Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with increasing cloudiness this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest at 50 km/h gusting to 70 near noon. High 23 C. Humidex 27. UV index 5 or moderate.
A powerful storm cut a swath of destruction through River Heights on Sunday, leaving much of the area without power.
Nobody was hurt in the storm.
By the time it subsided, parts of the quiet neighbourhood, especially Borebank and Lindsay streets between Grant and Taylor, had been ravaged: power lines downed, Manitoba Hydro poles toppled, trees splintered and crashed down on vehicles and homes. Melissa Martin has more here.
The storm downed power lines and toppled tress and Manitoba Hydro poles. (John Woods / Free Press)
What’s happening today
Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods took effect just after midnight EDT on Tuesday, responding to the 50 per cent tariffs Washington hit Canada with last month.
On Aug. 22, U.S. President Donald Trump launched tariffs on nearly $28 billion of Canadian goods, from hockey sticks and cement to honey, after trade talks broke down between the two nations. The Canadian Press reports.
Vehicles approach the United States border at Saint Bernard de Lacolle, Que., in 2025. (Christopher Katsarov / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Independent schools are preparing to welcome a record number of students as more families pay for faith-based instruction and secular alternatives.
The overwhelming majority of Manitoba children — 200,000 — are starting in the public school system this fall. Since 2000, the percentage of students enrolled elsewhere — in homeschools, funded and non-funded independent schools — has nearly doubled, to 12 per cent from seven per cent.
“If money was no object, we could fill dozens and dozens more classrooms with the demand for independent education,” said Andrew Micklefield, executive director of the Manitoba Federation of Independent Schools, who is a former Tory government house leader. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
(Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
When Christa Slatnik and Cindy Sanchez lost their mother to ovarian cancer in 2000, it was devastating.
But when the twin sisters got the opportunity to volunteer for Winnipeg’s first-ever Ovarian Cancer Walk of Hope in 2004, it allowed them to honour their mother and continue her legacy.
“Although losing her was the hardest thing we’ve ever gone through, especially when we were only 23 years old, to try to take such a negative thing and turn it around and help other people makes her loss feel like it’s improving the world by increasing awareness,” said Slatnik. Tiago Resko has more here.
Christa Slatnik, left, and Cindy Sanchez are twin sisters who have organized the Ovarian Cancer Walk of Hope the last 23 years. (Supplied)
On this date
On Sept. 7, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported a new ruling by the Board of Railway Commissioners would see freight rates increased the coming Monday, but the hike would be limited to 35 per cent for Western Canada and 40 per cent for Eastern Canada. Projected railway extension and branch lines work in the West was being held up by difficulties in acquiring enough steel rails, and also owing to a severe shortage of labour.
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