What’s happening today
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau announces his resignation during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
New finance minister needed: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could name a new finance minister as early as today after Bill Morneau resigned as finance minister and as a member of Parliament on Monday evening. Morneau denied his exit was linked to the WE Charity controversy. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Telephone town hall: Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen and Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, are hosting a telephone town hall this evening on schools reopening next month. Meanwhile, most Winnipeg school divisions released their back-to-school plans Monday. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Confronting California killer: Rape victims of Joseph DeAngelo, known as the Golden State Killer, will confront him in a Sacramento courtroom as part of his sentencing. DeAngelo ransacked about 100 homes, raped dozens of women and murdered 13 people in crimes that stretched across California from 1975 to 1986. More victims will speak Wednesday and Thursday, and DeAngelo is set to be sentenced to life in prison Friday after pleading guilty to 26 charges in June READ MORE
Presidential pardon: U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One he will pardon a “very, very important” person today, adding it would not be leaker Edward Snowden or Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser. “Doing a pardon tomorrow on someone who is very, very important,” Trump said Monday. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny for much of the day, with a mix of sun and cloud late this afternoon, a high of 30 C and a humidex high of 34, risk of thunderstorms in the late afternoon and early evening, and wind at 10 km/h from the south and later the northwest.
In case you missed it
Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans celebrate winning the 107th Grey Cup over the Hamilton Tiger Cats at the intersection of Portage and Main in Winnipeg on November 24, 2019. Mike Goodchild had a lot more time for vacation and house projects this summer but the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan was holding out hope his schedule would fill up with football games soon, even if it was a shortened season. He’s not particularly surprised the season was scrapped Monday but disappointed his team won’t be able to defend their Grey Cup championship. “We miss going to the games, watching our favourite players,” Goodchild said Tuesday. “It is what it is right now.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Spiked season saddens fans: With the CFL season cancelled, Blue Bombers fans will miss their team and another chance to celebrate Winnipeg’s 2019 Grey Cup win. READ MORE
Deadly tornado’s scale: The tornado that killed two 18-year-olds near Virden earlier this month has been classified as an EF-3 on the five-level Enhanced Fujita Scale, with estimated wind speeds of 260 km/h. The tornado had initially been given a lower rating of EF-2 based on preliminary findings. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 18, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported that a Sandwich, Ont., judge ruled that all export of alcohol to the United States was illegal under Canadian law. The federal minister of labour, speaking in Winnipeg, defended the labour department’s policy on immigration against recent allegations made by Conservative MPs, and said the Liberal government had not put barriers to immigration from the British Isles. The former labour minister of Great Britain was in Manitoba and witnessed the signing of a pact that would govern how the Old Age Pension Act would function in the province.
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