brian Greenspan, Justice Robert Goldstein and jurors in a court illustration in Toronto, last week. (Alexandra Newbould / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Manitobans are split on whether to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of at least two Indigenous women — an issue that has become a hot-button topic on the campaign trail. A Free Press-CTV poll conducted by Probe Research found that 47 per cent of Manitobans support searching the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, while 45 per cent are opposed to it. Eight per cent said they were unsure. Kevin Rollason reports.
On the bright side
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 100,000 kilometres out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. The Associated Press reports.
This is the first asteroid sample-return mission in which Canada has participated — and it entitles the country to some of the space rocks. The Canadian Press has that story.
The asteroid Bennu seen from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 26, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported the Winnipeg Grain Exchange was offering $1,000 to anyone who could identify the person who sent a telephone message the the Canadian Pacific telegraph office, meant to be sent to Chicago, concerning the finances of the Canadian Wheat Pool; the spurious message could have had a serious effect on wheat prices had authorities not recieved it via private channels and had time to issue a denial of its contents before markets opened. Mrs. Victor Bruce, an Englishwoman who learned to fly seven weeks earlier, embarked on a flight in a Gypsy Moth two-seater plane to either Japan or Cape Town, South Africa; her true destination was a closely guarded secret. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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