What you need to know
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The Keeyask Dam project site near Gillam, Manitoba, Thursday, July 7, 2016.
Keeyask concerns: An independent report on claims of problems at Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask generating station camp cites many instances of discrimination between Indigenous and other employees. Hydro says 63 of the 64 recommendations in the report have been completed. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
Planners pan proposal: City officials are recommending councillors reject a plan for redevelopment of the Parker lands. Planning staff says the plan differs substantially from what was initially disclosed at public meetings. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: There will be a mix of sun and cloud starting later this morning, a high of 22 C, wind from the west at 10 km/h this morning and from the southwest at 20 km/in the afternoon.
Around the water cooler
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckWinnipeg Jets’ Josh Morrissey has the ability to produce points according to former Calgary Flames GM Craig Button. Putting up points helps you get paid in the NHL.
Defenceman deal: Mike McIntyre spoke with a couple of ex-NHL executives about the Jets’ negotiations with defenceman Josh Morrissey, and both say there’s no cause for alarm. READ MORE
Permit pulled: Provincial officials revoked the environmental permit for Churchill’s ice trail in January after snowmobiles, vehicles and fuel cans were found abandoned along the path, the Free Press has learned. It’s unclear whether the companies involved continued to use the trail in breach of provincial law. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
What’s happening today
Andrew Harnik / THE CANADIAN PRESS / The Associated PressCanadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland arrives at the Office Of The United States Trade Representative, Tuesday.
Trade talks: Another round of meetings between Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her U.S. counterparts on updating NAFTA will begin in earnest today. President Donald Trump’s administration is giving Canada till Friday to sign onto a bilateral trade deal between the United States and Mexico. READ MORE
Mourning McCain: People will pay their respects later today as John McCain’s body lies in state in Arizona’s capitol. Earlier, a private ceremony will include the first appearance of the late U.S. senator’s family since he died of brain cancer this weekend.
On this date
On Aug. 29, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported that a heat wave in England, where the temperature reached 94 F, was blamed for the deaths of 21 people. Members of the All-India Congress committee were jailed as the struggle for national autonomy including passive resistance to the British authorities resumed. The 98th annual dinner of the British Medical Association was held in Winnipeg, with 1,500 guests attending from across the British Empire, and was declared to be an outstanding affair. READ MORE
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