Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with local smoke. Wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h this morning. High 30 C. Humidex 37. UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
🏀 The Winnipeg Sea Bears and Vancouver Bandits will face off for a third time this season with the top spot in the Canadian Elite Basketball League’s Western Conference at stake. Canada Life Centre, 7 p.m. Joshua Frey-Sam has everything you need to know here.
Winnipeg Sea Bears head coach Mike Raimbault during a timeout against the Edmonton Stingers at Canada Life Centre. (Neil Noonan / CEBL)
🎸 Stellar plays at Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club tonight at 8 p.m.; admission is $20. “Surf-rock melodies situate indie-rock quartet Stellar at the centre of a whirlpool of misdirection on the band’s latest single The Third Beer,” writes Ben Waldman, “a refreshing track that cracks open the bottle to pour out reflections on being reduced and reused by a cycle of selfish soul drinkers.” Read more here.
Stellar (Josh Lakatos photo)
Today’s must-read
Manitobans outside Winnipeg were unable to get through to 911 to request police, fire or ambulance service for hours Wednesday after a fibre optic line was severed.
Telecom provider Bell Canada, which runs Manitoba’s 911 network, said the disruption affected calls routed to the public safety answering point in Brandon.
“This PSAP serves most of the province outside the Winnipeg area,” Bell spokesperson Elise von Scheel wrote in an email to the Free Press.
The Brandon Police Service announced it was affected by a 911 outage shortly after 1 p.m. Bell sent a notice shortly after 4:10 p.m. to announce 911 service had been restored after a “third-party cable cut” caused the outage. Chris Kitching has the story.
(Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Getting a tattoo or going out to a bar are common things to do when turning 18, but Saige Zdebiak’s first act of adulthood was donating blood.
“It was always kind of a goal of mine. I’ve always wanted to do it because my mom’s done it hundreds of times,” said the now-22-year-old while donating at Canadian Blood Services earlier this week.
Zdebiak needed a heart transplant when she was three and developed Lyme disease when she was 10. She gives back today so health-care workers can continue to help people the way they helped her. Tiago Resko has more here.
Sage Zdebiak says she gives blood so that health-care workers can continue to help others the way they helped her. (Tiago Resko / Free Press)
On this date
On July 23, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Washington, D.C., Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. gave a Senate committee first-hand information on the hazards to Black families making overnight trips by car in the United States. Three Winnipeg aldermen on the board of trustees of the Winnipeg General Hospital would be asked to launch an investigation into charges by a woman that her husband was left lying in a hospital corridor for more than four hours.
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