Today’s weather
Your forecast: Sunny skies with a high of 27 C, Humidex 29 and UV index of 7 or high. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning.
What’s happening today
In the wake of record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,500 people since June, the United Nations and Pakistan are set to appeal today for $160 million in aid for nearly half a million people displaced by the ongoing crisis.
Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city of Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. The flooding has all the hallmarks of a catastrophe juiced by climate change, but it is too early to formally assign blame to global warming, several scientists tell The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Zahid Hussain)
Today’s must-read
On Monday, RCMP announced a 20-year-old man had been charged with first-degree murder after a woman’s body was found on a remote ATV trail in rural southern Manitoba. First Nations advocacy organization Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak identified the slain woman as Mackaylah Gerard-Roussin, 20. Erik Pindera, Tyler Searle and Chris Kitching have the story.
Police were removing evidence from a home on Creekside Drive in Steinbach last week. (Tyler Searle / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 30, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Belgium was mourning the death of Queen Astrid, who was killed in an automobile accident in Switzerland. Britain sought to enlist France and the United States as diplomatic allies in Geneva to avert war between Italy and Ethiopia. George Bernard Shaw asserted in an opinion piece that should armed conflict break out between those two nations, neither Britain nor France was likely to come to the latter’s aid. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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