Your forecast
An air quality warning remains in effect for Winnipeg. Environment Canada forecasts the air quality at 10+, or very high risk. Widespread smoke with a high of 27 C. The UV index is 7 or high.
What’s happening today
🏀 The Winnipeg Sea Bears host the Saskatchewan Rattlers at 7:30 p.m. at Canada Life Centre.
🏈 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers play the Toronto Argonauts at 7:30 p.m. at Princess Auto Stadium.
🍿 Assiniboine Park’s Lyric Theatre will screen The Lion King followed by Mufasa. Showtimes for the free event are 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
🌊 The 136th annual celebration for the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba, also known as Islendingadagurinn, takes place in Gimli this weekend with a four-day schedule featuring food, drink, music, art, special guests and various entertainment at venues throughout the lakeside community. For a complete list of events and for more information see icelandicfestival.com.
Today’s must-read
At age 41, Gene Malcom doesn’t take freedom for granted — not after spending more than four years collectively in solitary confinement.
Beginning when he was 14 at the Manitoba Youth Centre and continuing over the next 23 years at various provincial correctional facilities, Malcom has tallied a total of 1,600 days in segregation. The longest stretch lasted 159 consecutive days.
Today, he says he sometimes opens and closes his home’s front door just to remind himself what it’s like to be free.
Widespread use of solitary confinement in Manitoba correctional facilities is the subject of a class-action lawsuit that is scheduled to go to trial in November.
Matthew Frank has the story.
A segregation cell at the Manitoba Youth Centre. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Canadians are staying home in droves this summer.
According to a June Leger poll, 77 per cent of travellers are heading east, west and north across the country, but definitely not south. Only 10 per cent plan to travel to the U.S.
With that in mind, Free Press writers and editors reflect on some of their favourite Canadian haunts, destinations and memories from years gone by. Read more.
A view from the canoe on the South Saskatchewan River. (Russell Wangersky / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 1, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the city might get a new early-closing bylaw that could see the rules dealing with closing hours thrown out, or a revised version of the existing bylaw that would allow late opening one night per week instead of Friday and Saturday. Amid the Berlin Crisis, United States secretary of defence Robert McNamara said nuclear bombs would be used if necessary to respond to “Soviet aggression.” The six nations of the European Common Market agreed to open negotiations with the United Kingdom’s government for Britain’s entry into the economic community.
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