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Your forecast: If the Environment Canada forecast holds up, that 12-kilogram bird from Granny’s won’t be the only thing roasting on Thanksgiving Sunday. (That’s funny stuff-ing!) To get to the main course, we still have to get through the appetizers. Expect a bland Thursday that begins with cloud cover and ends with clearing skies late in the day and a high of 14 C. It looks like Friday’s weather will be slightly more palatable, with a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 15 C. Saturday’s forecast is downright delicious as we hit a high of 23 C under a sunny sky. And then Mother Nature serves up a scrumptious Sunday, with a bright, blue sky and a daytime high of 25 C. Too bad we can’t pass on dessert – there’s rain coming on the holiday Monday.
In case you missed it
A rendering of the $250-million project, which will involve the destruction of two neighbourhoods with the expropriation and demolition of more than 140 properties, including a Sikh temple and a neighbourhood park.
Marion and Archibald: An ambitious $250-million plan to build an underpass and interchange at Marion and Archibald Streets should be scrapped, says St. Boniface Coun. Matt Allard. Although once a champion of the project, Allard now says the city needs to return to the drawing board and come up with a new plan to ease the area’s traffic woes, one that won’t require the city demolishing or expropriating 140 residences and businesses. READ MORE
Not just a war story: Canadian actor/writer/director Paul Gross doesn’t take Canada’s military history lightly. In his 2008 film Passchendale he probed the nationalism that thrust thousands of young men into the meat-grinder of the First World War. In his new film, Hyena Road, shot in 30 days with some filming taking place in Manitoba at CFB Shilo, addresses the problems faced by the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan. Hyena Road opens on Oct. 9. READ MORE
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Jen Zoratti
Shut up and listen: Manitoba women’s groups hold an election forum today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lockhart Hall, the University of Winnipeg. Candidates are invited, but not to talk. The candidates are invited to listen to prominent women talk about women’s issues. The speakers include Free Press columnist Jen Zoratti, who will speak on women in leadership roles.
Spam on the menu: Top chefs participate today in an off-beat event called Thanksgiving Disaster Dinner, designed to educate people on the importance of emergency preparedness. The Red Cross is a co-organizer of the 30-minute competition that starts at 11 a.m. at the Kenaston Walmart, 1665 Kenaston Blvd. Under the watchful eye of chefs, kids will cook under conditions that simulate a disaster situation, using no electricity or tap water. The kids will choose from a list of non-perishable items, ranging from peanut butter to canned fruit to canned ham.
Look at these photographs: Every time you do, they might make you laugh (sorry, Nickelback)… or tear up… or simply reflect on Winnipeg’s ever-changing downtown. Starting today, about 4,000 pictures taken by 15 local photographers — some newbies and some experienced shooters — and shared on social media will be on display near the water fountain at Portage Place Shopping Centre. The exhibit is a Downtown Biz initiative that runs until Oct. 30.
Around the water cooler
Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free PressCary Paul, operating partner of the Palomino Club on Portage Avenue. They are in negotiations to move to the old 4Play Sports Bar on Portage Avenue and Hargrave Street.
Goodbye, Palomino: One of the city’s oldest and most popular bars is shutting down to make way from condominiums. The Palomino Club will shut its doors on Portage Avenue on Jan. 2, but hopes to reopen somewhere downtown. Cary Paul, the club’s owner, says they are negotiating with the owners of 323 Portage Ave., formerly the 4Play sports bar, and hopes to put a pub on the main floor and a club in the basement. READ MORE
Too close to call: With many ridings showing candidates in virtual dead heats, the federal election is defying attempts by pollsters and pundits to predict what will happen on Oct. 19, Mary Agnes Welch writes. “We can’t know — we shouldn’t know — the complicated minds of thousands of voters whose private moment behind the little cardboard screen has always been a mystery.” Reversals and surprise upsets are part of any election, and that’s a good thing. READ MORE
No more pretend: Let the meaningful games begin. After weeks of preparation, including seven exhibition games, the Winnipeg Jets open the NHL’s 2015-16 regular season tonight in Massachusetts against the Boston Bruins. Game time from TD Garden is 6 p.m. and it’s on TSN television and radio. The Jets will have three rookie forwards in the lineup – Andrew Copp, Nic Petan and Nikolaj Ehlers. Copp actually played one game last April, registering an assist.
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Nam Y. Huh / The Associated Press FilesLead singer Ric Ocasek of the Cars.
The Cars: It’s just what they needed. American rock band The Cars is among the nominees being considered for induction next year in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also on the list are Janet Jackson, Steve Miller, Chicago and Cheap Trick. More than 800 artists and members of the music industry vote on the inductees, who will be announced in December.
Svetlana Alexievich: Investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. She won “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” the Swedish Academy said Thursday Alexievich has used eyewitness accounts to write on tragedies such as the Second World War, the Soviet-Afghan War and the disaster at Chernobyl.
On this date
On Oct. 8, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the arrival home of 14 grenadiers after service overseas would make for a real Thanksgiving for their families in Manitoba. Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s visit to postwar U.K. was said to be one of “exploration.” The last Canadian prisoners of war were to leave Manila. City Hydro advertised a new dam being constructed, free from wartime restrictions on materials. The Bank of Toronto was set to raze the historic Queen’s Hotel at Portage and Notre Dame Avenue to build a new office tower.
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