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Mainly cloudy. Wind from the east at 20 km/h, becoming light this morning. High 23 C. Humidex 28. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🍸 Mocktail Week, on now until Aug. 24, celebrates some of the province’s best non-alcoholic sippables, with innovative takes on exciting new booze-free drinks. Read more in this week’s guide to What’s Up.
The Calypso’s Solitude mocktail from Patent 5 Distillery & Tasting Room (Sabina Sherman photo)
Today’s must-read
A Somali refugee who was twice caught by RCMP assisting in the smuggling of desperate African migrants into Manitoba during the frigid winter — including while out on bail, months after he was first arrested with eight foreign nationals in his vehicle — has admitted he did so for money.
Abdi Hassan Ali, 33, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of violating the Immigration and Refugee Act by organizing, inducing, aiding or abetting people not in possession of a visa or passport or other document as required by the act.
He did so twice in 2024 — on Feb. 22 and Dec. 1 — and was paid for his efforts, said federal Crown prosecutor Colin Gray.
He was arrested by RCMP and found to have transported eight and six migrants, respectively, inside his vehicle on those dates. Many of the migrants were from the Republic of Chad, in north-central Africa, which has been in political crisis for several years. Erik Pindera has the story.
(John Woods / The Canadia Press files)
On the bright side
Pauline Pollard didn’t hesitate when asked what advice she would give her teenage self, a pregnant young mother of one in an abusive relationship.
“Leave sooner,” she said, citing everything she’s learned over the last 25 years, including at Red River College Polytechnic’s shelter support worker program.
The 43-year-old said she has “a lot of compassion” for women of all ages who find themselves stuck in unsafe situations.
RRC Polytech hosted a celebration Tuesday for 34 graduates of the six-month course designed to grow and support the crisis-intervention workforce in homeless and family violence shelters across Manitoba. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
Pauline Pollard celebrates receiving her certificate of accreditation for shelter support work at RRC Polytech Exchange District Campus Tuesday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 20, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Great Northern Gas Utilities, headquarted in Edmonton, intended to enter the Greater Winnipeg natural gas market, in competition with Winnipeg and Central Gas Company. In Crosby, Minn., warmth from the sun sent a huge, helium-filled U.S. Air Force balloon and its doctor-pilot back up toward the 100,000-foot mark, temporarily delaying a planned descent.
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