Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with local smoke. High 27 C. Humidex 30. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Canada’s premiers will continue meetings in Prince Edward Island this morning, the second day of an annual summer gathering. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
A West Broadway landlord is angry the City of Winnipeg has ordered him to clear away a homeless encampment from his riverfront property or have the cleanup cost added to his property tax bill.
Marvin Sharp, CEO of Astroid Management Ltd., which manages the Pen-Eve Apartments at 35 Balmoral St., said the city is forcing private property owners to deal with a problem they didn’t create.
“This is kind of like the neighbours throwing their garbage over the fence, every single day, and the city’s saying, ‘You have to go clean this up, but we’re not going to go tell the neighbour to stop doing that,’” Sharp said. “What do you want me to do here? You’ve got a serious problem here. We’re not talking about someone throwing garbage on the ground. We’re talking about encampments.” Scott Billeck has the story.
Marvin Sharp stands near the encampments on the property at 35 Balmoral. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Manitoba conservation officers determined to rescue polar bears in distress on the Churchill shoreline were shocked when they instead came across seven beluga whales stranded in shallow water.
Churchill’s conservation office received a call at about 7:20 a.m. Monday about a white object in the water covered by seagulls half a kilometre from a public beach.
“When the public calls us and they say something white, we treat it like a bear call because we receive the call a lot,” said conservation officer Vitalii Skrynnyk.
Skrynnyk remained on the shore and requested help from RCMP and Parks Canada, who helped guard the area for polar bears during the rescue. Tiago Resko has more here.
Stranded beluga whales in shallow water near the public beach in Churchill. (Manitoba Conservation Officer Association photo)
On this date
On July 22, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Queen had or would soon give permission to her sister Princess Margaret to marry a divorced man. U.S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles warned against over-optimism about a Korean armistice as South Korea was reportedly threatening a new revolt against the truce terms. The Manitoba polio epidemic, with 218 reported cases, was the worst in the country.
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