Good morning!
Your forecast: This isn’t a trick. Just be grateful for the treats Environment Canada says we’ll be receiving this Halloween weekend. Ok, today looks bad. We’ve already received about five millimetres of rain overnight and more is expected to fall today, with a daytime high of just 6 C. You can get past this. Just think of it as the scariest house in the neighbourhood you and your friends ran by every Halloween night to get to the friendly folks down the block who handed out a pile of candy bars to every kid at their doorstep. That’s what’s coming our way — a pillowcase full of goodies, beginning Thursday with a sunny day and a high of 6 C followed by a mix of sun and cloud Friday and a high of 8 C. Then, Saturday will be spectacular, with sunshine, a daytime high of 13 C and single digits when the little ghosts and goblins hit the streets. And Sunday, when Kit Kats are the breakfast bar of choice, the temperature rises to 12 C by mid day under a bright blue sky.
In case you missed it
SubmittedShooting victim Calli Vanderaa and her father Corey.
Dad of shot teen speaks out: Calli Vanderaa, 16, had stopped with friends at a convenience store for a slushy drink last Friday night when she was shot while in a parked vehicle. When given the devastating news by city police, her dad, Corey, simply didn’t believe it, he told the Free Press. Investigators say the girl was an innocent victim and have laid criminal charges against two men, alleging they broke in to an RCMP officer’s car Friday night, stole the gun and then fired it in the convenience store parking lot a few hours later after getting into an argument with a group of youths. READ MORE
Fooling the scam artist: A couple of fraudsters trying to con a man out of $1,000 in an income-tax scam were instead fooled themselves by Winnipeg tax specialist Nate Brideau of FBC, a Winnipeg farm and small-business tax company. Brideau returned a call to someone identifying themselves as an employee of the Canada Revenue Agency and played along with two fraud artists for more than 45 minutes in two separate calls — recording the entire conversations — before identifying himself and having the con artists hang up on him. READ MORE
Jets victims of royal flush: The mighty Kings got the better of the Jets on Tuesday night. Tied 1-1 late in the third period, Los Angeles forward Milan Lucic scored the go-ahead goal and then the Kings notched two more with Winnipeg’s net empty for a 4-1 triumph in NHL play at the MTS Centre. The Jets close out a six-game home stand Thursday when the Chicago Blackhawks come to town. READ MORE
Up next
R-R-R-R: Pirates will be eager to attend today’s open house at a 4R Winnipeg Deport because, according to a joke that’s popular in elementary schoolyards, a pirate’s favourite letter of the alphabet is “R”. A 4R Depot is a place where residents (landlubbers as well as pirates) can drop off material they no longer have use for, but could be recycled, reused, composted or resold. The first 4R Winnipeg Depot will be located on Brady Road and is expected to open in late 2015. The second such depot, the Pacific Avenue 4R, is the subject of today’s come-and-go open house from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Cindy Klassen Recreation Complex, 999 Sargent Ave.
Halloween, circa 1900: Winnipeg’s Dalnavert Museum is summoning forth the supernatural-obsessed Victorian era with an unusual series of Halloween tours tonight, Thursday and Friday evenings. Lights will be turned low to give the historic mansion a ghostly ambiance, including stained glass that will be lit from the outside. Visitors this week will learn about the fortune-telling games such as séances popular at long-ago Halloweens, and enjoy treats from the time, including candy apples and cider. Dalnavert House, built in 1895, is entirely furnished in late Victorian style. Tours start at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $16 plus tax. READ MORE
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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSEvander Kane and Andrew Ladd.
Moving on: Winnipeg Jets captain Andrew Ladd spoke after the Jets morning skate at the MTS Centre on Tuesday morning and responded to accusations made by former teammate Evander Kane — who’s now a member of the Buffalo Sabres — in a story that appeared this week in The Hockey News. In the story, Kane charged that his Jets teammates and the organization didn’t have his back before he was traded to the Sabres last February. Ladd spoke about his team as a family and said he thought the players and organization did support Kane. “We’re having a great time in here and we’ve moved on and maybe he should, too,” Ladd said. READ MORE
What’s in a name: A Morden city councillor trying to get the local senior A men’s hockey team to change its Morden Redskins name had her motion defeated at a council meeting earlier this month. Heather Francis said she brought forward the motion because the Redskins name is offensive to both indigenous and non-indigenous people. She wanted council to send the team a letter requesting to change its name. Team general manager Brent Meleck said the Redskins team, which has won the most championships in the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League’s 64-year history, is not changing its name. READ MORE
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Matt Slocum / The Associated PressKansas City Royals celebrate after Alcides Escobar (2) scored on a sacrifice fly by Eric Hosmer during the 14th inning of Game 1 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the New York Mets Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.
#WorldSeries: It was a long four minutes for baseball fans, as game one of the World Series in Kansas City, Mo., disappeared from the air when Fox lost power. Viewers at home lost the picture at the bottom of the fourth inning, and though power was restored, it was an inauspicious start to the series. The Kansas City Royals outlasted the New York Mets to win 5-4. READ MORE
#CursedChild: Legions of Harry Potter fans were queuing up for the release of tickets to performances of J.K. Rowling’s new play, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which tells the story of Harry and his son Albus. The play opens in June 2016.
On this date
On Oct. 28, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the king of England was considering conferring upon his future son-in-law, Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the title Duke of Edinburgh, and possibly also creating for him a British princedom. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the wartime leader of Poland’s government-in-exile, had fled to Stockholm from Communist rule in Poland. Winnipeg donors to the Community Chest Drive pushed the total money raised close to the $100,000-mark. Ex-air force servicemen completed an aerial survey of Winnipeg. St. Boniface applied to the CMHC for 200 more wartime houses. Six members of a former Elmwood family were lost in a boating disaster in Scotland.
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