Good morning!
Your forecast: Hang onto your hats today because it’s going to be a breezy one. You might need an umbrella if you’re out and about tonight. Environment Canada is calling for a mainly cloudy day with winds from the south blowing 20 km/h but gusting to 40 – 60 km/h in the afternoon. The high will be 18 C. There’s also a 60 per cent chance of showers tonight. It’s much the same for Thursday but the sky clears by Friday morning, setting up a well-above-average first weekend of October. On Saturday, expect sunshine and a high of 17 C, while Sunday should be sunny and 15 C.
In case you missed it
WINNIPEG FREE PRESSDiana Stewart and Brad Mason, parents of Samantha Mason, 15, killed herself after being bullied by classmates.
Teens victims of ‘sextortion’: Hundreds of teens have contacted the Canadian Centre for Child Protection for help in removing explicit photos of themselves from the Internet. The centre typically received one report per month of teens who’d had their explicit images shared without their permission. This year, that number has almost tripled. The effects on teens of what often amounts to online blackmail or harassment has led to depression and suicide. READ MORE
Liquor and Lotteries gets new HQ: The MLL will buy the Medical Arts building, renovate the first five floors, and build an expansion over the existing surface parking lot as part of its plan for its new headquarters. New and existing tenants, mostly medical offices, will occupy the top ten floors. The plan is expected to cost $74 million. READ MORE
Up next
Crystal Schick / Free Press files’I’m very thankful I continue to receive support of my constituents,” says Joyce Bateman.
Up for debate: Winnipeg South Centre holds its federal election debate tonight at the Asper Jewish Community Campus from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. All candidates have agreed to participate and this is one of the tightest races in Winnipeg. Incumbent Conservative MP Joyce Bateman faces off against Liberal candidate Jim Carr, Green Party candidate Andrew Park and NDP candidate Matt Henderson.
Refugee’s dramatic arrival: A Somali refugee who swam across the Red River near Emerson to reach Canada gets his day in court today. More accurately, he gets his day in front of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Free Press reporter Carol Sanders, who initially reported the dramatic border crossing of Yahya Samatar, will cover his appearance today at the refugee protection hearing. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
John Woods / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg Jets’ Andrew Ladd (16), Dustin Byfuglien (33) and Blake Wheeler (26) celebrate Ladd’s game tying goal against the Ottawa Senators during third period.
No, really, they won: If you clicked off the TV or turned the radio dial with the Jets still down 3-0 to the Senators, you missed a heck of a finish at MTS Centre on Tuesday night. Sure, it’s just the NHL preseason. But a big 4-3 comeback victory in overtime for Winnipeg was long overdue, considering the club came into the contest with Ottawa 0-4 in exhibition play. Jets’ centre Mark Scheifele fired the OT winner two minutes into the 3-on-3 affair past Sens’ goalie Andrew Hammond. READ MORE
Concert a big hit: A 60-year-old Winnipeg woman is guilty of punching a security guard in the face during an alcohol-fuelled tantrum on the floor of a John Fogerty concert. The woman was convicted of assault this week following a one-day trial. She had denied any wrongdoing, claiming three staff members at the MTS Centre accosted her for no reason during the November 2014 event. But a provincial court judge didn’t agree, favouring the testimony of the guard who was punched, several colleagues and a Winnipeg police officer who were all on scene and dealt with an intoxicated woman. She received a conditional discharge — which includes a provision for anger management. READ MORE
Trending now
Geordon Omand / THE CANADIAN PRESSA scale model of the new Vancouver Art Gallery facility is shown here, with an artist’s concept in the background, on display in the Art Gallery.
Vancouver Art Gallery: Indeed, the conceptual design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery has people talking. Social media in Canada is abuzz after gallery executives revealed the long design of its new, nearly 30,000-square-metre facility Tuesday. People on Twitter tossed out words such as “elegant” and “brilliant” to “repulsive” and “super ugly” to describe the design, which resembles a stack of enormous wooden boxes rising 70 metres above street level in Vancouver’s downtown.
#OddWaysToStartAEulogy: They do know to have fun on Twitter. People are coming up with unique, hilarious or, at times, just plain tasteless ways to begin a eulogy. You be the judge: “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life,” poached from the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy”; “Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘stabbed’ as…”; “For those of you live tweeting this, the wi-fi password is stanleyisdead, no spaces and all lowercase”; and “I think we should start by admitting we’re all here for the buffet.”
On this date
On Sept. 30, 1890: The Manitoba Free Press reported that John Reginald Burchill, charged with the murder of C. Benwell in Blenheim, Ont., was found guilty and sentenced to hang. The case had attracted such attention that “it exceeds anything in the history of Canadian jurisprudence.” Under the “Telegrams” section, the newspaper reported that Mr. Locker, dairy expert for the Canadian Pacific Colonization Co. at Queenstown, was found dead on the prairie near Glechen. The newspaper claimed “At least seventy-five per cent of the matter, purporting to be telegrams, published by any other paper in Manitoba, consists of rehashed and re-dated clippings, 24 to 72 hours old, from this paper and other exchanges, and concoctions.”
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