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Mainly sunny. High 23 C. Humidex 25. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
⚾ The Winnipeg Goldeyes host the Kansas City Monarchs at Blue Cross Park, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The Winnipeg Police Service is ending its years-long practice of allowing officers to pick up overtime shifts to provide additional security in supermarkets and other stores at retailers’ expense.
Chief Gene Bowers cited concerns about the service’s recent inability to fill key vacancies when he informed officers in a memo Monday about the phased-in change, which takes full effect May 1, 2027.
“How this would affect the service is if we have shortages on our front lines, we often (ask) people to work overtime shifts, and often we’ve been recently unable to fill some of those required shifts to make sure we’re meeting our minimum strength on the street,” Bowers told the Free Press Wednesday. Chris Kitching has the story.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
After applying eyelash glue on a tiny tracker, Laura Burns carefully places it on a monarch butterfly named Eddie.
The technology will allow Burns to follow Eddie, who was named after his tracker code of a similar spelling, as he migrates to Mexico and collect data on any dangerous obstacles he may face.
Eddie was one of 30 monarchs outfitted with trackers at the Living Prairie Museum this week as part of a national effort to help preserve the endangered species. Tiago Resko has more here.
Eddie was one of 30 monarchs outfitted with trackers at the Living Prairie Museum. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 27, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Montreal a vote by Air Canada pilots to ratify a new wage agreement was being counted, and a union spokesman expected to make a statement later in the afternoon; a rejection of the contract could result in a walkout. In Prague, president Ludvik Svoboda told the Czechoslovak people the country’s liberal course, established by the previous president in January, would continue, after an agreement with the Soviet Union to gradually withdraw its troops.
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