Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness early this morning, with wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h this morning. High 23 C. Humidex 28. UV index 7 or high.
Peter Petkau was on his porch Monday night watching the rain pound the streets in Whyte Ridge when things took an ugly turn and a tornado ripped through the area.
“The wind was blowing really strong, and then it started blowing even stronger, and I figured, ‘OK, this is going to do some damage,’ and then it really came hard,” Petkau said in front of his home Tuesday afternoon in the aftermath of the ferocious storm that barrelled through his yard and those of his neighbours. Nicole Buffie has more here.
Storm damage in Whyte Ridge on Tuesday. Roofs throughout the neighbourhood had shingles ripped off and thrown into the street. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press0
What’s happening today
👻 Dalnavert Museum, 61 Carlton St., is leaning into both the unofficial holiday of “Summerween” and the museum’s designation as an “allegedly” haunted house and is hosting 10 days of Summerween programming, which kicks off today with Death at Dalnavert tours at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., exploring Victorian death customs, and Secrets & Spectres: A Dalnavert Mystery, a Victorian horror escape-room style experience, at 6:30 p.m.
It’s spooky season at Dalnavert. (John Woods / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Evacuations are underway at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre and in parts of Swan River as widespread flooding continues to impact Manitoba’s Parkland region and parts of the Interlake, leaving dozens of communities under states of local emergency and washing out roads across the area.
The province says 30 states of local emergency have been declared in relation to the flooding, while more than 50 provincial roads — along with numerous municipal roads — remain damaged, flooded or washed out as the region deals with the aftermath of heavy and unprecedented amounts of rainfall. Zoe Pierce has the story.
More than 50 provincial roads — including this section of Highway 10, north of Pine River — along with numerous municipal roads, remain damaged, flooded or washed out. (Government of Manitoba photo)
On the bright side
About 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, a village is being built where Indigenous girls, women and two-spirit people will be able to heal from the trauma of sexual exploitation within a supportive community guided by Indigenous matriarchs.
“Our philosophy is that you have to have long-term healing to deal with all the intergenerational trauma that got you to that point,” said Jamie Goulet, executive director of the Clan Mothers Healing Village and Knowledge Centre. “Our programming is quite different than any other model.”
That model is based on traditional knowledge and designed by Indigenous women who’ve been working with exploited Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people for decades. Josiah Neufeld has more here.
Marcelle Marion, a Red River Metis lawyer and legal director at Legal Aid Manitoba (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On July 2, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, prime minister John Diefenbaker called on Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev to resume Russian participation in the 10-nation disarmament negotiations. Six people were killed in an automobile crash near Lockport in one of the worst highway accidents in Manitoba’s history.
Today’s front page
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