What’s happening today
Sentencing scheduled: A teen girl is scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of 19-year-old Serena McKay on Sagkeeng First Nation. The Crown is asking for an adult sentence, while the defence is seeking a three-year youth sentence. The teen and another girl were arrested after McKay’s beating was posted online.
Cash for water quality: Environment Minister Catherine McKenna will be in Gimli to announce funding to improve Lake Winnipeg’s water quality this morning. She will later visit Selkirk to discuss how communities are “adapting to climate change.” Meanwhile, Ottawa is investing $4 million into the Experimental Lakes Area in Kenora, Ont. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Community club fire: A blaze burned down at least one building at the Assiniboia West Recreation Association’s clubhouse early this morning. It’s believed the main building of the community club, located on Buchanan Boulevard, was undamaged. No damage estimate was available.
Weather
Your forecast: It will be mainly sunny this morning and in the early afternoon, with a mix of sun and cloud in the late afternoon, a high of 24 C, humidex of 26 and wind from the south at 20 km/h.
In case you missed it
THE CANADIAN PRESS/John WoodsManitoba Premier Brian Pallister speaks during his cabinet shuffle at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg on Wednesday.
Risky business: Premier Brian Pallister’s cabinet shuffle is one of the most risky and unusual in Manitoba history, columnist Dan Lett says. There’s a reason governments don’t often switch all their top ministers at once, Lett writes in his latest column. READ MORE
Mad over mail change: Some residents of the RM of Taché are frustrated with a Canada Post policy requiring them to change their mailing addresses. In some cases, people are required to use a different town for their address. Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Pope on death penalty: Pope Francis has reversed the Roman Catholic church’s policy on the death penalty, saying it’s “inadmissible” because it “attacks” dignity. Previously, the catechism said the church didn’t exclude capital punishment “if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.”
On this date
On Aug. 2, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Canadian forces part of the international brigade in Spain were said to be taking “plenty of revenge” at the Ebro front on insurgents for the coalition’s previous defeat in the same area. Hail battered crops in widely separated areas of the Canadian prairies. Tensions rose between Great Britain and Japan over the “belligerent attitude” of Japanese sentries at the international settlement in Shanghai, China. Meanwhile, fierce fighting continued between Japan and Russia over the possession of Changkufeng, a hill on the Siberian-Manchoukuo-Korean border. READ MORE
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