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Sunny with some haze. Expected high is 20 C, UV index 6 or high; low 7 C.
What’s happening today
Versatile American pianist Awadagin Pratt will perform Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in A Major (BWV1055) with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, led by music director Anne Manson, for the MCO’s season-opening concert Wednesday. Crescent Arts Centre, 525 Wardlaw Ave., 7:30 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Awadagin Pratt (Rob Davidson photo)
At WAG-Qaumajuq’s idyllic Rooftop Sculpture Garden, Modo Yoga’s Jessica Ryan will lead an hour-long class from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., which will be followed by food, drinks and music from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Today’s must-read
Using the week’s grocery specials as a backdrop, Progressive Conservative Leader Heather Stefanson kicked off the party’s official election campaign Tuesday, promising to make life more affordable if the Tories are re-elected to a third term. At her campaign launch Tuesday, she said the PCs would cut the rate for the lowest provincial income tax bracket in half — by 1.35 per cent per year over the next four years, amounting to $1,900 by 2028 for Manitobans earning an average income of $50,000. Read the full story here.
Manitoba PC Leader and Premier Heather Stefanson greets supporters before announcing the start of the provincial election process with supporters and candidates in Winnipeg, Tuesday. (John Woods / The Canadian Press)
On the bright side
Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The cache of exceptionally intact artifacts was found about two months ago and tells a story of empire and rebellion, of long-distance conquest and local insurrection. The Associated Press reports.
Four Roman-era swords and a javelin head found during a recent excavation in a cave near the Dead Sea. (Ohad Zwigenberg / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 6, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Paris, Great Britain warned the peace conference it would pull out of the Big Four agreement on Venezie Giulia if the disputed Adriatic port of Trieste were not given genuine international status as a free territory. In Western Canada, rain, snow and frost threatened crops as deluges hit areas from the Alberta foothills to Manitoba’s eastern border. A report by the Anglican commission on Indigenous work investigation sharply criticized the federal gorvenment for chronic underfunding of the Department of Indian Affairs and the resulting ‘starvation of Indian residential schools’.” In Copenhagen, proposals to the United Nations food and agricultural organization included potentially asking Canada to store up to 100 million bushels of wheat for international use. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
P.S.: For readers curious to know the outcome of Beryl Markham’s flight across the Atlantic in 1936, mentioned in yesterday’s Head Start — she survived a crash-landing on Cape Breton Island, becoming the first person to fly solo nonstop from Europe to North America. You can read more about her here.
Today’s front page
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