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PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth.
‘Community in crisis’: Police Chief Danny Smyth says meth is to blame for a surge in violent crime in Winnipeg last year, which increased seven per cent compared with 2016. “Sadly, not a week goes by where I don’t talk to a parent who’s begging me to arrest their kid for meth use because it’s the only way they can access treatment or ensure their safety,” Smyth says. “This is tragic.” Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Reports to resume: The provincial Health Department will resume making quarterly summaries of critical incidents involving patients, hours after telling the Free Press it would be filing them twice per year. The last published summary covered the first quarter of 2017, when 17 incidents were disclosed, including four patient deaths. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Fires kill 50: Wildfires in Greece have killed at least 50 people, authorities said earlier this morning after 26 bodies, believed to be family members, were found together northeast of Athens. The two biggest fires started Monday amid dry conditions. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: There will be a mix of sun and cloud today, with wind at 20 km/h gusting to 40 starting later this morning, a high of 25 C and humidex of 28.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSHans George Scheppner had been found dead with ‘obvious stab wounds’ on Saturday morning in his Henderson Highway apartment by Winnipeg police.
Delayed discovery: A 73-year-old woman is charged with fatally stabbing her husband in their Henderson Highway apartment. Police say they found the 85-year-old’s body Saturday, several days after he was killed. Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
Top firm: Law firm Thompson Dorfman Sweatman is the first tenant in True North Square, the first new office building in downtown Winnipeg in 25 years. Business reporter Martin Cash took a tour of the firm’s space on the top three floors. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Sniper Patrik Laine will be in line for a big raise next season. (John Locher / The Associated Press)
Cap quandary: The Jets will be near the salary cap ceiling when they’ve finished filling their roster, Mike McIntyre reports. The team will have some tough decisions to make after next season, too, with two stars set for massive pay raises. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
On this date
On July 24, 1987: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Winnipeg provincial court judge had blunt words for an inept bicycle thief whose getaway was thwarted when he plowed into the back of a city bus: “Don’t take bicycles that don’t belong to you,” said Judge Kris Stefanson. “Especially when you don’t know how to drive them very well.” CP Rail investigated a derailment near Marquette, in which eight cars of a 79-car train came off the tracks. A Court of Queen’s Bench judge overturned a $250,000 award by the Workers Compensation Board to the widow of a firefighter who died of cancer. READ MORE
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