Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon with a risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the south at 40 km/h gusting to 60 diminishing to 20 early this morning. High 25 C. Humidex 31. UV index 6 or high.
Quinn Cove was rushing home to Ste. Anne from Winnipeg when she said the sky turned a shade of blue she had never seen.
She caught a glimpse of a massive storm as she drove on the Trans-Canada Highway near the turnoff to Highway 12. The storm triggered weather alerts in several communities in southern Manitoba Tuesday.
A huge cloud formation can be seen over Ste. Anne, Tuesday afternoon. (Quinn Cove photo)
Chris Stammer, a meteorologist with the national forecaster, said most of southern Manitoba was walloped by extreme weather on Tuesday afternoon with severe thunderstorms, hail and strong winds widespread, including in Winnipeg. Morgan Modjeski has the story.
Heavy rain was set to fall Tuesday night on the flood-ravaged region in western Manitoba in which more than 100 people had to be evacuated amid power outages and road washouts, which prompted officials to declare states of emergency.
Premier Wab Kinew was preparing to travel to the Parkland region after heavy rains battered the area near Duck Mountain Provincial Park, a spokesperson said. Nicole Buffie reports.
A flooded area in Swan River on Tuesday (Lance Jacobson photo)
What’s happening today
The legacy of the late Winnipeg contemporary dance icon Stephanie Ballard will be honoured at a celebration of life at the Qualico Family Centre in Assiniboine Park tonight at 6:30 p.m. (A second event will take place Friday at the Gas Station Arts Centre.)
Stephanie Ballard (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s police oversight agency has charged a Brandon Police Service officer with assault in relation to his conduct while arresting a teenage boy during a sword attack at a high school in the western Manitoba city last June.
The arrest of Const. Darren Shewchuk was announced by the Independent Investigation Unit on Tuesday, one day before the one-year anniversary of the harrowing attack on Chinonso (Nonso) Onuke, then 15, at Neelin High School by another student who was wearing a mask and armed with a sword. Erik Pindera has the story.
The Brandon courthouse (Matt Goerzen / The Brandon Sun files)
On the bright side
Riverine origins matter at Baro, an eatery just west of the Health Sciences Centre on Notre Dame Avenue, but don’t overlook the connective power of the hyphen on the street-facing sign at chef Tammy Fekadu’s Ethiopian-Eritrean cuisine.
A waterway that rolls for more than 300 kilometres in the Ethiopian highlands, serving as a major cultural and economic thoroughfare for the nearby Gambella region as well as the South Sudanese state to the west, the Baro River is a reminder of communal reliance on precious natural resources, says Fekadu’s eldest daughter, Samra Solomon.
From left: Hanan Salim, Tammy Fekadu, and Samra Solomon at Baro restaurant (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
The hyphen is a bridge spanning political divides for Winnipeggers whose homelands have been engaged in decades of ongoing territorial tensions and civil war.
“My mom almost hesitated to call it ‘Baro Ethiopian-Eritrean Cuisine,’ just because some people might not be happy with that politically and maybe even morally,” says the 26-year-old Solomon, who manages the restaurant on top of a full-time job in the insurance business. Ben Waldman has more here.
On this date
On June 10, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the fight regarding increased streetcar fares and higher wages for Winnipeg Electric Company employees reached a boiling point at a meeting of the city’s special committee on transportation. Two of Canada’s most famous fliers, Roy Brown and M.E. Ashton, survived another adventure when their missing plane was discovered at Moose Lake, a few miles east of The Pas.
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