U.S. politics
CPDemocratic presidential candidate former vice-president Joe Biden, and his wife Jill Biden, with vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and her husband Doug Emhoff.
Biden’s biggest speech: Joseph Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for U.S. president Thursday night with a 22-minute speech in which he said he would be “an ally of the light, not the darkness.” The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Speaking to senators: Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general of the U.S., will testify remotely today before a Senate committee investigating changes in postal operations being made shortly before the November elections. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny and increasingly cloudy this afternoon, with a high of 30 C, a humidex high of 35, and wind from the east at 10 km/h beginning early this afternoon. A heat warning for Winnipeg has ended.
What’s happening today
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates Peter MacKay, left, and Derek Sloan participate in the English debate in Toronto on Thursday, June 18, 2020. The Conservative leadership race nears the finish line today with a 5 p.m. eastern deadline for ballots to be returned to the party. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
Final day of Tory voting: The deadline for ballots for the Conservative leadership to be returned to the party is 4 p.m. CT. More than 150,000 ballots have been received so far, and the winner from among the four candidates will be announced Sunday night. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Cineplex screens: After previously reopening two of its five Winnipeg theatres, Cineplex will reopen the other three this evening, leaving the Towne Cinemas downtown as the city’s lone theatre still closed because of the pandemic. Randall King reports. READ MORE
City councillor on pedestrian safety: City Coun. Ross Eadie will make an announcement about “pedestrian safety related to bus stops and cyclists” at a transit stop in front of city hall this morning.
From Full House to big house: Former TV star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to participating in a college admissions cheating scheme. They will serve two and five months behind bars, respectively, if the judge accepts their plea deals. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Serial killer to be sentenced: Joseph James DeAngelo, whose crimes across California earned him several nicknames — the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker and the Golden State Killer — before he was finally unmasked, will be sentenced to multiple consecutive life sentences. He pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges stemming from crimes in the 1970s and ‘80s. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESLake Manitoba Chief Cornell McLean: “It’s a good day for Indigenous people.”
Project paused: A court has granted an injunction sought by six First Nations halting construction of an access road for the Lake St. Martin-Lake Manitoba flood channel project. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 21, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Arab nations, including Lebanon and Jordan, gave final approval to a peace formula expected to bring a quick end to an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly. In Manitoba, a blistering heat wave had swept prairie farmers into one of their earliest harvests ever, and an amazingly bountiful one, at that. In Washington, D.C., Barney Baker, an organizer for the United States Conference of Teamsters, readily claimed friendship with racketeers from coast to coast, but denied he was close to New York state governor Averell Harriman.
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