Your forecast
High 26. Cloudy, clearing around noon today. UV index is high at 7.
What’s happening today
For the first time, the new Graham Avenue pedestrian corridor will host a lunchtime concert today. Drum Café, a West African drumming and dancing group, is set to perform from noon to 1 p.m. in the “celebration zone” on Graham Avenue between Carlton Street and Donald Street. It’s part of the Downtown Sounds summer concert series from Downtown Winnipeg Biz.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s independent education commissioner will have new powers to field and probe complaints about teacher performance in time for back-to-school season.
Following a mid-summer consultation process that critics are calling “hurried,” the education department is finalizing teacher competency standards for Sept. 2. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
On the bright side
A ribbon skirt designer from Peguis First Nation is taking a delegation of Indigenous designers and models to Italy for Milan Fashion Week next month. Alyssia Sutherland launched Ally’s Ribbons in 2020, and her skirts have gained popularity after finding a following on social media. Sutherland told reporter Gabrielle Piché she wants to find ways to expand opportunities for Indigenous people in the fashion industry.
“It’s really important for us to let people know that we’re here, we’ve always been here and we’ll continue to be here,” said Sutherland, 29. “We’re going to show the world through our art.”
Read more here.
Ocean Bruyere, head model (left), and Alyssia Sutherland, founder of Allyճ Ribbons. Ally’s Ribbons is operating its own show at Milan Fashion Week. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 19, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Normandy, the German 7th Army fell in what was described as a “mad scramble for life” before the advance of British troops, even as Paris eagerly awaited deliverance from Nazi occupation. R.A.F. and R.C.A.F. fighters struck fleeing German forces attempting to escape through a gap southeast of Falaise U.S. forces broke into the outskirts of the great French naval base of Toulon. Read the rest of today’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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