What’s happening today
Bombers fans line up outside IG Field for the opening game of the CFL season last week. (Alex Lupul / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Friday night football: The Blue Bombers host the Toronto Argonauts at IG Field tonight. Both teams won their first games of the season last week. Jeff Hamilton reports. READ MORE
Stunning sweep continues: Taliban extremists have captured three more provincial capitals in Afghanistan, including that of Helmand province, where allied troops fought some of the bloodiest battles in the past 20 years. The Taliban is in control of two of the country’s three largest cities. Canada is sending special forces to help evacuate its embassy in Kabul, which could be under siege in the weeks ahead. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Arguing against extradition: Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou will present their case at her extradition hearing in British Columbia’s Supreme Court. The hearing is expected to end next week. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny for most of the day, with a high of 24 C, and peak winds from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 beginning later this morning.
In case you missed it
Movers of a display home ran into trouble again on the Perimeter Highway on Wednesday. (gold1silver2bronze3 / Reddit)
Display home deja vu: The transportation of a display home through the streets of Winnipeg and beyond is the subject of a provincial investigation. Trees were illegally cut down before the initial move Saturday, and the City of Winnipeg now says street signs were damaged by the house. The same house struck an overhead sign on the Perimeter Highway while being moved again on Wednesday. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
‘Doing the best we can’: A man suffered a cardiac arrest in a hallway at St. Boniface Hospital after waiting about four hours on a stretcher. The incident happened hours after managers called a staff meeting to discuss concerns about long patient wait times in the emergency department. Katie May reports. READ MORE
‘Treating her like garbage’: An Indigenous teen’s pleas for help were initially ignored after she was raped by a stranger in a back lane downtown, a Winnipeg court heard this week. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 13, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Western Canada was set to harvest its third consecutive bumper wheat crop, estimating 542 million bushels would be harvested so long as the weather co-operated. Famed sportscaster Foster Hewitt was in town to be the master of ceremonies at the official opening of the new Winnipeg stadium located behind Polo Park. The provincial government passed an order-in-council to virtually wipe out rent control.
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