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Training children to fight: Winnipeg police want all schools in Winnipeg to adopt a new American lockdown program that advises students and staff to try to run and, as a last resort, fight for their lives. However, a Manitoba school-safety official can’t remember that last time a school intruder physically harmed students or staff here. Nick Martin has exclusive details. READ MORE
Your forecast: Snow to the north of us, snow to the west of us, but it appears Winnipeg will miss the brunt of the system that has dumped early-October whiteness on northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Today’s high will be 6 C, with wind from the southwest at 40 km/h, gusting to 60. Tonight’s low will be 1 C, perilously close to the freezing mark.
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TREVOR HAGAN / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILEAndrea Giesbrecht’s lawyer Greg Brodsky
Infants’ remains in locker: Andrea Giesbrecht wasn’t trying to hide human remains when she put them in a storage locker, according to her lawyer, Greg Brodsky. Instead, she was trying to save the remains of the six infants and even stored them with items such as toy cars and a Happy Meal coupon, the lawyer told court on Wednesday. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Switched at birth: Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has agreed to meet four men who were switched at birth at the Norway House Indian Hospital in 1975. DNA tests confirm two male babies were sent home with each other’s mothers from the hospital on June 19, 1975, and the same thing happened earlier at the same hospital in February 1975. Mia Rabson reports. READ MORE
Up next
FRANK GUNN / THE CANADIAN PRESSToronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion celebrates after hitting a walk-off three-run home run during 11th inning American League wild-card game action against the Baltimore Orioles in Toronto on Tuesday.
Afternoon game: Expect many people to juggle their work schedules today to be close to televisions or livestreaming devices at 3:30 p.m. CT. After Tuesday evening’s tense 11th-inning victory, the Toronto Blue Jays begins a best-of-five Major League Baseball playoff series today against Texas Rangers. READ MORE
Waverly Underpass: The public is invited to attend a public open house about the Waverley Underpass today from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., and from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Caboto Centre, 1055 Wilkes Ave. It will include detailed design for the underpass, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, intersection and road improvements, as well as construction timelines and detours. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
MELISSA TAIT / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESThe crowd at the inaugural regular season game at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg on June 27, 2013. Attendance at IGF has been declining.
Bomber fan base declining: Even though the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are winning this season, the number of fans in the seats continues to decline, averaging 26,148 fans at the 33,234-seat Investors Group Field. There’s been a 17 per cent decline in the past three years, which, no coincidence, is when the team left the old stadium in the Polo Park area. Paul Wiecek reports. READ MORE
The Boss has The Book: Diane Geddes met music legend Bruce Springsteen at a signed-book event in Seattle on the weekend and urged him to play a concert in Winnipeg. To give him a glimpse of Winnipeg, she gave him a copy of the book City Beautiful, published in 2014 by the Winnipeg Free Press, and she marked pages with sticky notes to show the venues at which The Boss could play. Ashley Prest reports. READ MORE
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#NationalPoetryDay: Lend someone thine ear today (preferably a local poet whose work has made your heart sing); and if the muse strikes you, contribute a verse of your own to this powerful play.
#AddSportsRuinAMovie: Does the silver screen need more sporting spirit? Maybe. Consider such pitches as “The Great Gretzky,” “Penalty Flag of Our Fathers,” “The Umpire Strikes Back,” or “Dude, Where’s My Par?”
On this date
On Oct. 6, 1983: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that all three federal political parties supported a resolution in the House of Commons that endorsed the Manitoba government’s bilingualism bill. The Manitoba NDP government seemed unperturbed by the federal move, but provincial Progressive Conservative leader Sterling Lyon condemned it, including federal PC leader Brian Mulroney in his criticism of those who had supported the resolution. READ MORE
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