Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent shance of showers this afternoon with a risk of a thunderstorm. Expected high is 21 C, low 13, with a UV index of 7 or high.
What’s happening today
British Columbia’s ports are facing an uncertain future after the longshore workers union rejected a tentative mediated deal and resumed strike action that had been put to a temporary halt only last week. The Canadian Press reports.
British Columbia’s ports are facing an uncertain future after the longshore workers union rejected a tentative mediated deal and resumed strike action. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
“You are innocent.” Brian Anderson and Allan John (A.J.) Woodhouse longed to hear those words for the past 50 years. And in a Winnipeg courtroom at noon Tuesday, Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal finally spoke them aloud, acquitting the two First Nations men of the murder charges they were convicted of in 1974. Katrina Clarke has the story.
Allan Woodhouse (left) served 23 years before he was granted full parole in 1990. Brian Anderson served 10 years. He was granted full parole in 1983. They always maintained their innocence. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On July 19, 1940: The Winnipeg Free Press reported British and German air fighters battled above the Straits of Dover while a cloud of raiders swarmed down on a destroyer guarding the southwest English coast. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in the wake of his forces’ sweep through Poland and France, threatened the destruction of the British Empire unless his terms were met. In the United States, president Franklin Roosevelt pledged to continue his policy of condemning aggressor nations in the war while supplying material aid to the victims of those aggressors, as he accepted the Democratic party’s third term nomination. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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