Your forecast
Mix of sun and could with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and a risk of a thunderstorm. High 32 C. Humidex 39. UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Folk Festival begins this evening and continues through Sunday. The Arts & Life team has everything you need to know as the summer tradition celebrates 50 years.
The Winnipeg Goldeyes host the Sioux Falls Canaries at Blue Cross Park at 6:30 p.m.
Country Thunder, featuring Riley Green, Tyler Hubbard, Nate Smith and Madeline Merlo, takes place at Princess Auto Stadium, 315 Chancellor Matheson Rd., starting at 5 p.m. Tickets from $125.50 at Ticketmaster.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg drivers who may be confused by the removal of paystations in the city may end up being blessed by a “parking angel.”
Starting today, staff from the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ and their counterparts in the Exchange and West Broadway areas will patrol downtown streets and direct drivers to payment options that work for them as the city begins the process of removing its 250 parking meters by Aug. 31.
They will carry stacks of one-hour parking vouchers to use at their own discretion if someone is stuck without a way to pay. Malak Abas and Matthew Frank have the story.
New PayByPhone app parking signs have been put up across downtown with QR codes that will direct drivers to a payment site. (Matthew Frank / Free Press)
On the bright side
Submerged in about 40 metres of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.
Tidal energy technologies are still in the early days of their commercial development, but their potential for generating clean energy is big. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, marine energy, a term researchers use to refer to power generated from tides, currents, waves or temperature changes, is the world’s largest untapped renewable energy resource. The Associated Press reports.
Tidal turbines at the MeyGen tidal site located in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, a narrow channel of water between the Scottish mainland and Stroma Island. (Fraser Johnson/MeyGen, via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On July 10, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 30 Indigenous firefighters were rescued from a growing forest fire to the safety of a nearby island; the fire, 330 miles north of Winnipeg, was spotted by fire ranger Publius Filder from a plane whose passengers included a Free Press reporter travelling as part of a Canadian Forestry Association tour. Winnipeg city aldermen planned to ask the federal justice minister to investigate an alleged combine among five electrical firms seeking to supply power cable to city hydro. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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