Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with showers or thunderstorms this morning with a high of 25 C and wind from the south at 20 km/h.
What’s happening today
The Burt Block Party — a four-day outdoor music fest held outside the Burton Cummings Theatre — kicks off at 5 p.m.
Golfers will tee it up at Southwood Golf & Country Club for the first day of the CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open. Sports reporter Mike McIntyre wrote about the players to watch during the tournament.
Today’s must-read
A 37-year-old woman was forced to hide in the woods for 11 hours to escape her former partner, who then killed her parents and brother, in what RCMP called “a horrific act of intimate partner violence.”
Manitoba Mounties provided harrowing details Wednesday about the series of events that led to a triple murder-suicide that rocked the small western Manitoba community of McCreary Friday morning. Erik Pindera reports.
RCMP officers at the scene of the triple homicide southeast of McCreary on Friday evening. (TIm Smith / The Brandon Sun files)
On this date
On Aug. 22, 1955: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a fierce storm of dust, hail and rain hit widely scattered parts of Manitoba and took a toll on standing crops, particularly in the Portage plains. Deadly riots and a breakdown in order continued as insurrection spread across French-controlled North Africa. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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