Your forecast
Widespread smoke with wind from the northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40. Expected high is 23 C, humidex 25 and UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
It’s the final performance tonight of Recycled Talent Productions’ Footloose, based on the Kevin Bacon-starring ’80s film of the same name, at Seven Oaks Performing Arts Centre. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 7; for ticket information, click here.
And Rainbow Stage’s production of The Little Mermaid, directed by Carson Nattrass, opens tonight. Ben Waldman talks to Julia Davis, who plays Ariel, and Laura Olafson, who plays Ursula, in this preview. For ticket information, click here.
Julia Davis (left, playing Ariel) and Laura Olafson (playing Ursula) rehearse at Rainbow Stage for The Little Mermaid, which opens tonight. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
A surge in sick calls from teachers has taken a toll on the bottom line in school boards across the city. In St. James-Assiniboia, substitute costs in 2020-21 — a year of stop-and-go remote learning — rose $2.3-million above the five-year average leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New compensation data obtained by the Free Press reveals the extent to which public schools across Winnipeg have relied on fill-in employees in recent years. Maggie Macintosh reports.
(Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 17, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported details of a huge road-expansion program for Manitoba were announced by the provincial deputy minister of highways; the $8-million proposal for 1955-56 included new bridges, 45 miles of modern, high-speed highways, and other improvements. The Canadian Wheat Board announced it would make available 3,700,000 bushels of number five wheat to exporters selling to Yugoslavia, the largest quantity ever offered to the country at one time. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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