Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a high of 22 C, low 12, and UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Goldeyes take on the Cleburne Railroaders at Shaw Park, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Accused sex offender Peter Nygard was arrested in a Toronto jail Tuesday on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement alleged to have occurred in Winnipeg nearly 30 years ago.
The 81-year-old former fashion executive has only faced charges for alleged offences in Manitoba’s capital city once before, despite the Winnipeg Police investigating eight historical complaints against him between February to December 2020. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
The former Nygard store on Notre Dame Avenue in Winnipeg. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth. NASA unveiled the latest snapshot Wednesday, revealing 50 baby stars in a cloud complex 390 light-years away. The region is relatively quiet yet full of illuminated gases, jets of hydrogen and even cocoons of dust with the delicate beginnings of even more stars. The Associated Press reports.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pon via The Asssociated Press)
On this date
On July 12, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported two plane crashes, one in India and another in California, killed 56 people. In Winnipeg, a self-confessed Communist spy was on his way back to the German displaced persons camp whence he originally came to Canada; his departure from the city began nine hours after the court ruling ordering his deportation. In London, dock strikers answered the king’s declaration of a state of emergency by pulling another 2,700 workers off the job. A British union leader wrote he had received information warning of Communist efforts to disrupt industry in Britain through a series of strikes, and said recent events were bearing this out. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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