Your forecast
Showers and thunderstorms ending this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm late this morning and this afternoon. Wind from the southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this morning. Wind becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 this afternoon. High 23 C, Humidex 26, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
On now and continuing until Sept. 5 is Look Closer, the latest exhibit at Soul Gallery Inc., 65 Albert St., curated by Julie Walsh, showcasing the the works of Ann-Marie Brown and Bette Woodland. Thandi Vera has more here.
Some of artist Bette Woodland’s work (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
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Today’s must-read
A packed courtroom erupted in cheers, applause and at least one shout of “rot in hell!” Wednesday as convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki was led away by sheriff’s officers after a judge sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
The cathartic outburst capped an emotional Court of Kings Bench hearing during which family members and supporters of the four Indigenous women Skibicki killed addressed him for the first time.
Skibicki was convicted on July 11 for the killings of Rebecca Contois, 24, Marcedes Myran, 26, Morgan Harris, 39, and an unidentified woman eventually given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’kwe, or Buffalo Woman. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Mandy Fenner (left) and Amber Flett sing a healing song in front of the law courts during the sentencing hearing for Jeremy Skibicki on Wednesday morning. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion.
Crews will use excavators this week to breach rock dams that have been diverting water upstream of two dams that were already almost completely removed, Iron Gate and Copco No. 1. The work will allow the river to flow freely in its historic channel, giving salmon a passageway to key swaths of habitat just in time for the fall Chinook, or king salmon, spawning season. The Associated Press has more here.
A dam on the lower Klamath River known as Copco 2 near Hornbrook, Calif. (Gillian Flaccus / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Aug. 29, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser was re-examining his country’s relations with the Soviet Union in the wake of the Suez Canal crisis and other events connected to Western countries, but was not committed to breaking Egypt’s neutrality in the Cold War. In Winnipeg, the city’s chief constable warned parents to keep their children indoors after dusk after a shocking sexual assault on a five-and-half-year-old girl. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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