Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning. Wind becoming north at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 21 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
A new exhibition, entitled Dancing Skies, is on now at the Cre8ery, 125 Adelaide St., and features heavenly, atmospheric work by three local artists. Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., until July 23.
Local artist Jim Thomson’s watercolour painting, Dancer in the Dark, is included in the new Dancing Skies exhibit at the Cre8ery. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Police believe a fatal shooting outside a Waverley Street soccer complex after a game late Saturday was targeted, but the motive behind the slaying remains unknown.
The player was shot multiple times in the parking lot of the Ralph Cantafio Soccer Complex in south Winnipeg after a Canada African Cup of Nations match between teams made up of players with connections to Eritrea and Ghana, respectively. The well-attended game ended at about 11:30 p.m.
The victim was Mohamed Yusuf Abdullahi, 22, of Winnipeg. Erik Pindera has the story.
Mohamed Yusuf Abdullahi, 22, had just finished playing in a soccer tournament and was leaving the Ralph Cantafio Soccer Complex when he was fatally shot in the parking lot. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Health workers in Ivory Coast began giving children the latest malaria vaccine on Monday, the beginning of a regional campaign that experts hope might curb the impact of one of Africa’s top killers.
The West African country became the first to start rolling out the newest shot targeting malaria in an effort that aims to cover about 250,000 children under two. The three-dose vaccine known as R21/Matrix-M was developed by Britain’s Oxford University and was authorized by the World Health Organization last October. The Associated Press has more here.
Women wait to administer the malaria vaccine Oxford-Serum R21 to their children in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday. (Diomande Ble Blonde / The Associated Press)
On this date
On July 16, 1931: The Manitoba Free Press reported two hours before an inquest began into the slaying of fur buyer Abby Levinson, a gun was found near the scene by detectives from the Cathedral City police force; two Italian fascist officials were injured by bombs sent through the mail; and members of the House of Commons received invitations to attend the opening ceremonies in September of the Manitoba-Ontario section of the Trans-Canada Highway. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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