Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Local smoke this morning. High 22 C. UV index 7 or high.
Canada is expected to see a warmer-than-usual summer with uncertain precipitation levels in most provinces, based on Environment and Climate Change Canada’s summer forecast.
Jennifer Smith, a warning preparedness meteorologist, said Tuesday that Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and northern Manitoba are especially likely — 100 per cent in some areas — to see a hotter than normal summer, though the odds are high for the rest of the country, too. The Canadian Press reports.
What’s happening today
Tonight at 7 p.m., Winnipeg educator and filmmaker Kevin Nikkel launches Founding Folks: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, published by University of Manitoba Press, which includes interviews with folk fest staff, volunteers and performers.
The event at McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Ave., will be hosted by David Knipe and will feature the musical stylings of Big Dave McLean. Eva Wasney has a preview here.
Filmmaker Kevin Nikkel (left) with collaborator John Prentice. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s sole federal cabinet minister has defended her work at a Winnipeg college and said she’s being unjustly targeted more than five years after an investigation concluded she had harassed an employee.
At least three employees of Red River College Polytechnic filed separate complaints about the behaviour of their boss, Rebecca Chartrand, in 2019.
Chartrand, who won the riding of Churchill-Keewatinook Aski for the Liberals in April, was chosen by Prime Minister Mark Carney to be part of his inner circle. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs Rebecca Chartrand rises during Question Period, in May. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
The famous wind-powered beach beasts have scuttled along the Dutch North Sea coast, into a swanky Miami art show and even onto The Simpsons.
Now, they have a final resting place in a Dutch city most famous for “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painter Johannes Vermeer and blue-painted pottery.
The “bones” of Theo Jansen’s “strandbeesten” — “beach animals” in Dutch — have taken over a former cable factory in Delft, the small city in the western Netherlands that Jansen has called home for decades. The Associated Press has more here.
Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s “strandbeesten,” wind-powered creatures made from yellow plastic tubes, are displayed during an exhibit in Delft, Netherlands. (Peter Dejong / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On June 11, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, U.S. president Harry Truman addressed the House of Commons and asked Canada’s support for the “Truman doctrine” in foreign policy, and received a loud, desk-banging show of support from Canadian lawmakers. In Lake Success, N.Y., a delegate from the Soviet Union made important concessions on control of nuclear power. In Brandon, the Manitoba and Northwestern Command of the Canadian Legion decided to seek representation at a provincial committee in order to oppose the buying of land by conscientious objectors, include Hutterites. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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