Your forecast
Sunny. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High 24 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
With such freezing winters, warm weather is usually welcomed with open arms here in the Keystone province. But it’s hard to be grateful for rising temperatures when sunny days turn into torturous heat.
Internationally, athletes have been affected by the rising heat, smoke or storms that viciously blunder through. This year alone the weather has impacted everything from the Tour de France to the men’s FIFA World Cup.
Locally, the U18 Football Canada Cup had to delay multiple games well into the night and there have been repetitive tarp deployments during Winnipeg Goldeyes games. Grace Penner has the story.
Team Manitoba’s opening game against Team Quebec at the U18 2026 Football Canada Cup was one of two games delayed back in July because of a heat warning. (Cassidy Dankochik / The Carillon files)
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There’s space for inner-city residents in every phase of life at the Freight House Recreation Centre at Isabel Street and Ross Avenue.
The long-standing facility hosts a daycare, a local faction of the Boys and Girls Club of Canada, a community centre and a bingo hall.
But the expansive park on the city property holds evidence of another lived experience: used needles, glass pipes, small baggies and other apparent drug paraphernalia.
A three-person crew, employed by the city as part of its recently expanded proactive cleanup program, allowed the Free Press to follow along last week while they worked to make the space safe to play in again. Malak Abas has the story.
City crew members Tee Silver (left), Alex Cloney and Kyle Bergantim clean up needles and other hazardous materials at Freight House park. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
After 12 hours of wind, waves and a painful shoulder, Jonathon Fenton has finished what he started, making it across Lake Winnipeg.
The 62-year-old two-time cancer survivor completed the roughly 26-kilometre swim Sunday, a year after shoulder problems forced him to stop 16 kilometres into his first attempt.
The swim was the second year of Fenton’s Jonny’s Big Swim fundraiser, which supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation, CancerCare Manitoba Foundation and Health Sciences Centre Foundation. Zoe Pierce has more here.
Two-time cancer survivor Jonathon Fenton, 62, swam across Lake Winnipeg Sunday. (Sue Romaniuk photo)
On this date
On Aug. 18, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the federal Liberal government put a halt to attempts by Alberta to obtain control over the chartered bank branches in that province by disallowing three statutes that had been enacted by the provincial Social Credit government. Premier William Aberhart had rejected an earlier proposal by prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King to have the Supreme Court determine whether Alberta’s legislation was constitutional. 
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