Your forecast
Sunny. Wind from the south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 increasing to 50 gusting to 70 late this morning. High 30 C, Humidex 32, UV index 4 or moderate.
A new rapid analysis says climate change made August heat waves over some of Canada’s most northern — and rapidly warming — regions at least 10 times more likely.
Environment and Climate Change Canada says the heat waves in Inuvik, N.W.T., as well as Kitikmeot and Kivalliq, Nvt., generated peak temperatures between 12 and 13 degrees above normal, and were made “far more likely” due to climate change. The Canadian Press has more here.
People try to beat the 30 C heat in Montreal in June. (Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
Miss Shakespeare opens at Winnipeg Studio Theatre (Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, 400 Colony St.), presented by Rainbow Stage. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
From left: director Erin McGrath, assistant stage manager Kyra Krassnigg, stage manager Sarah Lamoureux, music director Renate Rossol, and choreographer Rachael McLaren. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be in Manitoba late Thursday through Sunday to speak with the public and youth about his upcoming role in Artemis II, the first crewed test flight of the Artemis program. Erik Pindera reports.
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen trains for the Artemis II mission earlier this year at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. (Josh Valcarcel photo)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew’s decision to extend the provincial gas tax holiday is likely going to reinforce the popular support he currently enjoys with Manitoba voters nearly a year after the NDP’s election victory.
Kinew announced Wednesday that he is extending 14-cents-per litre tax suspension for another three months, until Dec. 31. The holiday began Jan. 1 and was initially scheduled to end June 30, but was extended until Sept. 30.
A Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in August suggested 71 per cent of Manitobans supported another extension. The CTF has called for the permanent removal of the provincial gas tax. Chris Kitching has the story.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
It’s a dinosaur that roamed Alberta’s badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant.
On Wednesday, paleontologists near Grande Prairie pulled its 272-kilogram skull from the ground. They call it “Big Sam.” The Canadian Press has the story.
Paleontologists prepare a large dinosaur skull for excavation in northern Alberta on Wednesday. (Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum / Handoput / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Sept. 26, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Korea, two spearheads of UN forces were poised to converge near Seoul, which would cut off North Korean troops in southwest Korea. U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced UN forces had liberated Seoul from communist North Korean troops that had trapped the city for nearly three months. In Quebec City, the federal-provincial constitutional conference decided to hold its session on complex discussions of Canada’s constitutional setup in secret. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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