Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Local smoke. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High 22 C. UV index 6 or high.
Officials in Manitoba and Saskatchewan say areas affected by wildfires aren’t expected to see much relief in the weather forecast in the coming days.
The Manitoba government said that while some rain was expected across the northern part of the province, it wouldn’t be enough to help wildfire suppression efforts in a significant way. The Canadian Press has more here.
A Buckland Fire and Rescue tanker truck on a highway after being deployed to La Ronge, Sask. (Buckland Fire and Rescue / Supplied / The Canadian Press)
What’s happening today
The Edmonton Oilers host the Florida Panthers in the NHL Stanley Cup final. Game 1 begins tonight at 7 p.m. And as Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe write, there’s no shortage of compelling storylines and reasons to tune in — even for folks around these parts who might have lost interest once the Winnipeg Jets were eliminated from contention last month. Read more here.
Oilers goaltender and Winnipeg product Calvin Pickard propelled Edmonton’s run past the first round after standing tall against the Los Angeles Kings. (Matt Krohn / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
The French education bureau is facing backlash for distributing hundreds of Grade 12 provincial exams that contain an infamous caricature of the founder of Islam.
Muslim leaders are condemning Islamophobic imagery that was printed in a case study distributed to 500 French immersion students, and the Manitoba government’s response.
“The harm has been done…. This has been a continued way of how we are addressing Islamophobia — it’s always an afterthought,” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services Association in Winnipeg. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
On the bright side
Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday.
At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, experts were hard at work preparing “Encounters in the Milky Way,” a deep dive into our home galaxy shaped by the movements of stars and other celestial objects.
They were fine-tuning a scene featuring what’s known as the Oort Cloud, a region far beyond Pluto filled with icy relics from the solar system’s formation. Comets can hurtle toward Earth from the cloud, but scientists have never glimpsed its true shape.
One evening while watching the Oort Cloud scene, scientists noticed something strange projected onto the planetarium’s dome. The Associated Press has the story.
This image provided by the American Museum of Natural History shows a new planetarium show showing a backwards S-shaped spiral in what’s known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto. (American Museum of Natural History via The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 4, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported professional yeggmen, or safecrackers, broke in to the administration building at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus, cut through the wall of a vault, broke the combination on a safe inside and stole nearly $45,000 in cash and cheques. In Ottawa, minister of reconstruction C.D. Howe told Parliament a number of very promising discoveries of radioactive ore containing uranium, necessary for atomic power, had been made in the Northwest Territories. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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