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MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Josephine pushed north from the U.S. Northeast coast early Thursday, bringing some coastal flooding and possible gale-force winds to the Eastern Seaboard.
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MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Josephine pushed north from the U.S. Northeast coast early Thursday, bringing some coastal flooding and possible gale-force winds to the Eastern Seaboard.
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MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Josephine pushed north from the U.S. Northeast coast early Thursday, bringing some coastal flooding and possible gale-force winds to the Eastern Seaboard.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was centered about 265 miles (425 kilometers) south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and about 585 miles (940 kilometers) southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Josephine was forecast to continue moving away from the United States and remain south of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
The National Weather Service posted a gale warning for parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, meaning winds above 39 mph (63 kph) were possible through midmorning Friday. Small watercraft were also advised of hazardous conditions south to North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Minor to moderate coastal flooding was also expected to continue through the week on the mid-Atlantic coast.
In the Pacific, Tropical Storm Vance was well off Mexico’s southwestern coast and may intensify to a major hurricane.
It had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) late Wednesday and was forecast to become a hurricane Thursday and a major hurricane Saturday, the U.S. center said.
Vance was located about 505 miles (815 kilometers) south of Acapulco, Mexico.
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Storm Josephine brings high winds and possible coastal flooding to Eastern Seaboard
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Storm Josephine brings high winds and possible coastal flooding to Eastern Seaboard
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MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Josephine pushed north from the U.S. Northeast coast early Thursday, bringing some coastal flooding and possible gale-force winds to the Eastern Seaboard.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was centered about 265 miles (425 kilometers) south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and about 585 miles (940 kilometers) southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Josephine was forecast to continue moving away from the United States and remain south of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
The National Weather Service posted a gale warning for parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, meaning winds above 39 mph (63 kph) were possible through midmorning Friday. Small watercraft were also advised of hazardous conditions south to North Carolina's Outer Banks.
U of W, former professor sued over alleged sex assault
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A woman who studied and worked at the University of Winnipeg has filed a lawsuit against the post-secondary institution and her former professor — a convicted sex offender — who she alleges drugged and sexually assaulted her.
The woman, a former international student from the United Kingdom and teaching assistant at the university, claims her professor and “mentor,” Derek Spencer, put a date-rape drug in her drink and groped her following a Christmas party for professors and graduate students in 2019.
“The assailant secretly placed a date-rape drug in her drink without consent and sexually assaulted her while she was in an altered and vulnerable state,” reads the woman’s statement of claim, filed in the Court of King’s Bench earlier this month.
“She suffered grave psychological and physical harm as a result.”
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Winnipeg business closure scare leads Hydro to reschedule planned outage
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Manitoba Hydro has cancelled a planned River Heights neighbourhood outage after a miscommunication led to area businesses fearing unexpected closure.
Hydro had planned to shut down power along Lanark and Renfrew streets between Corydon Avenue and John Brebeuf Place on Friday.
Overhead electrical maintenance work can only be done with the power off, during the day, for safety reasons, Hydro spokesman Peter Chura said. It chose Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. because St. John Brebeuf School had an in-service day.
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Can’t have our cake and eat it, too
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Last month, the City of Winnipeg said it would soon begin to study ways to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety along Osborne Street, which runs between two of the city’s densest neighbourhoods, where residents walk and bike for many of their daily activities. As someone who lives in South Osborne and who has frequented the shops and restaurants of the Village since my university days over 20 years ago, these changes can’t come soon enough.
Imagine my frustration when I read that this study of the street between Broadway and the St. Vital Bridge will take place “over the next year” to find “quick” solutions. We’ve all been through the COVID-19 pandemic, during which cities around the world found rapid solutions to improve safety and encourage more walking, biking and transit. Entire manuals have been published on easy things our city could try, literally this weekend, to improve the safety of Osborne Street.
Perhaps the reason this project is going to take a year can be found in this quote from David Patman, the city’s manager of transportation: “Osborne Street is currently serving multiple, competing functions … It exists in a dense, pedestrian-oriented development area that is close to rapid transit, which is at odds with the high flow of motor vehicles that travel daily along the corridor.”
Mr. Patman has correctly identified Osborne Street as a “stroad”. A stroad is a dangerous, inefficient combination of a street and a road. Stroads try to be the best of both worlds, and they fail at both. Charles Marohn, author of Strong Towns, offers the best analogy — a stroad is like a futon, which is both a terrible couch and an uncomfortable bed. You try to save money on two functions, but neither is right.