Your forecast
Sunny early this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h. High 20 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the Redblacks in Ottawa, starting at 6:30 p.m. And as Taylor Allen reports, Dru Brown isn’t the only familiar face the Bombers will be seeing in Ottawa — the Redblacks signed former Bombers corner back Winston Rose on Tuesday. Read the story here.
Winston Rose will be patrolling the Ottawa Redblacks’ defensive backfield tonight. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Ariel Gordon launches her new book Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location and on a live YouTube stream, starting at 7 p.m. There will be a conversation hosted by Kerry Ryan, an opportunity for audience question-and-answer, and a book signing with the author. The event will also feature a display by Tom Nagy of River City Mushrooms.
In her new collection, Ariel Gordon dives into the marvellous, mysterious world of mushrooms. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A man was stabbed to death, an off-duty police officer was the victim of a random attempted carjacking, and a knife-wielding suspect who had run into traffic and threatened people was shot by officers in a violence-fuelled afternoon in the city’s core Tuesday, escalating concern about public safety.
Police said they expect an increase in calls to 911 as the summer arrives.
“The police are very busy… the time frame is close, but that’s not uncommon, and moving into the summer days now, that won’t be uncommon,” Winnipeg Police Service spokeswoman Const. Dani McKinnon said as police outlined the three separate incidents of violence, which began just before noon and culminated around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, at a news conference Wednesday. Erik Pindera has the story.
The assault scene just north of 444 Kennedy Street on Tuesday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
When Cheikh Moustapha Seck, a 24-year-old sheep breeder from Senegal, speaks about his animals, his face lights up. “You need love and patience to work with the sheep,” said Seck, affectionately stroking the long neck of Sonko, his champion sheep, named after the country’s new prime minister.
Sonko is no ordinary sheep. It is a locally bred Ladoum, the equivalent of a Ferrari among the woolly creatures. The majestic-looking Ladoum can weigh up to 180 kilograms, and it has made this coastal West African nation famous among breeders.
As Muslims worldwide prepare to celebrate Eid al-Adha this weekend, the second most important holiday in the Islamic calendar, the Ladoum get their moment to shine. The Associated Press reports.
Balla Gadiaga, owner of the sheepfolld Baye Cheikh, caresses his Ladoum called BRT in Mbao, 30 km east of Dakar, Senegal, on Monday. (Sylvain Cherkaoui / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On June 13, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported near Flin Flon, an airlift by provincial forestry officials continued as weary firefighters tried to get more men to battle a raging forest fire. Moscow radio stated the Soviet Union had tried to stop the nuclear bombing of Japan in the Second World War, a claim former U.S. president Harry S. Truman denounced as a lie. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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