Your forecast
Sunny, with wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h this afternoon. High 23 C, UV index 5 or moderate.
Another mercury-busting day has pushed Winnipeg closer to surpassing a 76-year-old record.
September is on track to be Winnipeg’s hottest ever as the daytime mean is on track to eclipse the record set in 1948.
While summer is officially over, Mother Nature hasn’t got the memo: temperatures reached 29 C Thursday at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport. Erik Pindera has more here.
Joggers Camryn Watson (left) and her friend Tia Davidson decided to take advantage of the beautiful, summer-like weather and go for a five-kilometre run Thursday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Edmonton Elks at Princess Auto Stadium, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba government is closing in on its “ambitious” goal of hiring 1,000 net new health-care workers this fiscal year to ease chronic staff shortages, Premier Wab Kinew announced Thursday.
Kinew said the province has added 873 public employees since the budget was unveiled in April, making him optimistic the target will be reached before the end of March.
“I want to be clear, we’re not putting up the mission accomplished banner just yet,” he said during a news conference at Grace Hospital. Chris Kitching has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew is greeted by health care staff at the Grace Hospital prior to announcing the Manitoba government is more than halfway to its goal of hiring 1,000 net new health-care workers. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Donning heavy spacesuits and visors to protect them from sunlight, astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Matthias Maurer of Germany, accompanied by their trusty canine robot, move slowly on what looks like the lunar surface. But it’s not the moon.
It will be years before the European Space Agency can send one of its astronauts there. For now, they are practicing in a facility the agency opened in Germany on Wednesday where lunar conditions have been replicated. The Associated Press reports.
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Matthias Maurer of Germany demonstrate their training in lunar surface at the new LUNA facility at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany. (Martin Meissner / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 27, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a former plant manager told a public inquiry that the Toronto owners of Brandon Packers, while they were telling striking workers they couldn’t pay wage increases, siphoned off more than $200,000 for management services they never rendered. In New York, president Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic called on U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev to meet face-to-face in a new attempt at disarmament. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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