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Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning. Clearing this morning. High 25 C. Humidex 28. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Premier Wab Kinew is expected to make an announcement concerning long-awaited Winnipeg rail relocation today.
Former federal transport minister and Manitoba MP Lloyd Axworthy, who Kinew tasked in October 2024 with leading a two-year rail relocation feasibility study, confirmed there would be an announcement Wednesday. Carol Sanders reports.
Lloyd Axworthy was tapped to study railway relocation in 2024. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
After three years of planning, delays and constant controversy, Manitoba’s first supervised drug consumption site quietly opened its doors Tuesday morning.
The space, operating temporarily out of the fenced-off parking lot at 366 Henry Ave. while repairs to the adjacent building are underway, has spots to sit, free clean needles and other drug-use supplies.
Staff provide supervision to anyone who arrives to use drugs. A simple laminated sign taped to the gate reads “Enter” in English, French, Cree and Ojibwe.
Security guards, in marked and unmarked vehicles, were parked around the building Tuesday morning. Members of the Downtown Community Safety Partnership, decked out in green, lingered outside. Malak Abas has the story.
The new supervised drug-consumption site at 366 Henry Ave. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
They were somewhat shell-shocked.
Nobody at Oak Hammock Marsh expected to find an African spurred tortoise wandering through the wetlands. Least of all one that had travelled more than 20 kilometres from home to get there.
But after being missing for two weeks, Molly, a 15-year-old pet tortoise, was discovered tromping around the marsh. Zoe Pierce has more here.
There weren’t many lost-and-found notices for missing tortoises, so Molly’s owners were easy to find. (Supplied)
On this date
On Aug. 12, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, reconstruction minister C.D. Howe announced five measures to help relieve a lack of materials from hobbling a government program to build 80,000 new homes by March 1948. Quick action by a three-year-old boy saved four lives in a St. Vital house fire, when he woke to flames in his bedroom, where his younger brother was sleeping, and called out to his parents for help.
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