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WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSAlana Maertins, President of the Manitoba Society of Occupational Therapists, says some of her members will lose their jobs as a result of yesterday’s WRHA announcement.
Therapy services will be cut: Hundreds of Winnipeggers receiving physiotherapy and occupational therapy services for free at city hospitals will soon have to shell out their own hard-earned cash at a private clinic. The services are being privatized as part of a cost-cutting effort. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: After days of cloudy skies and sporadic rain, today is expected to be dry and sunny, with a high of 22. Friday will also be dry during the day, but there is a 40 per cent chance of rain Friday evening.
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Patrick Doyle / The Canadian PressJustice Murray Sinclair.
Sinclair’s view: As the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Sen. Murray Sinclair knows first-hand the problems threatening to derail the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry. “Multiple-commissioner inquiries are a real challenge,” Sinclair told Dan Lett. “I’ve been involved in two of them, and I can tell you… they tend to all work out the same way until the people involved find a way of accommodating themselves to the mandate and the mandate to themselves.” READ MORE
Andrea Giesbrecht: Lawyers for a Winnipeg mother convicted of concealing the remains of six dead babies is asking the judge to toss out the case. A delay motion has been filed in Andrea Giesbrecht’s case, arguing the charges against her should be thrown out because the case took too long to get to trial. She was arrested in October, 2014. Katie May reports. READ MORE
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Bombers at home tonight: If you’re attending tonight’s Blue Bomber game against the Toronto Argonauts (7:30 p.m.) and you want to impress the people sitting around you with your insightful comments, there are two names to remember: Jeff Hamilton and Mike Sawatzky. The Free Press sportswriters will brief you with complete pregame information that will let you be a pigskin know-it-all. READ MORE
Brightening a scary underpass: People connected to the Point Douglas Residents Committee will be painting the walkway of the Main Street Underpass bright white today. The same group recently got Manitoba Hydro to improve the lighting in the same underpass.
Around the water cooler
The Order of Manitoba medal (Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba photo)
Order of Manitoba: Twelve people will be invested with the Order of Manitoba in a ceremony today at the legislative building. The distinguished dozen are David Angus, Marlene Bertrand, Doreen Brownstone, Selwyn Burrows, Philipp Ens, Anne Lindsey, Lisa Meeches, Rey Pagtakhan, Phillip Peebles, Bob Picken, Paul Robson, and Beverly Suek. READ MORE
Neechi Foods: Peguis First Nation is one of the groups who have expressed an interest in buying the financially-troubled Neechi Commons retail complex in Winnipeg. Neechi Foods — a grocery, restaurant and hub of Indigenous culture — faces the threat of losing the building and land at 865 Main St. after falling behind on its mortgage payments. Murray McNeill reports. READ MORE
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Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESCanadian astronaut Julie Payette
Julie Payette: Canada’s first female astronaut will become the country’s next Governor General. From Montreal, Payette speaks six languages and took part in two space flights to the International Space Station. She was as the CSA’s chief astronaut between 2000 and 2007. Payette takes over from Governor General David Johnston.
On this date
On July 13, 1912: The Manitoba Free Press reported that thousands of children attending the fair the day previously swelled attendance numbers at the exhibition; His Royal Higness, the Duke of Connaught, inspected the Boy Scouts and reviewed the entire exhibition. In Toronto, a conference of police chiefs from across North America heard a strong defence of the use of the whipping post from a Delaware police chief, and of the dangers of the white slave trade from a New Haven police chief. READ MORE
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