Your forecast
Mainly sunny with a high of 29 C with wind from the south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h this afternoon.
What’s happening today
The Sea Bears will have the support of a CEBL record crowd tonight at Canada Life Centre in a must-win showdown with the Edmonton Stingers. Sending the 9,000-plus hoop fans home happy will be a tall task Taylor Allen reports. Game time is 8 p.m.
Vikings young, old and honorary, will converge on Gimli this weekend for the 134th annual Icelandic Festival of Manitoba. Islendingadagurinn wraps up Monday.
Minnedosa’s Rockin’ the Fields three-day festival kicks off tonight at campgrounds near Minnedosa Beach, about 55 kilometres north of Brandon. Music lovers will be greeted by a new art installation, the Scrapocaster, writes Alan Small.
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg personal care home tower has been without air conditioning all summer, prompting residents to cry out for help.
Actionmarguerite St. Boniface, a 299-bed facility on Despins Street, was waiting on a replacement part from the United States, after a component of its air-conditioning system failed June 21.
The newly repaired system was still being tested as of this week, and was expected to finally be up and running Aug. 4 — six weeks after it broke down. Katie May reports.
‘This is really inhumane,’ Pam Jojnowicz, a Actionmarguerite St. Boniface resident of four years, said Thursday. ‘We can’t take it anymore.’ (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The Bombers may have started to lose some of their shine this season with a couple of unexpected losses, but the Blue & Gold silenced their critics Thursday night with a dominant victory over B.C. at IG Field. Kenny Lawler and Dalton Schoen, the CFL’s “most dangerous receiving duo,” reunited for the first full game of the season to contribute over 300 yards and 3 touchdowns to their 50-14 beatdown over the Lions.
Dalton Schoen escapes the tackle to run the ball in for a touchdown in the first half. (John Woods / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Aug. 4, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba government planned a $15-million flood control program on the Assiniboine River side-by-side with its construction of the Greater Winnipeg Floodway on the Red River. Prime minister John Diefenbaker said the next federal election would be fought between free enterprise and socialism, and that the New Democratic Party was “just the CCF continued under a new name.” The Discoverer 28 satellite launched but failed to orbit and dropped in the south Pacific Ocean.
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