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Hazy with a high of 30 C and wind from the south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Statistics Canada is set to publish its July consumer price index report, The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
Indigenous leaders — including the only Manitoba representative in the federal cabinet — are calling into question the Senate appointment of longtime broadcaster Charles Adler.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced over the weekend Adler was one of two new independent senators appointed by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Adler has made a name for himself as a radio host and, more recently, a columnist for the Free Press. (Mike Sudoma / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 20, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported H. H. Stevens, the head of the newly formed Reconstructionist party, spoke before a capacity crowd at the auditorium and denounced what he referred to as the handful of men who he said controlled the wealth and credit of Canada as a “secret government.” Italy’s Baron Pompeo Albisi, leaving the three-power peace parley in Paris, confirmed the feeling of French high officials that war in Africa was inevitable and imminent, and that Italy would likely leave the League of Nations. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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