Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with fog patches dissipating this morning. High 23 C. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
The Dirty Catfish Brass Band plays at Blue Note Park, 220 Main St., tonight at 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $17, available online.
The Dirty Catfish Brass Band are at Blue Note Park tonight. (Supplied)
The Winnipeg Goldeyes face the Sioux Falls Canaries at Sioux Falls Stadium, starting at 6:35 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew says the $7-billion, overdue overhaul of two major hydro transmission lines in Manitoba is an investment opportunity and part of the “building blocks to be an energy superpower” — but won’t say how the cost will impact customers.
The Free Press reported Tuesday that maintenance and upgrades on the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines of Bipole I and II will require a 3.5 per cent annual rate increase every year for up to 15 years. On Wednesday, the premier called it an opportunity “to flex our economic muscle.”
“Over the next two decades, Manitoba Hydro is going to spend in the ballpark of $30 billion on acquiring new electrical equipment: to renew our HVDC lines, to ensure that the lights keep running — no matter how cold it gets in winter, how hot it gets in the summertime, and to do that in a low emissions manner,” Kinew said at an unrelated news conference in Brandon. Carol Sanders has the story.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Coming soon to a TV near you: Brady Oliveira, Alex Blumberg, and a whole lot of dogs.
The Blue Bombers running back and his girlfriend have started filming a new show for CBC that’s scheduled to air next spring called Must Love Dogs.
Viewers will see the Winnipeg couple hit the road on dog rescue missions across Manitoba as they try to save as many four-legged friends as possible before winter hits. Taylor Allen has more here.
Bombers running back Brady Oliveira and Alex Blumberg take a dip with one of their four-legged amigos. (Supplied)
On this date
On July 17, 1952: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Saskatoon’s Pat Fletcher, recent winnipeg of the Canadian PGA, set a blistering pace in the second round of the Canadian Open Golf Championship at St. Charles Country Club. In Quebec, the Union Nationale was re-elected to government, but its record high of 72 seats in the 92-seat chamber from 1948 was reduced by 28, and the Liberals went from eight seats to 23. A forest fire that had levelled a logging camp 40 miles northeast of The Pas was being held under control and the town itself was not in imminent danger. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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