Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Local smoke this morning. Wind becoming southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High 33 C. Humidex 36. UV index 9 or very high. A heat warning is in effect for WInnipeg.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the Calgary Stampeders at McMahon Stadium, starting at 8 p.m. And as Taylor Allen reports, the Stampeders are fully embracing tonight’s inaugural Stampede Bowl.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Brady Oliveira will make his return to the lineup tonight after missing the last two games with a shoulder injury. (The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba has been advised to follow Ontario’s lead by dedicating 25 per cent of its advertising budget to local publications, to help fund journalism since digital giants have swiped much of their revenue.
“This made an immediate and meaningful difference to many news titles (in Ontario),” Paul Deegan, president and CEO of News Media Canada, told an all-party committee of the legislature in Winnipeg Wednesday.
Last year, Ontario Premier Doug Ford directed his government to spend 25 per cent of its advertising budget on local publications to bolster community journalism. Nicole Buffie has the story.
The All-Party Journalism Committee members Greg Nesbitt (left), MLA for Riding Mountain, Diljeet Brar, MLA for Burrows and committee chair Robert Loiselle, MLA for St. Boniface. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On the bright side
The newly hired president and CEO of United Way Winnipeg knows the agency can help change lives — his was one of them.
Matthew Cutler, currently the vice-president of exhibitions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and before that the province’s assistant deputy minister of communications and engagement, has been chosen to take the reins of the organization as of Aug. 11.
“I would not be who I am today without United Way,” Cutler said on Wednesday. Kevin Rollason reports.
Matthew Cutler, current vice-president of exhibitions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, has been chosen to be the next CEO of United Way Winnipeg, starting Aug. 11. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On this date
On July 3, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Communist invaders of South Korea slowed their powerful armoured advance in the face of a heavy daylight onslaught by Australian and U.S. fighters and bombers. In Ottawa, the Canadian government could send additional ships in the fight against northern Korea beyond three destroyers already there, without recalling Parliament. Construction was booming in Canada, with work totalling $164,651,000 in June, higher than the same month the previous year and the highest in the history of the country. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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