What you need to know
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA driver from SkipTheDishes, the food delivery service, picks up some food at local Winnipeg restaurant Monday.
Dishes drivers: A potential class-action lawsuit has been filed against Skip the Dishes by a former driver. She says couriers are entitled to benefits and the food-delivery service is violating labour laws. A company spokesperson says couriers aren’t employed by Skip the Dishes and are considered “independent contractors.” Katie May reports. READ MORE
Words hurt: Free speech doesn’t mean you’re free from consequences, Niigaan Sinclair writes in his latest column. Three Manitobans lost their positions because of inflammatory statements that went viral on social media this weekend. “Words matter — and they last,” Sinclair writes. READ MORE
What’s happening today
MAGGIE MACINTOSH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg police have received 98 long guns, 21 air guns, 17 handguns, four other items (including one cannonball), plus an unspecified amount of ammunition so far during June’s gun amnesty.
Final firearms numbers: The RCMP and Justice Minister Heather Stefanson will provide numbers from June’s gun amnesty program at a news conference early this afternoon. The Free Press will be there.
Talking tracks: Cando Rail Services, Liberal MP MaryAnn Mihychuk and RM of East St. Paul Mayor Shelley Hart will make an announcement about “improvements” to the Central Manitoba Railway this morning.
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be mainly cloudy with a high of 24 C and humidex of 28, a 60 per cent chance of showers with the risk of a thunderstorm, and wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 starting late this morning.
In case you missed it
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSCurrie Gillespie shows off a bike repair station on Acadamy Road at Ash street Monday.
Pit stops popping up: Free bike-repair stations are springing up around the city. Two new ones have been set up on Academy Road and in Transcona, and the company that makes them estimates at least another five will be available by the end of the summer. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
‘A little caution’: Many questions remain about the Jets as the off-season has “muddied the waters,” Mike McIntyre writes. He has a list of five key issues to keep an eye on. READ MORE
On this date
On July 31, 1918: The Manitoba Free Press reported that U.S. Army advanced its line two miles along the Alsne-Marne Front in the face of a German barrage. According to German soldiers captured in British raids, the Germans were no longer boastful about the outcome of the expected allied offensive.Canadian soldiers at the front were considered a credit to their country. It was estimated that the Great War was costing the people of Great Britain $1.5 million every hour. READ MORE
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