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Cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud near noon. Wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 15 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Brittany Penner’s debut book-length work of non-fiction tells the story of the Métis woman’s adoption by a Mennonite family, her many fellow Indigenous foster siblings who came and went and the tangled roots of her identity she uncovered as an adult.
The Blumenort author will launch Children Like Us: A Métis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home (Doubleday Canada) at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location at 7 p.m. tonight, where she’ll be joined in conversation by Shelagh Rogers, former host of CBC’s The Next Chapter, to help unpack the themes of cultural continuity and belonging that run through the book.
Brittany Penner (Michael Maren photo)
Today’s must-read
A 26-year-old man fatally stabbed his sister and injured seven others in a knife attack at a central Manitoba First Nation before dying in a crash that left a “hero” RCMP officer seriously hurt on Thursday.
RCMP officers went door-to-door in the aftermath at Hollow Water First Nation, about 185 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, to ensure there were no additional victims of the mass stabbing. “What happened early (Thursday) morning is a tragedy for the community of Hollow Water First Nation and for all of Manitoba,” Scott McMurchy, Manitoba RCMP assistant commissioner, said at an afternoon news conference in Winnipeg. Chris Kitching, Scott Billeck and Nicole Buffie have the story.
Members of the community are shocked at the events, as Nicole Buffie reports.
As Niigaan Sinclair writes, studies done in the 1980s and in 2001 in the community showed intergenerational effects of colonialism as a root cause for violence. “In Hollow Water, there are many strong, proud, and resilient people with abundant culture and language, but an equal amount who have unresolved trauma, struggle, and pain — all documented in nearly half a century of research that has rarely found caring eyes.” Read his column here.
Hollow Water First Nation (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Deep dive
When transit flows, a neighbourhood thrives.
When buses are frequent, arrive on time and run into the night, it means more kids make it to after-school activities, more students can get to class on time, more shift workers can get home safely late at night and more commuters can leave their vehicles at home.
The end result is robust movement throughout a community, according to Orly Linovski, an urban planning professor at the University of Manitoba.
That was the vision Winnipeg Transit promised as it rolled out its all-new Primary Transit Network earlier this summer.
The new routes and redistribution of bus stops implemented as part of the transit-system overhaul were intended to deliver faster and more reliable service to better serve all corners of a growing city.
A Free Press/Narwhal analysis of the city’s transit system before and after the June 29 transition date reveals a different story. Julia-Simone Rutgers and Malak Abas report.
Transit changes that were put in place on June 29 seem to have left some neighbourhoods behind. (John Woods / Free Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 5, 1986: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Portage la Prairie woman was released from jail after the Crown agreed a three-month sentence was too harsh for her refusal to testify against her common-law husband. Four Palestinians seized a Pan Am jumbo jet at Karachi’s airport and killed one of the 400 passengers. A Manitoba legislative committee heard that a wealthy sheik who received an unauthorized $1.5-million loan from a controversial Saudi Arabian venture of MTX Telecom Services never paid it back in cash. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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