Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud. High 24 C, Humidex 29, UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Multiple wildfires in Jasper National Park flared up with a vengeance late Monday night, forcing all park visitors along with the 4,700 residents of the Jasper townsite to flee west with little notice over mountain roads through darkness, soot, and ash. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
Residents suddenly booted out of their St. John’s neighbourhood apartment block 10 days ago were allowed to return over the weekend only to find their homes in disarray, at least one unit missing its refrigerator, stove and all of its furniture.
“It was really messed up,” said a 21-year-old woman who lived in the suite Monday, adding the cupboards had been emptied out, as well.
The three-storey building at 285 College Ave. changed ownership July 11. The next day, dozens of people living inside were evicted, having received no previous warning. The Free Press has been unable to speak with the new owner. Malak Abas has the story.
Some former tenants returned to 285 College Ave. on Monday only to find the building in a state of chaos. (Malak Abas / Free Press)
On the bright side
Cyprus on Monday put on display artifacts — some of them thousands of years old — that were returned after a Turkish art dealer looted them from the ethnically divided island nation decades ago.
Aydin Dikmen took the artifacts from the country’s breakaway north in the years after Cyprus’ split in 1974, when Turkey invaded following a coup mounted by supporters of union with Greece. The antiquities were kept in Germany after authorities there seized them in 1997, and protracted legal battles secured their repatriation in three batches, the last one this year. The Associated Press reports.
A woman passes behind antiquities repatriated from Germany and put on display at the Archeological museum, in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Monday. (Petros Karadjias / The Associated Press)
On this date
On July 23, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported one person was killed and two injured in an automobile collision on Dawson Road. In Geneva, Germany threatened to leave the world disarmament conference. In Ottawa, at the Imperial economic conference, Australia offered wider preferences to Great Britain. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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