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Ng Han Guan / The Associated Press FilesOliver Stone
Your forecast: It might be filmmaker Oliver Stone’s birthday today – he’s 69, by the way — but there’s no conspiracy behind the forecast this week. We’re looking at typical September weather, with mild days, cool nights, a bit of rain and sunshine just around the corner. Expect a mostly cloudy day and a high of 26 C today, with showers and temperatures in the high teens expected for Wednesday and Thursday. The sky clears Friday, paving the way for a warm, sunny weekend with temperatures in the mid-20s.
In case you missed it
Winnipeg School Division trustee Mike Babinsky. (Boris Minkevich / Winnipeg Free Press files)
WSD bars trustee: Mike Babinsky is forbidden from doing any work as a trustee in the Winnipeg School Division for a month after an investigation revealed he repeatedly harassed an unidentified division employee. In addition to being barred til mid-October, the controversial trustee must apologize to the employee and enrol in respectful workplace and anger management training. An independent investigator determined that Babinsky had repeatedly intimidated and humiliated a staff member. The harassment was not sexual in nature. READ MORE
Search continues for little girl: RCMP continue to search early this morning for a missing two-year-old girl after her father was killed inside a home in southwestern Alberta. An Amber Alert was issued Monday for Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, 2. Police believe she was taken from her home by someone in a newer-model white van with a large rear antenna and a flag flying from it. Her father, Terry Blanchette, was found dead in his home in Blairmore, Alta., about 220 km southwest of Calgary. READ MORE
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Winnipeg Free Press filesAn artist’s rendering of the proposed multi-use, 55-storey SkyCity development at Graham Avenue and Smith Street.
The high life: There is a preview event today for SkyCity Centre, a planned 45-storey downtown building that would be the tallest structure in Manitoba. People curious about the 388 proposed residential units can go to 279 Garry St., between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. to tour a model suite and view floor plans.
Sewage shame: Admittedly, raw sewage is not a recommended topic for polite company. But if you feel it’s wrong, disgustingly wrong, for sewage overflows to foul Winnipeg rivers dozens of times a year, the solutions will be presented at an open house tonight. Fixing the problem could be the largest and most expensive infrastructure project in Winnipeg’s history. The open house is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave.
Around the water cooler
Richard Drew / The Associated Press FilesVictoria Beckham
No reunion for Beckham: Stop right now, Posh – and tell Spice Girls fans you’ll reconsider. Apparently, Victoria Beckham has informed the old gang she won’t be part of the Spice Girls reunion next year, but has given them her blessing. That means the 41-year-old designer won’t join Geri Horner, Emma Bunton, Mel C and Mel B on tour next year to mark 20 years since their debut single ‘Wannabe’ and first album ‘Spice’. The Spice Girls last performed together at the 2012 London Olympics. READ MORE
Off to Old Blighty: If Posh Spice won’t be on tour, maybe you can take a trip to her mother country thanks to the new direct flights out of Winnipeg to Britain’s Gatwick airport. WestJet announced the beginning of its direct service Monday to London’s second-largest international airport. READ MORE
Surplus good news for Tories: At a time when the Conservatives needed some positives coming out of their election campaign, they got it from Finance Canada – a surprise $1.9-billion surplus at the end of the fiscal year. The timing is good for Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he prepares for a leadership debate on the economy this week. READ MORE
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HBOEffie Brown
#damonsplaining: on the fourth-season première of HBO’s “Project Greenlight,” actor Matt Damon held forth on Hollywood’s lack of diversity. The problem? Damon chose to interrupt Effie Brown — a black, female producer — while she was in the midst of highlighting this exact issue. Many in social media are encouraging Damon to take a seat for this convo.
#ManBooker2015: A U.S. Pulitzer Prize winner and the first Jamaican author to be nominated are both on the shortlist for the Booker Prize, worth 50,000-pounds (US$77,000). American writer Anne Tyler is nominated for “A Spool of Blue Thread” and Jamaica’s Marlon James got the nod for “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” which centres on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley. There are six finalists and the winner will be announced on Oct. 16
On this date
On Sept. 15, 2002: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a zoning difficulty put the Academy Coffee House in danger of closing. A sewage lagoon in Miniota had been leaking since 1965, with public officials’ knowledge. The son of a taxi driver slain in a robbery the previous year said the existing taxi shields were inadequate.
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