COVID-19 crisis
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSPremier Brian Pallister admits to being a little apprehensive about how the fall will play out when students return to school. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press).
Premier admits he’s ‘apprehensive’: In an interview in his office Wednesday, Premier Brian Pallister said his government’s back-to-school plan isn’t “gambling,” but added “it’s fair to say it is an experiment.” Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Preventing northern exposure: Travel restrictions in northern Manitoba, instituted in April and lifted in June, resumed today because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in the province’s south. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers throughout the morning, a high of 17 C, and wind from the northwest at 20 km/h and gusting to 40, increasing to 40 km/h and gusting to 60 beginning later this morning.
In sports
JESSE BOILY / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe Dale Hawerchuk banner at True North Square
Honouring Hawerchuk: The Winnipeg Jets are live-streaming a show honouring NHL hall-of-fame player Dale Hawerchuk, who died Aug. 18. The event, called Remembering Ducky, begins at noon at winnipegjets.com, YouTube and the team’s mobile app. It will repeat at 7 p.m. READ MORE
Raptors’ reign in jeopardy: The Toronto Raptors, down 2-0 in their second-round series with the Boston Celtics, must win tonight to have a realistic chance to win the series and repeat as NBA champions. No team has ever won an NBA playoff series after trailing 3-0. READ MORE
Could clinch: The Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks will seek to stave off elimination in Game 6 matches against the New York Islanders and Vegas Golden Knights tonight. The Flyers and Canucks both won Game 5 after being down 3-1 in their respective second-round series. READ MORE
‘Heart and soul of the Mets’: Tom Seaver, the pitching great who led the young New York Mets franchise from being a cellar-dweller to their first World Series win in 1969, died this week from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. READ MORE
In case you missed it
JESSE BOILY / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSManitoba Liberal Leader and MLA for St. Boniface, Dougald Lamont, is critical of the province for delaying investment in women’s health care.
‘Not a priority’: Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont says he’s frustrated with waiting for federal funds to flow while the provincial government is dragging its feet on entering into agreements with Ottawa. He said Manitoba could have used federal money to offer a counselling program for grieving mothers much earlier. Katie May reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Sept. 3, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in Detroit, Mich., the second of the Big Three auto companies’ economy cars went into production, as Ford started building Falcons in Lorain, Ohio; Chevrolet had been building Corvairs at its nearby plant in Willow Run since mid-July. Winnipeg ratepayers could be asked to vote $1,165,000 for five new city pools in the upcoming civic election. In Edmonton, Alta., a Nobel-prize-winning chemist said 290,000 people would die owing to effects of fallout from nuclear weapons exploded over the previous 14 years.
Today’s front page
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The reopening of schools dominated newspaper coverage in September.
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