Your forecast
Sunny this morning with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon and a 30 per cent chance of showers. Wind becoming east at 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h around noon. A high of 24 C with a UV index of 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🎶 Bryan Adams takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. at Canada Life Centre. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
🎸 Ikons of Rock performs at The Centennial Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. and promises to deliver an “all-encompassing, authentic experience of classic 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s arena rock shows.” For tickets and more information, click here.
🧚 The Leaf’s latest display — the Enchanted Forest — is on now at the Babs Asper Display House until Nov. 16.
Celebrating the magic and majesty of trees and the role they play in sustaining life, the enchanted forest features more than 30 live trees including Norfolk pine, black hill spruce, lilac, oak, birch, and cedar, and bog plantings such as Venus Flytraps and pitcher plants to represent the layers of a forest ecosystem. AV Kitching has more.
A new display, The Enchanted Forest, is now open at the Babs Asper Display House at The Leaf. (Assiniboine Park Conservancy photo)
Today’s must-read
Sunlight lit up the orange shirts and signs lining the walking path near the Indigenous Peoples Garden at Assiniboine Park on Sunday, creating a vivid ribbon of colour through the trees.
Along the circular route, signs were strung between tree trunks. Some shared snapshots of colonization and residential school history, while others highlighted the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 10 principles of reconciliation.
Scott Billeck reports.
The first annual Reconciliation Walk invited people to learn, reflect on Canada’s dark history with Indigenous peoples. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
Dillyn Cook beams with pride in front of the Pembina Highway bridge he helped spruce up.
Cook, 20, is part of Step Up Construction, a social enterprise that provides construction training to inner-city youth. After joining the program as a self-described North End kid with an “unstable” home life looking for meaningful work, his first big job was working on the Pembina Highway Bridge over the La Salle River.
On Friday, a gathering was held to mark the completion of the project, which began last year. Malak Abas has more here.
Dillyn Cook, 20, worked on the rehabilitation of the Pembina Highway bridge over the La Salle River. (Malak Abas / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 29, 1921: The Manitoba Free Press reported Sir Keith Smith and his brother Sir Ross Smith were preparing to make a round-the-world flight the next spring, saying they wanted to leave nothing to chance and that they wanted the honour making the first such flight “to go to a Britisher.” In Ottawa, Baron Byng of Vimy, governor-general of Canada, addressed the Canadian Club and said the ideals of democracy at issue in the First World War must still be fought for. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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