What you need to know
SASHA SEFTER / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg Raptors fans watch the game on the rooftop patio of the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre.
No rapture for fans: The Toronto Raptors failed to clinch their first NBA championship last night, losing by one point after blowing a late lead as people across Canada watched. The Raptors, who lead the series 3-2, face the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 in Oakland on Thursday. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Increasingly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this morning and early this afternoon, and wind from the south at 30 km/h and then from the north at 30 km/h starting later this morning.
What’s happening today
Fielding more fraud calls: The number of complaints to the city’s fraud and waste hotline increased by more than 25 per cent in 2018 and was more than double the calls received in 2016. The numbers are listed in the audit department’s annual report, which is on the agenda at this morning’s executive police committee meeting.
Speaking strategy: The federal and provincial governments will make a joint announcement under the National Housing Strategy at a news conference on Princess Street this afternoon.
Eyes on Iowa: U.S. President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the early front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, are both campaigning in Iowa after attacking each other for months. READ MORE
In case you missed it
SASHA SEFTER / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWorkers tear down the remnants of a film set at 514 Wellington Cres. in preparation for the owner to have the house levelled.
Keeping watch in Crescentwood: Area residents seeking to prevent the demotion of a historic mansion are being stationed at the property in shifts as they dig in for a battle to designate Crescentwood as a conservation district. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Attack from above: A bird resembling a hawk that has been dive-bombing people on a Transcona street injured a nine-year-old girl who was on her way to school Monday morning. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 11, 1970: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Canadian tobacco industry announced that cash prizes and major gifts associated with various brands of Canadian cigarettes would not be offered or advertised; the move was in response to government authorities’ criticism of these practices. Manitoba premier Ed Schreyer told the legislature that the province would assume more of the cost of education in the coming year, meaning property taxes would drop but other levies such as sales tax and income tax would be higher. READ MORE
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