Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 26 C, Humidex 30, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Winnipeg today, where he will meet with union members. Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal and Minister of Labour and Seniors Steven MacKinnon will also be in attendance.
Today’s must-read
A residential seniors complex in Osborne Village has been without phone lines for eight days, leaving its elderly residents disconnected and the building in disarray.
Villa Cabrini resident Concetta Manfredi, whose daughter died days ago, hasn’t been able to speak with her family in Italy in a week.
“I’m mad every day,” she said Tuesday. “I have no phone, if something bad happens (to me) … I don’t know what will happen.” Nicole Buffie has the story.
Villa Cabrini, a seniors home on River Avenue, has been without a phone for eight days now. (Nic Adam / Free Press)
On the bright side
The notion that online gaming could help players develop charitable habits seemed bold when the anti-poverty nonprofit Comic Relief US tested its own multiverse on the popular world-building app Roblox last year.
As philanthropy wrestles with how to authentically engage new generations of digitally savvy donors, Comic Relief US CEO Alison Moore said it was “audacious” to design an experience that still maintained the “twinkle” of the organization that’s behind entertainment-driven fundraisers like Red Nose Day.
But the launch was successful enough that Comic Relief US is expanding the game this year. Kids Relief’s second annual “Game to Change the World” campaign features a magical new Roblox world, an exclusive virtual concert and a partner in children’s television pioneer Nickelodeon. The Associated Press reports.
This image provided by Comic Relief US shows the virtual realm of the nonprofit’s new “Game to Change the World.” (Comic Relief US / The Associated Press)
On this date
Aug. 28, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Wall Street stocks saw a second day of heavy selling, with the values of all listed stocks falling by more than $2 billion. Strikes loomed at three of Canada’s major packing companies — Canada Packers, Burns and Co., and Swift Canadian Co. — as workers at the first two voted on an offer of a five per cent wage increase. In Hong Kong, Canadian prosecutors at a war trial charged a Japanese interpreter in the deaths of 864 British and Canadian prisoners of war. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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