Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. A high of 22 C and a low of 16 C.
What’s happening today
The love-triangle saga of twins Castor and Pollux will take over the St. Boniface Cathedral courtyard beginning tonight at 8 p.m. in the Manitoba Underground Opera production of Castor et Pollux. For ticket information, click here.
Today’s must-read
Tenants of the Adanac Apartments in the West End were scrambling Monday to find housing and help after being forced from the apartment building at 737-743 Sargent Ave. under order to vacate. Earlier in August, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service had issued an order to vacate all suites in the building after it was deemed unfit for tenants. The site must remain empty until all outstanding fire code violations are corrected and the building passes an inspection.
Joyanne Pursaga has the story here.
Brandy Genaille, a resident of the Adanac Apartments at 743 – 737 Sargent Avenue, leaves the building with a suitcase, grocery bag and her cat Monday afternoon. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 22, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Montreal, Charles Feigenbaum, a familiar figure in the city’s smuggling trials in recent years, was gunned down in front of his 18-year-old son as he stepped from his car by gunmen suspected to have ties to organized crime. Two Winnipeg airmen on a rescue flight but who themselves had been missing for several days were thought to be safely sheltering in place at Black River in northeastern Manitoba. In New York, the third Jewish conference issued a communiqué that they would boycott Nazi Germany until German Jews had all their citizenship rights restored. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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