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Zebra mussels ruin beaches: Reporter Kevin Rollason and photographer Phil Hossack spent a day at the beach on Thursday, and it was horrible. Zebra mussels in formerly beautiful Lake Winnipeg locations like Beaconia Beach and Island Beach were about a third of a metre deep in places. Cottager Evelyn Johannson said: “I wouldn’t go in that water now.” READ MORE
Your forecast: For Bomber fans flocking to the stadium today for the game against Edmonton Eskimos, the forecast promises excellent football weather. It’s expected to be mainly sunny, with a high of 20 C and wind from the south at 20 km/h, gusting to 40 km/h.
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Port of Churchill
Smiling in Churchill: Churchill will get good news today, for a change. Ottawa politicians are coming to town and Free Press reporter Mia Rabson has learned they will announce $4.6 million for immediate economic development programs. The funding comes at the same time as a poll done for the Free Press shows two-thirds of Manitobans moderately or strongly support the idea that Ottawa resume ownership of the Port and the associated Hudson Bay Railway. READ MORE
Emterra trashed: Emterra is being replaced as the city’s primary garbage collector, and it’s about time if complaints from the public are a measure. A report released this summer said there were almost 38,000 complaints to 311 about garbage, recycling and yard-waste collection last year. Kristin Annable reports. READ MORE
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Sen. Murray Sinclair
Orange Shirt Day: many people today will be wearing orange shirts, in honour of Orange Shirt Day. In its fourth year nationally, the day promotes awareness of residential school history. Senator Murray Sinclair, who headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will meet the media at 10:15 a.m.
Around the water cooler
Double dose of Edmonton: The Edmonton Oilers are in Winnipeg tonight for an exhibition NHL game against the Jets. The Edmonton Eskimos are in Winnipeg tonight for a CFL game against the Blue Bombers. Do you think the two Edmonton teams carpooled?
Deepwater Horizon: Reviewer Randall King has seen the new movie Deepwater Horizon, and he says it’s a disaster — literally: “So when hell breaks loose, and the oil rig’s safety precautions unilaterally fail, the stage is set for calamity involving geysers of flame, flying glass and more crashing metal than a Transformers film festival.” READ MORE
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The artist impression provided on the website of the European Space Agency shows ESA’s Rosetta cometary probe.
#CometLanding: The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, in which a probe will land on the surface of a comet, will come to completion today. Rosetta has already collected a huge amount of data during its approach, but today is the day it makes contact. The ESA is providing updates as it happens. READ MORE
#LukeCage: One of Marvel Comics’ high-profile black superheroes gets his own show, with the first season about the New York “hero for hire” with unbreakable skin streaming on Netflix, starting today. Luke Cage, played by Mike Colter, previously appeared in the first series of “Jessica Jones,” part of Marvel’s linked superhero shows on the streaming TV service.
On this date
On Sept. 30, 1918: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Belgian forces had succeeded in capturing Dixmude from the Germans and Belgium was now in control of Zarren, Stadenburg, Paschendaele and Moorslede; in the face of continued onslaughts from British, Canadian and French forces, the Teutonic alliance’s bullwarks were said to be “everywhere crumbling.” READ MORE
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