Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and this afternoon; risk of a thunderstorm. Expected high is 28 C, humidex 30 and UV index 6 or high. Wind south 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 late this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Singer-songwriter Taylor Janzen will play a farewell concert with Boniface at the WECC tonight at 8 p.m., before heading to Nashville with her partner Ben and their border collie Lewis in September. For ticket information, click here.
Taylor Janzen (Lindsay Blane photo)
Today’s must-read
Some high school students could be on the road legally without passing a driving test, as Manitoba Public Insurance scrambles to restore priority services while its employees are on strike. Students who have already completed MPI’s driver education program will be issued a Class 5 licence without having to pass a road test in an attempt to prevent a backlog in testing.
Meanwhile, Lek Kinnarath, the owner of Maple Leaf Driving School, said the Driver Z program alone isn’t sufficient to get them road-ready. “It’s definitely unsafe for them to just get their licence without having a proper test…. I’m strongly opposed to that,” he said.
Malak Abas has the story here.
(Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A nearly 200-year-old West Point time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened during a disappointing livestream contained hidden treasure after all, the U.S. Military Academy said Wednesday. It was just more hidden than expected.
The lead box believed to have been placed by cadets in the base of a monument actually contained six silver American coins dating from 1795 to 1828 and a commemorative medal. The Associated Press reports.
West Point archeologist Paul Hudson displays an 1800 Draped Bust Dollar. (U.S. Military Academy at West Point via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Aug. 31, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Santo Domingo, the military junta government of the Dominican Republic resigned. Ninety-nine people were feared dead after an avalanche near Mattmark, Switzerland. In Ottawa, a study concluded a nationwide medical care plan for Canada could be carried out with an administrative cost one-third that of private carriers. Prime minister Lester Pearson appeared on the brink of calling a fall election, but no official word had been given. In Winnipeg, 250 employees at the Fort Garry Hotel could go on strike if the Canadian National Railway refused to pay the Canada Labour Code minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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