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Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud near noon. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 in the morning. Expected high is 21 C, UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Manitoba’s three main party leaders will offer their ideas on health care tonight at 7 p.m. at a forum hosted by Doctors Manitoba, 20 Desjardins Dr.
(Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press files)
Afterlight, which looks at a relationship between a 500-year-old vampire and an octogenarian widower, continues to Oct. 1 at Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain. Tickets to the 4-1/2 star musical are $40 at rainbowstage.ca
Afterlight, presented by Rainbow Stage, features Duncan Cox and Sharon Bajer. (Leif Norman photo).
Today’s must-read
When the Manitoba Legislative Assembly was dissolved less than four weeks ago, women held just one-quarter of the 57 seats across the province. That imbalance could shift dramatically next Tuesday.
More electoral divisions in Manitoba have women and gender-diverse candidates on the ballot, putting a gender-balanced assembly within reach next week, according to Equal Voice, a national non-partisan organization dedicated to electing more women to all levels of political office. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Eddie Calisto-Tavares is one of 14 women and gender-diverse nominees running for the Liberals, about 28 per cent of the party’s 49 candidates. Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Canada’s women’s soccer team defeated Jamaica 2-1 on Tuesday night in the second leg of the teams’ Olympic qualifier to secure a berth at next summer’s Paris Games.
Canada’s Jordyn Huitema, 9, celebrates her goal with teammates Julia Groos, 7, and Shelina Zadorshy, 4, against Jamaica in Toronto on Tuesday. (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Sept. 27, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the United Kingdom believed UN troops would have to go north of the 38th parallel in Korea, and was circulating a resolution that would provide for unification of the country and democratic elections under UN auspices. Canada’s army announced its first troops had arrived in Tokyo to establish a liason with Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters for the Korean campaign. In New York, the 12-nation North Atlantic council of foreign ministers agreed to establish at the earliest possible date an integrated West European force to meet the threat of Soviet invasion. In Winnipeg, a fire broke out at the Osborne Foundry on Pembina Avenue, threatening to destroy the building and all its equipment, worth about $15,000. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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