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Osborne Village surprise: A $30-million plan for redeveloping the Village’s Gas Station Arts Centre has been considerably downsized. A 55-unit co-op housing complex and parkade have been dropped from the plans. Reporter Murray McNeil tells how developers couldn’t get adequate funding support from the city. READ MORE
Your forecast: Cloudy today with a high of 18 C. Clearing tonight with a low of 5 C.
In case you missed it
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSPremier Brian Pallister speaks about the release of the auditor general’s report on the Manitoba East Side Road Authority.
Rocky road: The former East Side Road Authority was as unpopular in Manitoba as the Saskatchewan Roughriders after the release Tuesday of an audit that said the authority was slipshod in managing the $3-billion East Side Road. Will the road ever be built? Columnist Dan Lett notes it’s not a walk in the park to build a 1,000-kilometre road through dense bush: “The costs of materials, labour and a difficult environment make it a logistical and engineering nightmare.” READ MORE
Democracy’s future: As Marshall McLuhan said, “Youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.” His sentiment is certainly true in Manitoba, where a report by Elections Manitoba on Tuesday said more than half of young adults eligible to vote in the past provincial election didn’t cast ballots. Reporter Nick Martin explains who is not voting, and why they don’t bother. READ MORE
Up next
Port support: Between 8 and 9 a.m. today, members of the union representing laid-off workers at the Port of Churchill will gather at 191 Lombard Avenue to welcome OmniTrax executives from Denver, Colorado, who are meeting the union for the first time since the layoffs were announced. Reporter Kristin Annable will be there.
Alert Ready: At 3:55 p.m. today, Manitoba radios and TVs will be commandeered briefly for a province-wide test of an emergency system called Alert Ready. The system lets authorized government agencies transmit crucial emergency information for events such as tornados, flash floods, wildfires and biohazards.
Around the water cooler
YONG TECK LIM / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSA driver, right, gets his hands off of the steering wheel of an autonomous vehicle during its test drive in Singapore. The city will look to other municipalities to see how the technology will disrupt planning.
Driverless cars: A city committee agreed on Tuesday to “extensive analysis” on the future impact of self-driving cars in Winnipeg. A report is expected in 180 days, looking at possible impacts on transit, road design, car-share programs and taxis. Reporter Aldo Santin has details. READ MORE
Post-police: The public is invited to offer suggestions on the future of the now-vacant Public Safety Building and the adjacent crumbling Civic parkade. A series of public meetings will gauge how the public wants to see the 2.4-acre property developed after the old police headquarters and adjoining parkade are demolished. READ MORE
Trending now
#ThisIsUs: The new NBC show has Twitter abuzz after its first episode, not least because of many (many, many) One Direction fans who thought the hashtag was about the band.
Shawty: Atlanta rapper Carlos Walker, a.k.a. Shawty Lo, died in a fatal car collision this morning. He was 40 years old.
On this date
On Sept. 21, 1998: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Winnipeg MP and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy was leading an effort to get Canada a coveted seat on the UN Security Council. Roughly 96,000 Winnipeggers braved a gloomy morning to take part in the annual Terry Fox Run for cancer research. Six-year-old angler Nicole Garcia caught the prize-winning silver bass at the Kinsmen fishing derby in Selkirk, worth about $8,000 in prizes. READ MORE
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