What you need to know
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Honduran migrants walking to the U.S. start their day departing Chiquimula, Guatemala, Wednesday.
‘Stop this onslaught’: U.S. President Donald Trump says he’ll order the U.S. military to close its southern border if Mexico can’t or won’t stop a large caravan of Central American migrants heading north, and cut off funding to the countries they are fleeing. READ MORE
’Everything and nothing changed’: The nation “didn’t go up in a puff of smoke” when cannabis became legal across Canada yesterday, Melissa Martin writes in her latest column. “The nation is different, yet still the same.” READ MORE
Dropping disinfectant: Indonesia’s disaster agency is using helicopters to spread disinfectant on the city of Palu in a bid reduce the risks of disease. The bodies of thousands killed in an earthquake and tsunami are belied to be buried in three devastated neighbourhoods.
Weather
Your forecast: Today will feel like summer compared with recent weather — sunny with a high of 18 C and wind from the southwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 starting in the early afternoon.
What’s happening today
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Playwright Ellen Peterson
Season starts: The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s season opens tonight with an adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility. Playwright Ellen Peterson tells Randall King she hadn’t read the book when she took the assignment. READ MORE
‘Threw it away’: The Jets host the Vancouver Canucks at 7 p.m. Reporter Jason Bell says the team has moved on after a third-period collapse led to an overtime loss Tuesday. “We had a game where we had everything under control and threw it away,” says forward Nikolaj Ehlers. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 18, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up diplomatic efforts to get a standstill ceasefire in the Middle East. Israel rejected a ceasefire proposed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. In Ottawa, the federal NDP leader disclosed the discovery that his party’s regular meetings on Parliament Hill had been bugged, a revelation that astonished MPs in light of the recent Watergate scandal in the U.S. READ MORE
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