Your forecast
Sunny with increasing cloudiness and a 60 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon and risk of a thunderstorm. Expected high is 25 C, low 13, humidex 27 and UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
Fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay brings his 15th novel, All the Seas of the World, to McNally Robinson Booksellers tonight at 7 p.m. The event will aslo be livestreamed. For more information, click here.
Guy Gavriel Kay (Ted Davis photo)
Today’s must-read
Specialists insisted Monday a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women can be done safely “with a good possibility of success,” contradicting Premier Heather Stefanson’s reasons for rejecting demands to locate the victims of a suspected serial killer.
The experts said health and safety risks can be mitigated during a search for Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran at the privately-owned Prairie Green Landfill, just north of the city in the RM of Rosser. Chris Kitching reports.
Donna Bartlett, grandmother of Marcedes Myran, speaks at a press conference held in response to the Stefanson government’s refusal to search the landfills on Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Penny Rawlings recalls a time when tourist ships docking at the Port of Churchill were met with RCMP officers in red serge, locals in cultural regalia, and welcome signs. When the cruise ships stopped coming a decade ago, the welcome parties ended, too, says the owner of Arctic Trading Company souvenir shop for more than 40 years.
However, after watching hundreds of visitors take in the northern Manitoba town’s shops, tours and trails Sunday, Rawlings has hope the celebrations will begin again. Malak Abas has the story.
The mood in Churchill has been electric since the luxury liner Silver Endeavour docked Sunday morning, said Remi Foubert-Allen, owner of North Star Tours. (Kate Howell photo)
On this date
On July 18, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported two people were killed and five others injured when the boiler of a CPR locomotive exploded near Molson; the injured victims were brought to Winnipeg General Hospital. Livestock in the train were mangled and nearby telegraph wires were torn down by the force of the explosion. In Chicago, Jesse James III, grandson of the infamous outlaw, was held for questioning by police who said he had attempted to get blank cheques from a bank where he did not have an account; “It’s on account of my name,” James protested, “Everywhere I go they suspect me of something. I can’t live it down.” Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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