Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning and late this afternoon, with a risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 28 C, Humidex 33, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Manitoba Rural and Northern Juried Art Show is on now at 210 Princess St., running until Aug. 24. Thandi Vera has more here.
Underground Dance of the Wood Wide Web by Mary Louise Chown (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
After waiting six years for a double knee replacement, a Manitoba woman has decided to move away from the province and seek care for her excruciating pain elsewhere.
A for sale sign has gone up outside Dan and Roseanne Milburn’s home in Elie, with the couple set to try their luck in Alberta.
“This shouldn’t be my life in my 50s and my 60s, I’m living like a 90-year-old,” Milburn said Tuesday afternoon. Nicole Buffie reports.
Roseanne Milburn stands in front of the ’for sale’ sign at her home in Elie. (Supplied)
On the bright side
A trove of ancient artifacts from Egypt’s last dynasty has been discovered in 63 tombs in the Nile Delta area and experts are working to restore and classify the finds, an official with the country’s antiquities authority said Monday.
The artifacts include gold pieces and jewelry dating back to Egypt’s Late and Ptolemaic periods, and some items could be displayed at one of the country’s museums, said Neveine el-Arif, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The Associated Press has more here.
Artifacts discovered inside tombs at the Tell al-Deir necropolis, in the Nile Delta town of Damietta, about 200 km north of Cairo, Egypt. (Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Aug. 14, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that following a British royal commission studying the question of abolishing the death penalty, and a similar royal comission underway in Canada, a new survey in the U.S. found most Americans were against the abolition of capital punishment. In Canada, negotiations that had been ongoing since November between the 11 unions representing 145,000 railway workers and the railways’ management reached a critical point, as workers voted in favour of strike action if their contract demands were not met. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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