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What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Calgary Stampeders at Princess Auto Stadium, starting at 7:30 p.m. Joshua Frey-Sam has a look at five storylines ahead of the game.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros (right) knows turnovers were a large part of the Calgary Stampeders’ success against the Blue and Gold in Week 4. (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
The search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of First Nations women slain by a convicted serial killer has officially ended, leaving the victims’ families feeling a mix of loss and hope.
Relatives of Morgan Harris, 39, and Marcedes Myran, 26, confirmed searchers finished working at the Prairie Green Landfill, located just north of the city in the Rural Municipality of Rosser, on July 9.
The search effort began Dec. 2 and turned up partial remains of both victims within a few months. Jeremy Skibicki killed the women, and two others, between March and May 2022.
“I don’t know if we will have complete closure, but we will have some type of closure,” Donna Bartlett, Myran’s grandmother, said in a phone interview. Tyler Searle has the story.
The search at Prairie Green began Dec. 2 and turned up partial remains of both victims within a few months. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.
It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero,” scientists reported Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel.
“We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born around young protostars,” said Leiden Observatory’s Melissa McClure from the Netherlands, who led the international research team. “For the first time, we can conclusively say that the first steps of planet formation are happening right now.” The Associated Press has more here.
This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the baby star HOPS-315 (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. McClure et al. via The Associated Press)
On this date
On July 18, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons withdrew its demand the government suspend the controversial Medical Care Insurance Act. In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Senate killed president John F. Kennedy’s mdeical care plan by a vote of 52 to 48. An airline mechanic in Winnipeg and the pilot of a crippled Viscount turboprop 2,260 miles away coordinated through harrowing minutes to safely land the plane with 39 passengers aboard in Gander, Nfld. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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