What’s happening today
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announces he will be stepping down as premier before the next election in Brandon on Aug. 10. (Tim Smith / Brandon Sun files)
Premier in public: Premier Brian Pallister will make two funding announcements related to health care in Brandon this morning and in Portage la Prairie this afternoon. READ MORE
On campaign trail: Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole will make a federal election announcement in Ottawa and host two telephone town halls. (One for Manitoba voters begins at 7:30 p.m. CT.) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make a Liberal announcement in Halifax. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will make an announcement in Montreal. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Final day in office: Andrew Cuomo’s resignation as New York’s governor takes effect at 10:59 p.m. CT. He announced on Aug. 10 that he would step down as he faced likely impeachment proceedings over sexual harassment allegations. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will be sworn in as the state’s first female governor. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning, a high of 20 C and wind from the west at 30 km/ gusting to 50.
In case you missed it
Paul Brault, campaign manager for Liberal candidate Dr. Doug Eyolfson. (Alex Lupul / Winnipeg Free Press)
Campaigning amid COVID-19: Dylan Robertson reports on how work on federal election campaigns is being done during the pandemic. READ MORE
School trustees’ vaccination status: All but one of the 57 trustees representing public schools in Winnipeg told the Free Press they had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Teresa Jaworski, who represents Ward 3 in Seven Oaks School Division, did not respond to requests for comment. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
CFL game postponed: The Canadian Football League has postponed Thursday’s game between the Edmonton Elks and Toronto Argonauts after several Elks players tested positive for COVID-19. READ MORE
Anxiety over climate crisis: In her latest column, Shelley Cook says she has been “teetering from sheer panic to complete denial” about the issue for a long time. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 23, 1917: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Canadian forces advanced towards Lens in the ongoing Great War, German planes bombed towns along the English coast, and Arabs who had revolted against the Turks carried out extensive operations against them. The Times of London reported that Canadians were involved in the fiercest fighting of the war, in hand-to-hand combat against the Germans in No Man’s Land, and were victorious in capturing German trenches.
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