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State of the art: Plans for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s $65-million Inuit Art Centre are at risk if the Progressive Conservative government doesn’t renew a financial commitment, president and CEO Stephen Borys says. The former NDP government had promised to provide $15 million for the centre. Randy Turner reports. READ MORE
Syrians on social assistance: Of the nearly 900 Syrian newcomers who arrived in Manitoba in the winter of 2015-16, most are on social assistance. Some worry about accepting temporary jobs and not being able to get welfare payments again if the work ends, Nour Ali says. Ali creates jobs and volunteer opportunities for refugees while helping them establish their own businesses. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: It will be mainly sunny to start the work week, with a high of 29 C and wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. It will be increasingly cloudy tonight with a 60 per cent chance of showers or thunderstorms late this evening.
In case you missed it
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS filesRestaurants and office space will call the Osborne Village home once renovations are done. A plan to install micro-apartments was scrapped.
Apartment plan axed: Plans for the former Osborne Village Inn will see the top two floors turned into boutique office space instead of micro-apartments, as had been planned. Retail tenants will occupy the main floor of the three-storey building. This is the second time the redevelopment plans have changed since the hotel shut down in 2015. The original plan called for it to be turned into a boutique hotel with rooms on the top two floors. Murray McNeill reports. READ MORE
Specialist sacked: The Manitoba Firefighters Burn Fund says a burn nurse clinical specialist is being terminated by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to reduce health-care costs. Burn fund chairman Martin Johnson says, “It’s one of those cuts that just doesn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason.” Randy Turner reports. READ MORE
Ahead of the pack: Vancouver’s city council voted last month to ban the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores. A spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Humane Society says a ban is something worth considering here, although it has partnered with pet stores here for the past five years to only shelter dogs and cats available for adoption. Ashley Prest reports. READ MORE
Up next
Talking politics in Thompson: The Manitoba NDP is holding the third of four leadership forums tonight at 7 p.m. in Thompson. MLA Wab Kinew and former MLA and cabinet minister Steve Ashton are the candidates. The final forum is Wednesday night in Winnipeg.
Around the water cooler
Mike Dembeck / The Canadian Press FilesFormer Newfoundland premier Danny Williams is a well-regarded contrarian.
Past example for Pallister: If Premier Brian Pallister is going to continue to tussle with the federal government, he would be wise to learn a lesson from a former Newfoundland and Labrador premier, columnist Dan Lett says. Danny Williams’ early years were strikingly similarity to what Pallister is going through, Lett writes. READ MORE
Another look at loss: Jeff Hamilton has five takeaway from the Blue Bombers’ road loss to the B.C. Lions on Friday night (Saturday morning here, to be precise). The Blue and Gold scored 42 points but, as was the case in the playoff game in Vancouver that ended Winnipeg’s 2016 season, the team lost on a long field goal attempt by Justin Medlock. READ MORE
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Discovery ChannelA great white shark
#SharkWeek: Some on Twitter are expressing disappointment that Discovery Channel’s “man versus shark” race to compare the speed between swimmer Michael Phelps and a great white shark did not involve putting Phelps and a shark in the same tank, thus disqualifying it as a literal race between the two.
On this date
On July 24, 1987: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a would-be bicycle thief was thwarted when he back-ended a city bus, which demolished the bike and sent the thief to hospital with head cuts. Near Marquette, eight cars of a 79-car CP freight train derailed. A court overturned a Workers Compensation Board award of $250,000 to the widow of a firefighter who died of cancer. READ MORE
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