What you need to know
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer participates in a radio interview in Toronto, Ont. Thursday October 17, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Election campaign nearly over: Today is the final weekday of campaigning. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier are in Quebec, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May are on Vancouver Island, and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will be in ridings outside Toronto. READ MORE
No vote: Manitoba Hydro workers who will be away from home Monday working to fix damage from last week’s snow storm won’t be able to cast ballots in that day’s federal election. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Another home loss: The Jets have lost three consecutive games at Bell MTS Place and have allowed a league-worst seven power play goals this season. “The confidence certainly is a little bit low on that right now,” captain Blake Wheeler said of the team’s penalty-killing after Thursday night’s loss. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Weather
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City of Winnipeg workers clean up broken tree branches that line the boulevards in south River Heights on Thursday. The winter storm that pounded the city last weekend damaged many trees and branches throughout the city creating an overwhelming mess for city crews to clean up.
Your forecast: A mix of sun and cloud becoming overcast early this afternoon, with a high of 13 C and peak winds from the southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50. Meanwhile, Maggie Macintosh and Aldo Santin have an update on the city’s cleanup efforts after last week’s storm. READ MORE
What’s happening today
Swedish activist and student Greta Thunberg walks off the stage after addressing the Climate Strike in Montreal on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. The Alberta government won’t seek out a meeting with teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, but Environment Minister Jason Nixon says he hopes she takes the time to learn about the province’s oil and gas industry. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Activist in Alberta: Swedish climate activist teen Greta Thunberg will join in a march through the streets of Edmonton to a rally at Alberta’s legislature today. A group of oil-and-gas supporters is planning a counter-rally at the same time. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Family’s escape from fire: A pregnant woman, her sister and a child had to jump from the roof of a home and into the arms of police to escape a fire allegedly set by a man on a rampage. “I was pretty scared, but I was more afraid for my daughter,” Shanae Harper told the Free Press. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Political tiff over post: The archbishop of Winnipeg, Richard Gagnon, says people in the Roman Catholic church are working hard to change their culture and structures to prevent abuse. The Free Press spoke to Gagnon after federal Liberal candidate Robert-Falcon Ouellette criticized another Winnipeg Centre candidate, the NDP’s Leah Gazan, for previously sharing a Facebook post stating “every practising Catholic is complicit” in abuse by “predatory priests.” Brenda Suderman reports. READ MORE
Sentenced for stabbing: Hailey Barker, 20, has been sentenced to eight years for fatally stabbing her mother in a home on Beaumont Bay in May 2018. Defence lawyer Leonard Tailleur said his client was neglected and abused as a child while in her mother’s care. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 18, 1919: The Manitoba Free Press reported that elections in Ontario held up Parliament, which was considering a bill on the Grand Trunk railroad as well as looking at measures to control the cocaine trade. The names of the four men who would represent Canada at a labour conference in Washington, D.C. were announced. In Russia, anti-Bolshevik forces kept fighting against the government, but there was conflicting information whether Petrograd, Gatchina or Pskov had been taken. READ MORE
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