What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSShoes placed at a memorial at Oodena Circle in Winnipeg after the remains of 215 children were discovered near the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Many more unmarked graves: A First Nation in Saskatchewan its holding a news conference this morning to announce “the horrific and shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves” at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School. Cowessess First Nation said the number of unmarked graves will be the most substantial yet in Canada. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Update on vaccines: The provincial government will hold a news conference on COVID-19 vaccines. The weekly news conference is usually held on Wednesdays but was postponed because the province announced its pandemic reopening plan yesterday. Danielle Da Silva reports on new privileges for people who are fully vaccinated. READ MORE
Set for ‘open street’ vote: City council will vote on whether to reduce the summer cycling route on Wellington Crescent, from Academy Road to Guelph Street, to weekends and holidays only beginning in September. READ MORE
COVID-19 cash: Two Winnipeg Liberal MPs, Jim Carr and Terry Duguid, will make an online announcement about support for small businesses this morning.
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of 28 C, humidex of 29 and peak winds from the northwest at 20 km/h beginning early this afternoon.
In case you missed it
Police investigate the fatal stabbing. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Death ruled self-defence: A man has been acquitted of a fatal stabbing on Flora Avenue in July 2019, with the judge accepting his claim he was defending himself. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Final edition: Hong Kong residents queued up to buy the final print edition of the Apple Daily, the city’s last pro-democracy newspaper. The paper has ceased operations after police froze its assets and arrested five top editors and executives last week. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 24, 1940: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the introduction of income tax would begin at two per cent; in addition to taxes on automobiles and other levies to support the war effort, the federal budget called for more than $1 billion in expenditures. France signed an armistice agreement with Italy, bringing into effect the French-German armistice recently signed in the forest of Compiegne, which made France a passive ally of Germany.
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