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Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. Wind from the south at 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 early this afternoon. Expected high is 23 C, humidex 26, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Canada’s near-term economic struggles will ease next year when growth returns and the Bank of Canada begins cutting its key lending rate, a new forecast from Deloitte Canada said. The Canadian Press reports.
Canada’s near-term economic struggles will begin to resolve by the second half of next year, a new forecast says. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Promises to be “tough on crime” are virtually universal across party lines in a campaign that for weeks has been short on specifics about how prospective provincial leaders would prevent violence and improve public safety if they form government after Tuesday’s votes are counted.
Crime is top of mind for Manitoba voters, who rank it as one of their top three most important concerns during this election, up there with health-care and poverty/homelessness, according to a Probe Research poll conducted earlier this month. The same poll declared a tie between the NDP and Progressive Conservative leaders as to who is best poised to deal with crime and public safety — the 1,000 survey respondents were split on that point. Katie May has the story.
Firefighters wash off the blood on the pavement after a man was found injured outside an apartment block at 285 College Ave. earlier this month. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
In northern Chile, Aymara women like Teófila Challapa learn to weave under blue skies and air so thin that outsiders struggle to breathe. While herding llamas and alpacas through scarce grasslands 11,500 feet above sea level, they create their first textiles.
“We had no clothes or money, so we needed to learn how to dress with our own hands,” said Challapa, sitting next to fluffy alpacas outside her humble home in Cariquima, a town with fewer than 500 inhabitants near the Chile-Bolivia border. The knowledge of her craft passes on from one generation to another, securing Aymara families’ bond with their land. The Associated Press reports.
Llamas that belong to Teófila Challapa stand behind her home in Cariquima, Chile. (Ignacio Munoz / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 28, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba Strike Inquiry was told the Brandon Packers’ paper value was increased almost three times months before bonds were sold, which allowed the plant to be purchased by two Toronto businessmen. And Brandon Packers managed to make 10 times its normal average profit in 1950, thanks to government hog policy, a former plant manager told the commission. A former St. James lawyer faced 79 charges of theft involving clients’ accounts. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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