Today’s weather
Your forecast: Sunny with some haze. High of 26 C, UV index 6 or high. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h this morning, gusting to 40 near noon.
What’s happening today
Sept. 6 marks the 50th anniversary of Game 3 of the Summit Series, in which Canada squared off against the USSR for hockey supremacy at the height of the Cold War. Geoff Kirbyson has a look back at that game, played in Winnipeg; photo editor Mike Aporius has curated photos of the event from the Free Press archives, some not seen in decades; and Alan Small previews the new CBC series covering the famed hockey games.
Pat Stapleton races in to help his goaltender Tony Esposito during Game Three of the Summit Series in Winnipeg, on Sept. 6, 1972. (Hockey Hall of Fame)
Today’s must-read
Documents showing the floor plan for Environment and Climate Change Canada’s new office in Winnipeg have been spun into a dire report by fringe media voices, and it’s one example of how an environment of western alienation is helping fuel conspiracy theories in the prairie provinces. Dylan Robertson has the story.
‘It’s misinformation, it’s disinformation and flat-out conspiracy theories,’ says MP Dan Vandal, minister responsible for the PrairiesCan economic development agency. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 6, 1926: The Manitoba Free Press reported that King Alfonso’s government in Spain had declared martial law and suppressed the mutinous movement of Spanish artillerymen. A train derailment in Colorado in which several cars plunged into the Arkansas River killed 18 people and seriously injured 25. A prominent Montreal barrister, L.A. Rivet, speaking at St. Boniface City Hall, said the people of Quebec were in solidarity with Western Canada in the fight for a completed Hudson Bay railway and statutory freight rates. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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