Good morning!
Your Forecast: It will be a little cruddy this morning, overcast with a 30 per cent chance of showers. Bonus points if the sun actually peeks through at all today. The expected high is 18 C. Things look positively summery for Friday and Saturday, with lots of sunshine and highs of 25 C and 29 C, respectively. And there are many more sunny, warm days ahead next week as we say so long to September.
In case you missed it
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESFrom left, Paul Gross, director, writer and star in the movie Hyena Road with actors Allan Hawco, Rossif Sutherland and Christine Horne at the Grant Park Cinemas for media interviews.
Shilo on the big screen: Hundreds of people packed the Centennial Concert Hall on Wednesday night for the premiere of Canadian actor-producer-director Paul Gross’s latest feature film, Hyena Road. Partially filmed at CFB Shilo last fall, the Manitoba base doubles as an Afghanistan command post. Hyena Road opens in Winnipeg theatres Oct. 9. READ MORE
CMHR, a year in review: Just over 180,000 people paid to see the exhibits at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights during its first year of operation at The Forks in Winnipeg. Tours started on Sept. 27, 2014, about a week after a ceremonial opening. All 11 galleries within the museum were completed by Nov. 11. The institution actually had nearly 386,000 visitors but half involved complimentary admissions, restaurant or gift shop visits, or people attending special events hosted at the museum. READ MORE
Judge chastises CFS: During the sentencing of a 33-year-old man for sex crimes against children, a senior Manitoba judge scolded the province’s child welfare department for its handling of one case, in particular. One teen was placed in the man’s care in 2011 by Child and Family Services, but the arrangement opened the door to a litany of sex crimes, said Judge Murray Thompson. “It is clear that no criminal record check was performed… a simple background check would have revealed the accused had a three-page criminal record spanning 15 years for violent offences including armed robbery, had just been released from jail, had a history of substance abuse and was not a suitable candidate to parent this child,” the judge noted. READ MORE
Up next
French Connection: The federal leaders are in Montreal tonight for their first French-language debate, one that could break the three-way deadlock that has defined this long, long race so far. The NDP is well ahead in the Quebec polls but the province is in an ‘anyone-but-Conservative’ mood and could turn to the Liberals if leader Justin Trudeau scores big on television tonight. READ MORE
MS controversy: Multiple Sclerosis patient/activist Matt Embry speaks today at 7:30 p.m. at the Viscount Gort Hotel. Embry sparked controversy when he posted an online video about the use of donor money by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, using the society’s tax filings to show only 16 cents on the dollar was spent on research from 2010-13. He advocates a revolutionary diet, exercise and drug-free regime that he says has kept him symptom-free after two decades of living with the disease, and has been adopted by MS patients around the world.
Around the water cooler
L’Osservatore Romano / Pool Photo via The Associated PressU.S. President Barack Obama (right), first lady Michelle Obama (left) and Pope Francis wave to the crowd on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Wednesday.
Papal visit: Pope Francis is in Washington as part of an official visit to the U.S. Not only did Catholics and other onlookers get to see the historic meeting between the first Latino pope and the first black U.S. president, but today Pope Francis becomes the first pope to address Congress. READ MORE
Blue Jays in control: A 4-0 shutout of the New York Yankees on Wednesday night lifted the Toronto Blue Jays 3.5 games ahead of the Pinstripers in the race to win Major League Baseball’s American League East Division. The Jays have 10 games left in the season, starting with a three-game series Friday at home against the Tampa Rays. New York, meanwhile, has 11 left, including a four-game series against the Boston Red Sox starting tonight at Yankee Stadium. READ MORE
Candidates in position: In Manitoba, the New Democrats say they now have a full slate of candidates in place for the upcoming federal election. The party appointed Dean Harder, 35, to run in Portage-Lisgar last week. Harder is, perhaps, best known for his battle against eliminating the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, and in 2011, was ejected from the public gallery in the House of Commons after he stood up to protest the government’s plan. The Liberals have had a full slate in Manitoba for months. The Conservatives still have nobody on the ballot in Churchill – Keewatinook Aski, with just under four weeks to go before the election. READ MORE
Trending now
Czarek Sokolowski / The Associated Press FilesVisitors from around the world passing under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei ‘Work Sets You Free’ sign over the main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.
Auschwitz: It’s not good when Auschwitz is trending on Yom Kippur, and even worse when it involves a federal candidate. After an old Facebook comment surfaced this week, Hamilton-area NDP candidate Alex Johnstone conceded she’d never heard of the infamous Nazi concentration camp. She apologized for making a silly comment on a friend’s travel photo of the camp’s fence, but the damage was done. READ MORE
#GoJetsGo: “It feels so good to say that again!” says one Winnipeg Jets fan on Twitter. Indeed, our boys of winter are back on the ice as the NHL preseason kicked off this week.
On this date
On Sept. 24, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that 49 survivors and two bodies had been retrieved from the North Atlantic following a Flying Tiger Lines airline crash. A further 25 people were still missing. Liberal Party Leader Lester B. Pearson said nothing was more urgent than a federal election, and urged other opposition parties to bring down the government at the first opportunity; support was lukewarm. Prince Charles shot his first stag while hunting with the Duke of Edinburgh. The gunshot death of a seven-year-old Stonewall girl was being investigated by the RCMP. Provincial Welfare Minister John Christianson was to mediate a dispute between Inco management and indigenous people in northern Manitoba who said they could not get jobs at the Thompson nickel plant.
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