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Your forecast: The last long weekend of summer had a rocky start but ended smoothly, with a terrific holiday Monday. Now, Environment Canada has offered up a relatively consistent forecast for the first few days of the new week – and a few pleasant days of recess when kids return to school — with daytime highs around 18 C today, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday under mostly sunny skies. There is a 30 per cent chance of showers late in the morning today and after lunch. Looking ahead, the mercury could rise to 24 C Saturday and 22 C Sunday.
In case you missed it
PHOTO BY JEFF FRENCHA fire at a natural gas pipeline compressor station south of the U.S. border near Emerson burns brightly on Saturday night.
Boom south of border: A ruptured gas pipeline just south of the Manitoba border sent flames shooting up into the air Saturday at about 8:30 p.m. Two families were forced to evacuate their homes near Emerson as a precaution, but returned by 11 p.m. The nearby local volunteer fire department in Emerson was called out to the fire, said local fire chief Jeff French. “You could see it from miles away,” he said, describing flames six to 10 metres high. READ MORE
Clara’s big secret: Winnipeg’s favourite two-sport athlete, Clara Hughes, disclosed some startling news in her newly released memoir. Hughes says she tested positive for the banned substance ephedrine in 1994 and that she notified the Canadian cycling team’s national director. But the violation was intentionally kept quiet, she says. Hughes competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics for Canada, winning medals in cycling and speed skating. READ MORE
Up next
Chris Pizzello / Invision / The Associated Press FilesJanet Jackson
Janet Jackson: The singer and dancer perhaps best known for being Michael Jackson’s little sister – and an infamous wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl in 2004 – hits Winnipeg tonight for her Unbreakable World Tour. There are still tickets available for her MTS Centre concert, if you want to be part of Rhythm Nation for one night only.
Campaigns rolling along: Summer holidays are over, kids are back in classrooms this week and it’s time to pay some attention to the federal election campaign. Well, isn’t it? The party leaders aren’t anywhere near Manitoba but they do have a busy day on the campaign trail with the race to the Oct. 19 vote kicking into high gear. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will be in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will take the Tory message to suburban Toronto and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair begins the day in Montreal before an evening stop in Toronto.
Around the water cooler
Handout / Carter County Detention Center / TNSKim Davis
Showing his support: U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a rally in Louisville, Ky., to support clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue a marriage to same-sex couples despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. READ MORE
Tough day for Tories: The federal Conservatives dumped a pair of Toronto candidates on Monday. Tim Dutaud is no longer running in the riding of Toronto-Dansforth after it was learned he apparently made prank calls where he faked an orgasm and also pretends to be mentally disabled. Meanwhile, Scarborough-Rouge Park candidate Jerry Bance was also turfed after it became known he was caught on videotape in 2012 urinating into a mug when he was on a service call as a repairman. READ MORE
Trending now
#BlueBombers: Indeed, folks are getting more than a little restless as Winnipeg’s beloved CFL club continues to struggle mightily. The last straw came Sunday when the Bombers were thumped 37-19 by the previously winless Saskatchewan Roughriders in the annual Labour Day Classic, prompting tweets like ‘The Bombers are brutal’ and ‘Some things never change.’ The Bombers, now 3-7, have lost four straight games. READ MORE
Jon Hamm: The Mad Men star and his longtime girlfriend, actress Jennifer Westfeldt, have split after 18 years of dating, social media and entertainment news sites are confirming. Who cares, you ask? Twittersphere says plenty.
On this date
On September 8, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the United States planned to build a barbed-wire barrier with electronic monitoring between North and South Vietnam. In a confusing move, John Diefenbaker filed nomination papers for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, calling for the party convention to adopt a stance on the “two-nation” policy for the country, which he opposed. A long strike was expected at automaker Ford. University of Winnipeg president RL Rev. W. C. Lockhart wanted the U of W, given its new status as a university on July 1, to mesh with urban society. Four hundred construction workers walked off the job at Manitoba Hydro’s Nelson River project, complaining of poor quality food.
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