Your forecast
Sunny, but increasing cloudiness this afternoon with a 60 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm late this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50 near noon. High 27 C. Humidex 31. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
🍴 The third annual Taste of Manitoba food festival kicks off today and continues until Sept. 7 at Fort Gibraltar (various times; see here for details). The event is hosted by the Manitoba Restaurant & Foodservice Association and features bites and beverages from 20 local restaurants.
💲 The Bank of Canada is set to unveil a new bill today featuring an image of King Charles.
This is the first Canadian paper currency to feature Charles, whose image replaces that of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The Canadian Press reports.
King Charles, left, and Queen Camilla (Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg woman who’s been hailed as a hero by police for saving a father and his young child from the Red River says she doesn’t feel like one.
“I’m a mom… and I would do it again,” said Jayclyn Morrissette, who was walking with her neighbour through St. John’s Park on Aug. 24 when they spotted a young girl flailing in the nearby river. “I was meant to be there and that was supposed to happen.”
Morrissette, who spoke to the Free Press Wednesday after police released details about the rescue, said she and her neighbour began looking for the child’s parents and found them at the nearby playground searching for her. Scott Billeck has the story.
Jayclyn Morrissette on the banks of the Red River near where she rescued a two-year-old girl and her dad from drowning last week. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 3, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Edmonton, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr. Linus Pauling said 290,000 people then living would die from the effects of fallout from nuclear weapons that had been exploded over the preceding 14 years. Winnipeg ratepayers might be asked to vote $165,000 for five new swimming pools in the October civic election.
Today’s front page
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