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Blue blood: Retired Winnipeg police officer Stan Smyth recounts the day he first saw a one-year-old boy he and his wife would adopt. They called him Danny and the boy grew up to wear a police badge like his father. Today, Danny Smyth is set to become Winnipeg’s new police chief. His proud father, now 84 years old, talks exclusively to Gordon Sinclair Jr. READ MORE
Your forecast: Don’t put that umbrella away yet. Today’s weather is expected to be cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the morning and early afternoon. The high will be 12 C, with wind from the south at 20 km/h. The cloud cover continues overnight, with a 40 per cent chance of showers and a low of 9.
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WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSEmterra Enviromental crew empties garbage bins in the Wolseley neighbourhood.
Emterra dumped: Winnipeg’s trash collector was kicked to the curb by city council on Wednesday. Emterra Environmental was dropped, and two new private garbage contractors will pick up Winnipeg’s trash beginning in 2017. Kristin Annable reports. READ MORE
Growth fees approved: After debate that dominated city council in recent weeks, a new fee on residential development was approved on Wednesday. The mayor and most councillors said it was important to have developers help pay for the extension of city services that new developments require. The developers, 100 of whom filled the council gallery for the vote on Wednesday, called it an unfair and possibly illegal tax. Kristin Annable reports. READ MORE
Up next
‘We Ain’t Cowgirls!’: Multi-award-winning Francophone singer-songwriters Alexis Normand of Saskatoon and Ariane Mahrÿke Lemire of Edmonton are at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain in Winnipeg tonight for a double bill as they each release a new album. Dubbed the We Ain’t Cowgirls! tour, they encourage audiences to “Venture out of your homes, your corrals, your saloons, and hear two shows for the price of one — a two-step unlike any you’ve ever seen!”
Unique artistic project: In the mood for something different tonight? An artistic projection, titled The Creation of the Universe According to Genesis, Science and Art Multimedia, will be shown at the Manitoba Museum. The one-hour show consists of projecting three sets of six Monique Larouche’s acrylic paintings under the Planetarium dome, complemented by original music composed by Denis Gagnon. Shows are at 7 p.m. in English, 8 p.m. in French.
Around the water cooler
ADRIAN WYLD / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESMinister of Finance Bill Morneau
No silver lining: Calling today’s economic realities for millennials by catchphrases such as “gig economy,” “side hustle” or “job hopping” doesn’t disguise the fact that job insecurity and instability is the new normal, as Jen Zoratti writes. READ MORE
Trade deal reached: Despite opposition from the Wallonia region in Belgium over signing the Canada-European Union trade agreement, CETA, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced Thursday morning that days of negotiations with Wallonia has resulted in a deal. READ MORE
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#missinternational2016: Miss Phillippines, Kylie Versoza, has won the Miss International pageant.
On this date
On Oct. 27, 1989: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a cartoon in Quebec newspaper Le Devoir depicted Manitobans as Ku Klux Klansmen; the cartoon was reportedly a reaction to Manitobans’ opposition to the Meech Lake Accord. A federal virology lab to be built in Winnipeg was now slated to begin construction in the downtown area rather than in St. Boniface. In Britain, prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s government was thrown into turmoil when Nigel Lawson resigned as finance minister. READ MORE
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