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A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Expected high is 22 C, low 12, UV index 7 or high. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning.
What’s happening today
The North American Indigenous Games officially kicked off Sunday evening with the prime minister in attendance, as thousands of Indigenous athletes from across the continent filled the main hockey arena in Halifax. The 2023 games will mix Indigenous culture with sporting events, which bring together about 5,000 athletes, coaches and mission staff from 750 First Nations across the continent. The Canadian Press reports.
The North American Indigenous Games opened as thousands of Indigenous athletes from across the continent filled the downtown Halifax Forum Civic Centre. (Darren Calabrese / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
Forty-eight hours after receiving paper slips ordering them to stop blocking a Winnipeg landfill, one of which was immediately set on fire by a recipient, protesters sat around a fire in the middle of a road in front of the depot’s main entrance.
“It’s a waiting game right now,” Melissa Robinson said outside the Brady Road landfill, gathered with relatives and other supporters condemning the province’s decision not to search another local landfill for the remains of her cousin Morgan Harris. Maggie Macintosh reports.
People still block a road to the city’s Brady Road landfill despite a court injunction to vacate the area Sunday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
A Garden City woman says her new front garden, built by middle schoolers who planted more than two dozen species known for their carbon storage capabilities, is becoming a conversation starter for climate action. H. C. Avery Middle School’s nature-lovers club completed its first tall grass prairie revitalization garden at the end of the 2022-23 school year. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Erna Andersen said she welcomed the opportunity to have students design a 200-square-foot garden and grow grasses that populated the area long before her family did. (Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On July 17, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported Manitoba premier Tobias Norris said the government would carry on the business of the province and submit its position and policy to the legislative assembly, following the results of the recent election, which resulted in a hung parliament in which his Liberal party remained in power. Two local airmen were severely injured after departing St. James for a scheduled flight to Grand Forks, when they experienced engine trouble shortly after takeoff and when they tried to land, the plane’s undercarriage caught in low telegraph wires, causing the plane to crash. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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