Your forecast
Cloudy and showers this morning. Widespread smoke from wildfires is causing poor air quality over much of the province according to a special air quality statement. Expected high is 18 C, UV index 4 or moderate, with wind from the north 30 km/h gusting to 50.
What’s happening today
In Ottawa, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, organizers of the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” are scheduled to stand trial for their role in the three-week protest that overtook the streets around downtown and sparked a national emergency declaration. The Canadian Press reports.
‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Tamara Lich (centre) and follow convoy organizer Chris Barber are scheduled to stand trial in Ottawa . (Jason Franson / The Canadian Press files)
In Washington, D.C., former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced for a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop the transfer of presidential power after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Tarrio will be the final Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to receive his punishment. The Associated Press reports.
Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio (Allison Dinner / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
Premier Heather Stefanson is expected to visit the lieutenant-governor today to issue the writ of election, officially putting Manitoba in full election mode as the countdown to Oct. 3 begins. The three main political parties say they’re expecting to have a full slate of candidates knocking on doors asking for votes in what’s expected to be a tight, nasty race as Manitoba’s first female premier tries to hang on to power for the Progressive Conservatives. Click here to read the story.
Premier Heather Stefanson (Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica. For almost two decades, ornithologist James Zook has been collecting detailed records on nearly 430 tropical bird species found on small farms, plantations and undisturbed forests in the country. The Associated Press reports.
A white-winged tanager at Las Cruces Biological Station in Coto Brus, Costa Rica. (J. Nicholas Hendershot via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 5, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the question of a general strike in Winnipeg was laid over at a meeting of major international unions in the city, but a planned mass protest for Sept. 12 would go ahead. More than 10 hours after aviator Beryl Markham took off from her native England in an attempt to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east to west, no definite word of her progress had been received. In Spain, loyalist forces set fire to houses in Irun and Fuenterabia as rebel foces advanced. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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