Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud. Becoming cloudy this morning with a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. Local smoke. High 22 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s forecast predicts a warmer-than-usual summer with uncertain precipitation levels. Bill Merryfield, a research scientist with the weather office, recently said human pollution has been a key influence on hotter summers.
Tinder dry conditions have also created the fuel needed to start hundreds of wildfires across the country, forcing thousands in Manitoba and Saskatchewan to flee their communities earlier this spring. The Canadian Press reports.
Red lentils grow in a dry field on a farm in southwest Saskatchewan. (Quinton Jacksteit photo / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
The Kinew government spent more money promoting its universal school meal program this year than it did feeding students in some small divisions.
At the start of the 2024-25 school year, the province spent $94,617.50 on advertisements related to the expansion of breakfast, lunch and snack offerings in kindergarten-to-Grade 12 buildings.
The campaign — details of which were released to the Free Press via freedom of information request — included generic ads touting one of Premier Wab Kinew’s landmark policies. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Education Minister Tracy Schmidt defended the 2024 ad campaign, citing the ads were made to ensure parents, teachers and communities understood that food is foundational to a child‘s education. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Pat Wally traces her concern about climate change to a conversation she had with one of her grandchildren.
The child, who was 10 years old at the time, envisioned a future where the environment would be degraded to such a degree that people won’t be able to go outside without wearing gas masks. “That really hit home for me,” Wally says.
The 76-year-old Winnipegger chairs Seniors for Climate MB, the provincial chapter of a national organization of seniors dedicated to facing the climate crisis and creating a livable future for Canadians. Aaron Epp has more here.
Jean Clipsham (left) and Pat Wally (right) volunteer their time with Seniors for Climate MB, a group of seniors dedicated to taking action related to the climate crisis. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On July 7, 1921: The Manitoba Free Press reported forest fires raged in eastern Canada, with northern Ontario and Quebec being most seriously affected; hundreds of thousands of cords of pulp wood along the Temiskaming and Northen Ontario Railway had been consumed. In London, the conference of prime ministers from grappled with the distribution of German war reparations to the British Empire. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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