Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. High 29 C. Humidex 33. UV index 6 or high.
It may still be August, and more than three weeks before the official end of summer, but parts of Canada are already receiving their first snowfall.
Northern areas of Nunuvat including Baffin Island and Resolute received their first snow on Thursday. The Canadian Press has more here.
What’s happening today
Tonight at the Handsome Daughter, post-folk quintet Tarp marks the release of its debut EP Automatic Solar Light, a dreamlike, four-song sensory response grounded in the group’s formative — and transformative — experiences at its unofficial headquarters in Marchand, 10 kilometres southeast of La Broquerie. The Handsome Daughter, 61 Sherbrook St., 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $15, available online.
Tarp
Today’s must-read
Rising geopolitical tensions for Canada — not just with China and Russia, but also its longtime ally the U.S. — inspire a push, for better or worse, toward more manoeuvring and military infrastructure in the Arctic, with climate change potentially opening up trade routes and access to critical minerals and other resources.
Water crises, power outages, forest fires and other natural disasters afflicting Canada’s North continue to lay bare its often tragic vulnerabilities — while demands for greater social infrastructure and Indigenous sovereignty also intensify.
All of this complicates an expression like “Arctic sovereignty,” a buzz-term you’ll hear repeated by Prime Minister Mark Carney and his office.
But the ground is shifting, the ice is melting and Winnipeg and Manitoba appear poised to play a role worth considering in this uncertain new era of Arctic politics. Not only because of CFB Winnipeg’s role and reach, but because of Manitoba’s unique social, medical and economic relationship to Nunavut. Conrad Sweatman has the story.
A ranger patrols the Arctic Passage in Resolute, Nunavut. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press)
On the bright side
Leanne Jones has her business pitch down pat. The Niverville-based designer has been getting a lot of practice over the last two months as a participant of Pow Wow Pitch, an annual competition for Indigenous entrepreneurs with a grand prize of $25,000. Jones is one of 18 Manitobans to make it into this year’s pool of 140 semi-finalists from across North America.
“It’s helped build my confidence by putting myself out there. I won’t get anywhere if I don’t show my business off to the world,” says Jones, who is Cree from Peguis First Nation.
Next week, she’ll deliver another pitch with hopes of moving on to the finals. Even if she doesn’t make it, the experience has been invaluable. Eva Wasney has the story.
Leanne Jones launched Leanne Digital Design in 2023. (Supplied)
On this date
On Aug. 29, 1975: The Winnipeg Free Press reported air traffic controllers would force the shutdown of Canada’s commercial airports on the weekend despite a demand from the minister of transport that they stay on the job or face criminal and civil proceedings. In Winnipeg, 80-foot beams, each weighing four and a half tons, were lowered into place as reconstruction of Elim Chapel on Portage Avenue got underway; a fire the previous October had left only the walls of the stone church standing. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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