Your forecast
Sunny with fog patches this morning and haze this afternoon. Expected high is 25 C, humidex 29 and UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg pianist Danny Carroll performs at his Keys for Transformation album release concert tonight at Westworth United Church, 1750 Grosvenor Ave., at 7:30 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Danny Carroll (Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press)
Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of the month, the reason it’s considered blue. It’s dubbed a supermoon because it’s closer to Earth than usual, appearing especially big and bright.
This will be the closest full moon of the year, just 357,344 kilometres or so away. That’s more than 160 kilometres closer than the Aug. 1 supermoon. The Associated Press reports.
A supermoon rises beyond a sign at Kauffmann Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 1. (Charlie Riedel / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
In Part 2 of a Free Press investigation into judicial oversight of fatal shootings by police, Marsha McLeod talks to Vivian Caron about an inquiry where she hoped to hear a Winnipeg police officer testify about breaking down the front door of her Maples-area house and shooting her son five times. The wait for answers has stretched for six years.
Vivian Caron visits the grave of her son, Evan Caron, in the Gypsumville cemetery. Evan was shot and killed by police in Winnipeg in 2017. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and waddling gaits — had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks after suffering a catastrophic 2021, said scientists who monitor the birds. The news flies in the face of environmental trends, as scientists have said warming waters off New England jeopardize the birds because that reduces the kind of fish they need to feed their chicks. The Associated Press reports.
An Atlantic puffin flies with baitfish to feed its chick on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine, on Aug. 5. (Robert F. Bukaty / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Aug. 30, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the permit system governing the sale of liquor in Manutoba would be abolished in the coming year; adults over 21 would be able to buy alcohol without obtaining a one-dollar annual permit. By winter, the new “bridge over the prairie” west of Headingley using the new Trans-Canada Highway route on the south side of the Assiniboine River was expected to be in use; public works crews would cut a new river channel under the bridge, using the excavated earth to fill in the existing river bed. Read more of this newspaper here. Search our archives for more here .
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