What’s happening today
Premier Brian Pallister at a news conference at the legislature on July 15. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Revised pandemic rules: Premier Brian Pallister and Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer, will hold a news conference on updated pandemic health orders at 11 a.m. The province will also release numbers on new COVID-19 cases and deaths for the first time since Friday. READ MORE
Signing’s sesquicentennial: A ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of Treaty No. 1 is happening at Lower Fort Garry this morning. In his latest column, Tom Brodbeck says “the destruction of First Nations communities” began shortly after the treaty was signed in 1871. READ MORE
Baseball is back: The Winnipeg Goldeyes will play their first game at Shaw Park since Sept. 2, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. The team had played in Jackson, Tenn., this season and in Fargo, N.D., last season. Mike McIntyre recently wrote about fans returning to Goldeyes and Blue Bombers games, and to Monday’s Manitoba Derby. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny with a high of 32 C, humidex of 34 and wind from the southwest at 10 km/h increasing to 20 km/h in the late afternoon.
In case you missed it
Darian McKinney at the site of the St. Boniface Industrial School. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
‘It’s not that long ago’: A grassroots effort has uncovered the names of approximately 80 children who died at the former St. Boniface Industrial School, which has been overlooked for decades. “It speaks to me as an erasure of history,” Darian McKinney, an architect and member of Swan Lake First Nation, said. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
’It’s never too late’: Katie May reports on a man who battled homelessness and addiction before completing his lifelong dream of graduating law school — at age 49. READ MORE
Edits instead of essay: A classics lecturer at the University of Winnipeg gave students taking her online course on Roman Britain an unusual assignment — editing Wikipedia pages. Erik Pindera reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 3, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the U.K. called for more than 20 revisions to the terms under which it had been offered membership in the European Common Market. Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev was likely to sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, but it was seen as unlikely he would give the East Germans the power to spark a war over Berlin. In Canada, official action on behalf of babies whose physical development had been hindered by drugs gained impetus as Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and Canada announced they accepted the federal health minister’s invitation to work out joint programs of support and assistance.
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