Today’s weather
Your forecast: Increasing cloudiness with showers and risk of a thunderstom late this afternoon. Expected high is 23 C, Humidex 25 and UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Ottawa is expected to sign deals with German automakers Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz today to secure access for the companies to Canadian raw materials for batteries in electric vehicles. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are set to attend the signing ceremony.
Today’s must-read
Nurses worked overtime and picked up shifts to help Manitoba’s main trauma hospital avert crisis over the weekend after it was forced to close half of its beds in the emergency department due to a severe staffing shortage. As they pitched in to bolster staffing at the Health Sciences Centre’s ER, nurses reported unsafe working conditions. Carol Sanders and Danielle Da Silva have the story.
The Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. (Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Aug. 23, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the federal minister of agriculture announced a tri-party deal between Ottawa, the provinces, and Canada’s railways for a program of assistance for drought-stricken westrern farmers. Roughly forty thousand families and up to half a million head of livestock were affected by drought in southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and facing a fourth consecutive year of crop failure. In Montreal, two assassins wanted in the gangland-style killing of a police informant escaped the dragnet and were reportedly headed for Chicago. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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