Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and a risk of a thunderstorm. A high of 27 C with a low of 13 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the Montreal Alouettes at IG Field at 7:30 p.m. Taylor Allen has everything you need to know about tonight’s game.
Pro golf returns to Winnipeg with Round 1 of the 72-hole Manitoba Open at Southwood Golf and Country Club.
Siloam Mission will open a public gallery at its 300 Princess St. drop-in centre from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Patrons can buy original works directly from the artists, writes Cierra Bettens.
Today’s must-read
Fourteen-hundred workers have reached a tentative contract with Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries that could end their strike, which began in mid-July. The Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union said Wednesday employees must ratify the contract. Details of the agreement will be presented to employees at information meetings set for today and Saturday. Picket lines will remain in place until the vote is completed.
“It’s good that we finally got to a fair place, I think our members will be relieved to go back to work, and I think Manitobans will be relieved that the strike is over,” said Kyle Ross, MGEU president.
Malak Abas has the story here.
MLL workers have reached a tentative deal to end a bitter strike that has curbed access to alcohol at government-run stores across the province since mid-July. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Two decades ago, a generous collector donated more than 100 Barbies to the Manitoba Museum dating as far back as the 1960s. Since then, the little-known collection has found a home in the museum’s human history department. Cierra Bettens has the story.
To Rylee DeJong, the Barbies reveal more than life in plastic; they’re artifacts of social history. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 24, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a soldier’s alleged jealousy on seeing his girlfriend with another soldier ended in a double murder and suicide at Camp Shilo. One of Canada’s top test pilots remained at the controls of a CF-100 jet fighter when it exploded. The pilot bailed out safely after he guided the plane away from two villages and crashed in a farmer’s field near Pickering, Ont. U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation outlawing the communist party in that country.
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