Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the north at 20 km/h. High 18 C, UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg-based Swampy Cree author David A. Robertson launches The Sleeping Giant, the fifth book in his popular Misewa Saga books for middle-grade readers, tonight at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A protest at Portage and Main Wednesday, to denounce the death of an Indigenous woman who was fatally struck by a police cruiser, was the scene of violence as officers stayed back from the intersection at the request of demonstrators.
The Winnipeg Police Service said officers “were strategically placed out of view” of the intersection, which had been shut down by about 100 people beginning during the noon hour. The rally was called to mark the death of Tammy Bateman, a homeless woman in her 30s who died after being struck by a police vehicle at the Fort Rouge Park riverside homeless encampment Monday night.
About 20 minutes after the protest began, a driver in a Chrysler New Yorker tried to drive north on Main Street at Portage Avenue, but was blocked by several protesters. The motorist drove through the blockade and struck a cyclist who was blocking the way. The bike was dragged by the vehicle. Nicole Buffie has the story.
A man drove his vehicle through the protest blocking traffic at Portage and Main on Wednesday. (Nic Adam / Free Press)
On the bright side
A Rembrandt discovered in an attic sold for $1.4 million.
The 17th century painting, “Portrait of a Girl,” by Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was discovered by art appraiser and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux in an attic in an estate in Camden, Maine. A label on the back of the frame noted that it was loaned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for an exhibition in 1970.
“On house calls, we often go in blind, not knowing what we’ll find,” said Veilleux, from Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. “The home was filled with wonderful pieces but it was in the attic, among stacks of art, that we found this remarkable portrait.” The Associated Press has more here.
A 17th-century painting, “Portrait of a Girl,” by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. (Thomaston Place Auction Galleries / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 5, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Little Rock, Ark., six Black students were escorted by National Guardsmen into a high school despite the protests of hundreds of white people who decried the move to school integration in the wake of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. In Winnipeg, rates for distribution of natural gas were officially set by the municipal and public utility board, eight per cent lower than those sought by Winnipeg and Central Gas Co. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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