Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud near noon. High 26 C, Humidex 28,UV index 9 or very high.
What’s happening today
The Red River Ex returns to Winnipeg starting today at Red River Exhibition Park, 3977 Portage Ave., signalling the unofficial start of summer.
The annual 10-day festival features dozens of colourful midway rides, live music, family entertainment, shopping and juried competitions. For more information, click here.
The Rex River Ex starts Friday and runs for 10 days. (Brook Jones / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The driver of a mini-bus involved in the deadliest crash in Manitoba history has not recovered from his injuries and may never be capable of providing a statement to investigators.
The news comes days before the one-year anniversary of the horrific collision that killed 17 people on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry last June 15.
“We have to respect the privacy of the driver, but I can say that the results of the accident have (caused) some severe medical issues for the driver and he is not able to provide those answers,” RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson said Thursday. Tyler Searle has the story.
RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen?
A park visitor said she took the photographs in the park earlier this month, showing a fuzzy white youngster being nuzzled by its dark brown mother. Park officials said this week that they hadn’t yet spotted a white calf in the sprawling park in Wyoming and Montana, home to about 5,000 bison, also called American buffalo. The Associated Press has more here.
A rare white buffalo calf, reportedly born in Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley, on June 4 in Wyoming. (Erin Braaten / Dancing Aspens Photography / The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 14, 1966: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, prime minister Lester Pearson announced negotiators for Quebec’s 4,250 striking longshoremen and their employers had reached agreement on a two-year contract involving a wage increase of 80 cents an hour. In Edmonton, recent talks between the Canadian Medical Association and the federal government revealed deep philosophical differences on the question of medical insurance. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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