Winnipeg Free Press | Newsletter
|
Free Press Head Start for Aug. 21
|
|
Good morning!
Winnipeggers will soon see eight billboards across the city dedicated to the Winnipeg Humane Society’s Stop the Suffering campaign, bringing awareness to welfare concerns associated with the transportation, husbandry and housing of pigs. Tessa Adamski spoke with advocates about the province’s industrial farms.
And on Sunday, NDP Leader Wab Kinew pledged to expand the $10-a-day child care program to make more children eligible and more time available. School-aged kids are not eligible for $10-a-day care during the summer months, holidays, and days off. Kinew promised that if the NDP win the upcoming provincial election, those gaps would be filled.
|
|
Advertisement
|
Your forecast
Environment Canada is calling for a few showers to end this afternoon, then becoming cloudy and hazy. A high of 18 C is predicted with a low tonight of 14.
What’s happening today
The recently shuffled Liberal cabinet is in Prince Edward Island’s capital this week for a retreat as it prepares for the next sitting of the Parliament. It’s expected the housing crisis will be the central topic for ministers as they sit down to discuss their government’s priorities.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to Maui on Monday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island earlier this month.
And a 40-year retrospective of Faye HeavyShield, a Blackfoot (Blood) visual artist from the Kainai First Nation in Alberta, is in its last weeks on view at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. For more information, click here.
Aapaskaiyaawa (They are Dancing) by Faye HeavyShield (MacKenzie Art Gallery)
Today’s must-read
The secrecy surrounding the Manitoba government’s handling of one of the country’s deadliest highway crashes is raising red flags for critics and access-to-information experts. Among the issues they deem concerning: the premier received no formal written briefing notes or memos about the Carberry bus crash in the month following the June incident that left 17 people dead; the province is refusing to name the external consultant hired to conduct a safety analysis of the crash site; and the government is refusing to commit to making two safety reports — an internal one by the department of transportation and infrastructure and the consultant’s — public. Katrina Clarke has the story here.
On the bright side
Kultivation Festival, dedicated to Filipino community-building, has expanded from two days and a dozen activities to a full week of programming featuring more than 30 different artistic, cultural and educational events. The festival kicks off today and runs until Sunday.
On this date
On Aug. 21, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported in West Kildonan, two children, aged four and five, burned to death in the stable of a farm; they were only discovered to have been in the building when it partially collapsed. Canada and Great Britain signed an immigration agreement following weeks of negotiations. In New York, a 24-year-old man confessed to police to having started more than 100 fires in Manhattan in the previous few months “just to see the fire engines in action.” Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
|
Advertisement
|
Top news
Katrina Clarke:
Response to deadly crash raising red flags
The Manitoba government’s guarded approach in responding to one of the country’s deadliest highway crashes is raising red flags for critics and access-to-information experts.
Among the issues they ...
Read More
Joyanne Pursaga:
City defends itself against Emterra lawsuit
The City of Winnipeg has denied the allegations in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, which was launched by its former garbage and recycling collector, and is seeking damages in a counterclaim.
The cit...
Read More
Winnipeg Free Press | Newsletter
|
New in Sports
Jeff Hamilton:
Brown’s stock falls after win in Calgary
There's an adage in professional sports that good teams find ways to win when they’re not at their best, while bad teams find ways to lose in games they seemed destined for victory.
That perfectly ...
Read More
|
New in Arts and Entertainment
|
New in Business
|
Fresh opinions
Editorial:
The courage of your convictions
‘Use your mouth words.”
It’s something you might say to a three-year-old having a temper tantrum as you try desperately to get them to tell you what the problem is.
Read More
Shannon D.M. Moore, Kevin Lopuck, Colleen Dawson, Katie Hurst, Ellen Bees, Emily Livingston, Scott Durling and Melanie Janzen:
The parental rights Trojan Horse
Last Thursday, the PC party promised to expand parental rights if elected.
Much of what was proposed is redundant and unfounded. The curriculum documents are all readily available online. In addition, media release forms are widely used in schools across the province and schools typically inform parents about guest speakers.
Read More
Peter McKenna:
The Trudeaus and Cuba
While travelling around Cuba in May, I began to ask myself a very interesting question: what are the similarities and differences between the two Trudeau Liberal governments — father and son — in their respective approaches to Canadian-Cuban relations?
Read More
|
|
Share:
|
Download our News Break app
|
|
|
