Your forecast
Mainly sunny with increasing cloudiness this afternoon. Expected high is 27 C, humidex 29, UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening this weekend
Fringe, fringe and more fringe! By Sunday our team of 21 writers will have hit the streets to ensure all the productions are reviewed online by Sunday evening. You can read our extensive coverage here.
“Everything is Super Wow” is based on B.C. playwright/performer Ira Cooper’s 2022 fringe entry “Mr. Coffeehead.”
Today’s must-read
In the past three months, Winnipeg, and the province, have experienced a spate of violent crimes involving young offenders. While hard numbers remain hard to confirm, the level of violence appears on the rise, justice sources say. Dean Pritchard has the story.
(Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Coffee lovers unite! Sheepdog Brew Co., which creates cold, canned treats for coffee lovers — and ethically sources beans — is opening its new facility with a taproom-like storefront Saturday in Oak Bluff. Gabrielle Piché has the details.
Shawn Black’s Sheepdog Brew Co. is opening its own storefront in Oak Bluff. (Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On July 21, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the U.S. Navy’s first Polaris missile, launched from an atomic submarine after four years and US$2.7 billion in develoment, added a new dimension to naval warfare. Winnipeg mayor Stephen Juba’s summoning of aldermen to a special meeting touched off speculation that premier Duff Roblin had tied the offer of a new city hall site to a program of urban renewal for central Winnipeg. Belgium was faced with UN pressure to get its troops out of the Congo, against a threat from the Soviet Union to intervene; the U.S. warned the Soviets not to send troops there. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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