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Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h this morning. High 25 C. Humidex 30. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
A handful of federal ministers are expected to address hundreds of First Nations chiefs as they gather in Ottawa today.
They’ll be speaking in front of the Assembly of First Nations’ annual general meeting about public safety, the economy and natural resources development and social services for communities. The Canadian Press reports.
Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Melanie Leslie-Bernard was driving home from work two weeks ago and decided to pull over after seeing three people who appeared disoriented on a West End street.
One was draped over the curb on Sargent Avenue near Dominion Street and appeared to be overdosing.
Leslie-Bernard and several other bystanders called 911, but no one knew how to help while they anxiously waited for emergency crews.
“In those first couple minutes when responding to an urgent situation, if you don’t know what to do and you don’t have that 911 operator helping you, it’s very scary and it’s very stressful,” said the 39-year-old social worker, who uses they/them pronouns.
Victor Mondaca presents and demonstrates the administration of Naloxone for drug poisoning during a workshop at Transcona Library. (John Woods / Free Press)
Leslie-Bernard was grateful in that moment they had signed up for a harm-reduction workshop designed to teach people how to respond to drug crises and administer naloxone, a medication that rapidly reverses the life-threatening effects of an opioid overdose.
Organizations providing these workshops have seen a spike in demand for their services amid the ongoing drug crisis in Manitoba. Tiago Resko has the story.
On the bright side
A Métis sash, Chinese dragon, Japanese lanterns, Scottish bagpipes and an Italian Vespa scooter are just a few of the cultural symbols taking shape on a new Folklorama mural in Winnipeg’s West End, celebrating the annual festival and the communities that have helped define it.
The project revives an idea first created for Folklorama’s 50th anniversary in 2019, when Winnipeg artist Mandy van Leeuwen painted a mural at 847 Notre Dame Ave. It quickly became a celebrated piece of public art, earning local 2019 Mural of the Year honours. But it later disappeared after a neighbouring building went up, obscuring it from sight.
For Folklorama’s 55th anniversary, Take Pride Winnipeg approached the festival about recreating the mural, bringing van Leeuwen back to paint a new version — this time on the west wall of chocolates maker Morden’s of Winnipeg on Sargent Avenue. Zoe Pierce has more here.
Mandy Van Leeuwen is about four weeks into the expected six-week Folklorama mural project. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On July 16, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Geneva, the Soviet Union said it was willing to mee the West halfway on on a number of “important” questions on disarmament measures targeted to conventional weapons. Canada received tariff concessions from the European Common Market covering $250,000,000 in annual exports to the six-nation trade bloc.
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