Your forecast
Sunny, with increasing cloudiness near noon then a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 25 C. Humidex 27. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
🖼️ Terra Cognita/Incognita opens tonight at WAG-Qaumajuq, 300 Memorial Blvd. As Jen Zoratti writes, “As a curator and head of collections and exhibitions at WAG-Qaumajuq, Riva Symko has been contemplating landscapes in art for a long time. But living in an ever-changing and ever-threatened one has altered her perspective on them.” Read more here.
Curator Riva Symko (left) and artist Lourdes Still in the new exhibition Terra Cognita/Incognita at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
A Manitoba pharmacist has been hit with $100,000 in fines and costs after a disciplinary panel found he dispensed a “staggering” amount of drugs that could not be accounted for.
Glen Pauch, who worked at a Portage la Prairie pharmacy, was fined the maximum $25,000 by the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba and ordered to pay another $75,000 toward the cost of the investigation and disciplinary proceedings.
A 28-page disciplinary decision, dated June 9, found more than 39,000 doses went unaccounted for while Pauch was consuming drugs and improperly dispensing controlled substances — including opioids oxycodone and hydromorphone, and Concerta, a stimulant prescribed for ADHD — to 11 patients. Scott Billeck has the story.
On the bright side
Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life.
Some of those pieces of ancient life are now on display in Winnipeg.
The University of Manitoba’s “The Ancient Inbox” exhibition opened Monday, featuring papyrus documents dating back as far as 2,000 years and on loan from the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection.
The exhibition, running until Sept. 30, is the first public display of authentic papyrus manuscripts in Winnipeg, according to Dr. C. Michael Sampson, a U of M classics professor and papyrologist. Zoe Pierce has more here.
Dr. C. Michael Sampson, Professor of Classics and a papyrologist, with a document that’s almost 2000 years old. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 19, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Spain, 400 people were estimated to have been killed when a naval torpedo plant exploded. In Manitoba, a vicious gale cut a swath through the Franklin area, about 10 miles west of Neepawa, with 90-mph winds, rain and hail leaving a trail of injury, crop and property damage.
Today’s front page
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