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Soccer scores big: The Canadian women’s soccer team beat Costa Rica 3-1 in a friendly match at Investors Group Field on Thursday night, thrilling the crowd of 14,434. The score could have been very lopsided in Canada’s favour, Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: The high today is 29 C, with increasing cloudiness near noon and wind from the south at 30 km/h, gusting to 50, in the afternoon. There’s a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon and a severe risk of a thunderstorm late this evening.
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JUSTIN SAMANSKI-LANGILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSJody Ostapiw, president of the Manitoba Criminal Defence Lawyers Association: “I struggle to understand the criticism of the lack of transparency, and then remaining anonymous.’
‘Cowardly’ complaint: The president of the provincial Criminal Defence Lawyers Association says an anonymous complaint questioning the ethics of Manitoba’s top judges over a plan to eliminate preliminary hearings was “hypocritical and cowardly.” Jody Ostapiw says defence lawyers have concerns about proposed amendments to the Criminal Code but the person who filed the complaint doesn’t speak for the association. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Details on downsizing: Of the 132 positions the WRHA eliminated this week at the behest of the Progressive Conservative government, the Free Press has learned only 73 were managers, and most did not directly co-ordinate or supervise patient care. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Up next
Beer bash: The Flatlander’s Beer Festival is happening tonight and Saturday at Bell MTS Place, with a record 88 booths and more than 280 products to try. Tastings are from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. both nights, and there’s a matinee tasting from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. READ MORE
Vigil over violence: Still reeling from the May 31 truck bombing in Kabul, an Afghan women’s group is holding a vigil and a demonstration to show solidarity, honour the victims and draw attention to what they say is a worsening situation in Afghanistan. Members of the Afghan-Canadian Women’s Organization are gathering from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in front of the Manitoba legislature. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Gene J. Puskar / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPittsburgh Penguins’ Carl Hagelin (62) and Nashville Predators’ Viktor Arvidsson (38) trade punches during the third period in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final, Thursday, in Pittsburgh.
Shot at another Stanley: The Pittsburgh Penguins are a win away from hoisting the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive season after blowing out the Nashville Predators in Game 5 on Thursday night. Game 6 is Sunday in Nashville. READ MORE
Gender balance: Provincial NDP leadership candidate Wab Kinew has committed to including more women in the NDP caucus. But as Royce Koop writes, the party’s lone candidate has his work cut out for him if he wants to achieve gender balance because only three of the NDP’s dozen MLAs are women. READ MORE
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ALASTAIR GRANT / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILESBritain’s Prime Minister Theresa May
#GE2017: The Labour Party scored a major upset in Britain’s general election, denying Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party a majority in Parliament. With the spectre of a hung Parliament looming over what was supposed to be an affirmation of May’s leadership of the country as it heads into negotiations with the European Union over Brexit, political uncertainty is the order of the day as the Conservatives scramble in the wake of a major setback. READ MORE
On this date
On June 9, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the U.S. had authorized its officers in Saigon to send troops into ground combat when requested by South Vietnam. In Ottawa, the House of Commons approved new rules that would end a deadlocked that had persisted for 12 days and had threatened to become a parliamentary crisis. Life preservers filled with kapok were determined to be unsafe and were set to be banned in Canada. READ MORE
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