Your forecast
Cloudy, with showers or thunderstorms beginning early this morning and ending this afternoon. Amount 10 to 15 mm. Widespread smoke late this afternoon. Wind becoming north at 30 km/h late this afternoon. High 21 C. Humidex 27. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival continues in the Exchange District and at various locations throughout Winnipeg. For show reviews, click here.
(Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A coalition is urging the Manitoba government to use some of its Big Tobacco settlement to set up a research and education foundation to prevent the next generation from being addicted to nicotine.
“We need to empower our kids and help them understand how dangerous nicotine is,” said epidemiologist Cynthia Carr, executive director of the Manitoba Tobacco Reduction Alliance.
Ahead of the start of the claims process, Manitoba should prepare to invest some of its estimated $1.1-billion settlement toward prevention efforts targeting youth, she said.
“Punitive approaches don’t work,” said Carr, who’s with the non-profit whose members include the Canadian Cancer Society, Manitoba Lung Association, University of Manitoba, Pharmacists Manitoba. Carol Sanders has the story.
(Jenny Kane / The Assciated Press files)
On the bright side
The questions were absurd, random and insulting. But that’s how clueless, comically corpulent and cringe-inducing television celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick rolls.
And for Winnipeg’s mayor, who bore the unrelenting brunt of the bloated, fictitious character’s improvised comedy chaos at Assiniboine Park Saturday evening, it was an over-too-soon dream come true.
“I’ve never been a part of anything like what I experienced Saturday night,” Scott Gillingham said Monday, still basking in the glow of the exquisite pain he endured sitting on stage opposite one of Canadian comic actor Martin Short’s beloved over-the-top characters. Joyanne Pursaga has more here.
Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham is interviewed by Martin Short character Jiminy Glick at the Great Outdoor Comedy Festival at Assiniboine Park Saturday. (Mike Peters photo)
On this date
On July 22, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Oklahoma pilot Wiley Post departed from Fairbanks, Alaska, flying to Edmonton, in continuation of his solo flight around the world; he had until the evening the following day to reach New York in time to beat the record of 172 hours and 31 minutes he and navigator Harold Gatty had set in 1931. The crash of prices in all stock and commodity markets continued as the most frenzied selling in four years hit Wall Street. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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