Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness, with a 60 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High 22 C. Humidex 28. UV index 5 or moderate.
Canada’s telecom regulator is investigating why Manitobans received an “unusually high number” of tornado alerts on their cellphones when the province was hit by wild thunderstorms June 9.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission gave Pelmorex Corp., which operates the national Alert Ready system, and three wireless providers — Bell, Rogers and Telus — until Sept. 11 to answer a list of questions. Chris Kitching reports.
Storm clouds over Highway 206 near Dugald on June 9. There were several tornado or severe thunderstorm warnings or watches issued while storms moved across the province that evening. (Mike Sudoma / Free Press files)
What’s happening today
🎤 The Last Chance Slam, presented by the Winnipeg Poetry Slam (WPS), takes place tonight at the Handsome Daughter (61 Sherbrook St.), and is a qualifier for the 2027 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Poetry Slam. Read more here.
📖 Cree-Saulteaux author Robert Stanley Adams brings Book of Love, a “collection of spiritual, openly erotic poems,” to Winnipeg tonight at 6:30 p.m. at an event at romance bookstore Bound to Please (995 McPhillips St.).
Today’s must-read
A longtime Winnipeg Blue Bombers volunteer was rushed to hospital and now faces months of recovery after being hit by an e-scooter while directing football fans after a home game last month.
The volunteer, a regular face on game days, was “seriously injured” when a person driving an e-scooter struck him on the sidewalk outside Princess Auto Stadium after the July 24 loss to the Calgary Stampeders, team president and CEO Wade Miller confirmed.
“He is receiving care, and our thoughts are with him and his family. We are in close contact with them and offering whatever support we can during a very difficult time,” Miller said in an email.
The Winnipeg Police Service does not keep statistics on reports involving e-scooters or other personal electric vehicles, but they expect to see the number of reports increase as their popularity continues to grow, a spokesperson said. Malak Abas has the story.
(Robert Lee / Free Press)
On the bright side
The list of accolades keeps getting longer for the Winnipeg-based founder of IndigiHub, an online resource for Indigenous entrepreneurs.
In February, Zachary Flett was named one of three finalists for the Indigenous Innovation Award at North Forge’s inaugural DARE Innovation Awards. In May, he received the Community Impact Award at the Manitoba Tech Awards.
Earlier this month, Flett was selected as one of five finalists in the Indigenous division at the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, a national competition that saw more than 650 people nominated across 10 categories. Aaron Epp has more here.
Zachary Flett is the founder of IndigiHub. (Aaron Epp / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 25, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Winnipeg mother was arrested by police as doctors worked to save the life of her infant son, who had been injured; no charges had been laid. In Ottawa, prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King announced he would head Canada’s delegation to the imperial conference in October, and then retire as soon as possible thereafter.
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