Good morning!
Step up parents: As Manitoba students return to school today, many children feel anxiety. Parents can empathize by remembering how it hurts to be humiliated by the mean kids, to feel you are too thin, too fat, too geeky, to worry you won’t be athletic enough to make the teams, or smart enough to bring home grades that meet your parents’ unrealistic expectations. This is a day for parents to step up with enthusiastic support. As children venture alone into a jungle of social perils, arm them with encouragement. Embolden them by recounting their strengths and past successes. Remind them it’s our attitude that sometimes makes the difference.
Your forecast: Unfortunately, there’s a chance of rain today, which brings for students the distressing possibility of indoor recess or hiding new first-day-of-school outfits under ugly raincoats. The Environment Canada forecast calls for increasing cloudiness in the morning, with a 40 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon and 10 to 15 mm of rain in the evening. Today’s high will be 19 C.
In case you missed it
Churchill Gateway Development Corp.The closure of Churchill’s port affects more than 70 people of the northern town’s workforce, almost 10 per cent of the town of 800.
NDP denies it: In a legal statement of defence, former Manitoba premier Greg Selinger and one of his top ministers, Steve Ashton, deny interference with Omnitrax Canada’s negotiations to sell the Port of Churchill. They were responding to a lawsuit filed in April — just days before the provincial election — that alleges the NDP government broke a non-disclosure agreement by giving confidential information to a First Nation as Omnitrax was negotiating to sell the Hudson Bay Railway and Port of Churchill to a consortium of 10 northern Manitoba First Nations. READ MORE
Fuel fiasco: A Transportation Safety Board investigation released Tuesday into the crash of a Keystone Air plane near Thompson almost a year ago says the wrong fuel was pumped into the tanks before takeoff. The crash, which injured all six passengers and both pilots, ultimately led to the cancellation of Keystone’s air operator licence last December. The airline had its licence suspended at least twice previously, and has had at least five crashes since 2000. READ MORE
Up next
Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press FILESGoldeye pitcher Mikey O’Brien
Goldeyes in playoffs: Winnipeg Goldeyes (58-42) open the American Association playoffs this evening at Shaw Park against St. Paul (61-39). Game 2 is set for Thursday, with the remaining three contests to be played Saturday, Sunday and Monday in Minnesota. READ MORE
Museum free: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is preparing for Canada’s 150th birthday year with free admission today from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visitors are invited to share photos, stories and Canadian pride using #Canada150 and #AtCMHR and be eligible for a prize pack including a museum membership and merchandise. Special visual props will be available outside (imagine a giant red balloon) and inside the museum, along with music by Boogey the Beat, an Anishinaabe hip-hop DJ.
Around the water cooler
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSUniversity of Winnipeg student Melissa Thomas shows off her new Peggo card.
Fair fares?: Free Press reporter Bailey Hildebrand-Russell talked to many city transit passengers on Tuesday for their opinion of changes Winnipeg Transit has made to its fare system, including the introduction of new metal bus tokens to replace cardboard tickets, and the introduction of a reloadable smart card called Peggo. READ MORE
Firefighter avoids jail: Jason Hyra, 46, a firefighter twice convicted of criminal harassment for stalking women, avoided jail during his sentencing Tuesday. He got a two-year conditional sentence followed by three years of supervised probation. Justice Shawn Greenberg said she believed sending the firefighter to jail would only worsen his obsessive behavior, and she believes it’s best to “rehabilitate him by treatment or theapy”. READ MORE
Trending now
#TIFF16: The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday, but it’s already trending on Twitter. The landmark festival attracts thousands to the city, including plenty of filmmakers and stars of the silver screen.
#HighSchoolIn5Words: Whether you’re just starting out, or are in the middle of it, or are looking back, how would you sum up the final stretch of school years? Some thoughts from Twitter: “Did you do the homework?” “Why is everyone so fake,” “Locker combination induced anxiety disorder” and “Disney channel lied to us.”
On this date
On Sept. 7, 1929: The Manitoba Free Press reported in its 26th annual crop estimate that while the returns in wheat were only 50 per cent of those in 1928, that given the quantity of wheat already harvested and having been done at a minimum of expense, the financial returns would offset the loss in quantity of bushels. At a meeting in Switzerland, the League of Nations heard that Great Britain would retain its Palestine mandate, as outlined in the 1917 Balfour declaration. In British Columbia, sales of liquor reached a new high, totalling nearly $25 million. READ MORE
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