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Today’s must-read
Two Winnipeg police officers will be posted around the clock in the emergency department at Health Sciences Centre to respond to rising levels of violence at the city’s largest hospital, the Free Press has learned.
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara is expected to announce the new security measures today.
“A 24-7 police presence will give front-line staff, including nurses, the peace of mind they need to focus on delivering care to their patients,” Asagwara said in a statement.
The minister said the provincially funded police presence and five weapons detection scanners in the main public entrances of HSC — 655 William Ave., 700 William Ave., and 820 Sherbrook St. — will still allow the hospital to be “inclusive and welcoming.” Dan Lett and Carol Sanders have the story.
People walk in the HSC parkade Monday. Shared Health have issued an escort waiver form which asks those who use the ‘safe ride’ program to assume and accept all risks. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
On a recent sunny morning in a channel at the Port of Los Angeles, seven blue steel structures that look like small boats are lowered into the ocean one by one. Attached to an unused wharf on a site that once housed oil tanks, they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate renewable power. Nearby, a sea lion peeks from the water and pelicans and sea gulls soar overhead.
This is the United States’ first onshore wave energy site, and on Tuesday, Eco Wave Power will officially unveil the pilot installation and begin operating. The pilot will generate just a small amount of electricity that can be used locally, but the larger goal is to prove the technology works well enough to expand along 8 miles (12.9 km) of breakwater at the port — enough to power up to 60,000 homes. The Associated Press has more here.
A boat goes past an onshore wave energy site, a pilot by Eco Wave Power, at the Port of Los Angeles’ AltaSea ocean institute. (Damian Dovarganes / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 9, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported concrete plans to handle Mediterranean pirate attacks on the world’s shipping were believed endorsed by the British cabinet. Japanese bombers and warships bombed and shelled the south China port of Amoy (Xiamen). With the private capital over-subscribed, the Winnipeg Housing Company would build $3,500 homes and sell them to the public for $400 cash and $30 a month for 20 years. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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