Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers. High 25 C. Humidex 27. UV index 6 or high.
Highways, local roads and sidewalks have buckled and broken thanks to extreme heat in recent days, wreaking havoc with travel.
The provincial government confirmed concrete buckled on the Trans-Canada Highway and west Perimeter Highway, as well as highways 75, 59, 7, 8 and 30 on Sunday. Joyanne Pursaga has more here.
A transit bus got stuck on a buckled road along Bridge Lake Drive on Monday. (Supplied)
What’s happening today
🎭 The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival kicks off today — Ben Waldman has a preview of some returning performers; scroll down to the Arts section of this newsletter for today’s Fringe coverage, or check out our dedicated Fringe section online.
Geoff Hughes is back as Macho Man Randy Savage in Randy and Elizabeth: A Savage Love Story. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The family of a 42-year-old Winnipeg man shot and killed by police in Linden Woods on Monday night says the incident raises troubling questions about how officers respond to people in mental-health crisis.
“Their reaction to mental health is my concern,” said the man’s sister-in-law, Erica Smith, who spoke outside her brother-in-law’s Avon Gate home on Tuesday. She said her brother-in-law struggled with his mental health.
“It didn’t have to end like this,” she said, fighting back tears. “It could have ended differently.” Scott Billeck has the story.
On the bright side
The brewing industry isn’t known for being health conscious but, for a team of University of Manitoba students, it was the key to creating a chocolate bar that combines nutrition and indulgence.
Rooties is a proposed product by food sciences students at U of M that upcycles leftover malt barley roots used to brew beer. The malt increases the chocolate bar’s protein and fibre content, making it a more nutritious option for consumers, said Sherwin Santiano, one of four team members who worked on the product.
“It has a chewy sweet layer, and it has malt barley rootlets infused into the chocolate, similar to a Mars Bar,” he said.
Rooties is a finalist in an international food development competition run by Mars Snacking in partnership with the Institute of Food and Technologies Student Association. The annual event, called IFT First, selects groups of students from around the world to develop a product and present it to a panel of judges in Chicago. Tiago Resko has more here.
From left: Kemashalini Kirusnaruban, Maria de Los Angeles Garofalo and Sherwin Santiano came up with Rooties chocolate bars. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On July 15, 1952: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, Canada’s railways applied for a 16.6 per cent increase in freight rates and raises in their local coal and domestic grain tolls. Ontario Provincial Police apprehended a gunman while he was sleeping in a shack in the bush near Kelmar; he was wanted in connection with a number of break-ins in the Ingolf district.
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