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What’s happening today
The Vancouver Bandits host the Winnipeg Sea Bears, starting at 9 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba Métis Federation is adding two prominent downtown towers to its real estate portfolio — and is calling for more investment in Winnipeg’s core.
“We believe downtown needs to be saved,” said president David Chartrand, speaking to the Free Press exclusively ahead of today’s announcement at 333 Main St. “It needs to be supported.”
The Métis government is in the process of buying the 24-floor Main Street office building and its 13-floor sister space at 191 Pioneer Ave., along with a 99-stall parking lot at 179 Pioneer Ave. Gabrielle Piché has the story.
David Chartrand, president of the Manitoba Métis Federation, stands in front of the MMF’s planned property acquisition — the two Bell MTS-branded towers (and a parking lot) downtown. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Shyla Niemi didn’t grow up learning Ojibwa. She only learned a few words and phrases in the language, such as “come here” and “slow down.”
She now gets to teach others to speak Indigenous languages while practising and learning herself through a new program at The Forks.
“I didn’t grow up hearing the language, and I didn’t grow up having a lot of role models,” the Indigenous language co-ordinator said Wednesday. “Hosting these language tables, I’m kind of creating what I wanted to see growing up.” Jura McIlraith has more here.
Indigenous languages programs co-ordinator Shyla Niemi (Nic Adam / Free Press)
On this date
On July 18, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London that Britain, France and the U.S. emphatically rejected the Soviet Union’s demands for altering the status of West Berlin, but left the way open for negotiations on the German problem. In Manitoba, attorney general Sterling Lyon announced a third radar unit would go into operation to complement the two in use by the RCMP, and added highway patrolling had been stepped up. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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