Your forecast
High 29 C. Humidex 37. UV index is high at 7. Mix of sun and cloud. A little bit windy: winds from south 30 km/h, gusting up to 50 km/h.
What’s happening today
Federal Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty is in Winnipeg today to make a joint announcement with Manitoba Métis Federation President David Chartrand about the federal procurement process affecting the Red River Métis business community. Details are expected to be released after a 10:15 a.m. news conference.
Today’s must-reads
It’s the latest workplace safety concern raised publicly on behalf of Winnipeg health-care workers: CancerCare will allow staff to use the main doors into the building “going forward” after the nurses union says their members were forced to use a hidden, more dangerous entryway without any security. Malak Abas has the full story.
CancerCare on McDermot Avenue. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
The City of Winnipeg has chosen five city-owned properties that can be used as supportive housing for vulnerable people on Sherburn Street, Plessis Road, Stella Avenue, Poisedon Bay and McPhillips Street.
The city plans to work with the provincial government and non-profit organizations to provide shelter for people who are leaving homeless encampments, are refugees or youth aging out of the child-welfare system, or people who have other housing challenges because they’re coping with mental-health issues or they’re at risk of gender-based violence. Joyanne Pursaga reports.
On the bright side
If you take comfort in knowing there’s much more out there beyond our planet, rejoice: A NASA telescope has detected a new “tiny moon” orbiting icy Uranus. The 10-kilometre-wide moon remained hidden for at least 40 years “because of its faintness and small size.”
This is an image provided by NASA shows the planet Uranus, taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. (NASA via AP)
On this date
On Aug. 20, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in the Manitoba legislature, the NDP leader charged that neither the Liberal opposition nor the governing Progressive Conservatives had any “basic principles of philosophy of their own.” In Ottawa, a 70-minute meeting of party leaders ended with an agreement to meet again the next day and there was optimism the ongoing stalemate in parliament over a new Canadian flag could be resolved. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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