Your forecast
Mainly sunny. High 26 C, Humidex 28, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
In the latest instalment of Bands as Bands, Strawberry Punch will be performing as the Cranberries, Guilty Sleep will be Smashing Pumpkins and the Love Letters will be doing their best Arctic Monkeys at a show sure to be steeped in ’90s/’00s alt-rock nostalgia. Blue Note Park, 220 Main St., 9 p.m.
Guilty Sleep will bring the cherub rock as the Smashing Pumpkins. (Supplied)
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Ottawa Redblacks at Princess Auto Stadium, starting at 7:30 p.m. As Jeff Hamilton writes, “If the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are to break free from their current losing skid, it will be with a new face at the controls. Chris Streveler is set to make his first start of the season, with the Bombers ruling out No. 1 quarterback Zach Collaros (thorax) for their Week 5 matchup against the visiting Ottawa Redblacks Friday night.” Read the full story here.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers hope to get their first win of the season against the Ottawa Redblacks. (Nic Adam / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
When long-haul trucker Devi Gershbain takes a load into the U.S., she has her faithful sidekicks, Ever and Radar, in her cab.
Gershbain, who has been a trucker for 36 years, journeys across the border as many as eight times a month.
She’s concerned new regulations in the U.S. that will take effect Aug. 1 will force her — and other truckers — to keep their beloved companions at home. Jura McIlraith reports.
Devi Gershbain said at her St. Vital home, with Ever and Radar at her feet. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Nicole Gaudynek thought it would take months to raise enough money to buy 43 goats to give to widows in Kenya.
Within a month and a half, Oak Park High School students had collected $4,500 — which was enough to buy 43 female goats, two males and two years’ worth of deworming medicine.
Gaudynek, 17, said she was amazed by the support from her school after she and a group of 39 other students and five teachers went to Kenya in March. Read the full story here.
Oak Park High School students have collected $4,500 — enough to buy 43 female goats for widows in Kenya, a country racked by poverty and unrest. (Supplied)
On this date
On July 5, 1969: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the four remaining Liberal MLAs elected to the Manitoba legislature ruled out completely the possibility of forming a minority coalition government with premier Walter Weir’s Progressive Conservatives following the results of the June 25 general election. Weir was expected to step down, and the New Democratic Party was likely to form the next government, a first for the province. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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