Your forecast
Sunny this morning with a mix of sun and cloud and a 40 per cent chance of showers this afternoon with a risk of a thunderstorm. Expected high is 26 C, low 14; humidex 28 and UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
In the U.S., the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents film and television actors, says no deal has been reached with studios and streaming services and its leadership will vote on whether to strike later today. The Associated Press reports.
Actors and comedians Tina Fey, centre, and Fred Armisen, right, join striking members of the Writers Guild of America on the picket line in May. (Bebeto Matthews / The Associated Press files)
Janice Jo Lee, a Toronto-based folk-soul-jazz singer-songwriter, is also a composer, sound designer, spoken-word poet, theatre maker and arts/anti-oppression facilitator. Lee draws from her South Korean roots on her new album, and performs at the West End Patio at the West End Cultural Centre tonight. Doors open at 7 p.m., show is at 8 p.m. For more information, click here.
Janice Jo Lee (Bangishimo photo)
Today’s must-read
Data from Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505 show Winnipeg is on track to log another record-breaking year of violence on city buses, with 186 incidents recorded, as of June 30. Of those, 75 were assaults committed against Transit staff.
On-the-job threats have wreaked havoc with mental health and support from their employer has fallen short of what’s needed, some Transit drivers say. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
(Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The European Union’s parliament on Wednesday backed a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change in a cliffhanger vote that had the 27-nation bloc’s global green credentials at stake. The plan is a key part of the EU’s vaunted European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets and make the bloc the global point of reference on all climate issues. The Associated Press reports.
On this date
On July 13, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that two 19-year-olds from Ottawa, one of whom had made off with $70,000, undetected, from the TD Bank where he worked as a teller, were arrested trying to cross into Mexico wearing “drugstore cowboy duds bought in Texas.” In British Columbia, 29,000 workers were on strike throughout the province, with 1,000 more considering strike action. In New York, a mob of onlookers hampered efforts to prepare a landing area for a jet liner that had dropped two landing wheels upon takeoff, and circled the landing strip for four hours to use up fuel. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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