Your forecast
Sunny with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Expected high is 28 C, humidex 31 and UV index 8 or very high. Low 18.
What’s happening today
Before the sun broke through the sky Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way. Spiritual advisers were set to lead a pipe ceremony in Minegoziibe Anishinabe, also known as Pine Creek First Nation, while a sacred fire was to be lit near where potential graves of children forced to attend residential school may be. The Canadian Press reports.
Minegoziibe Anishinabe Chief Derek Nepinak (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Going AWOL from a ball hockey tournament in Edmonton, getting into a fight in Latvia and starting a fire at CFB Shilo are a few of the more than 80 matters Canadian Armed Forces soldiers stationed at CFB Winnipeg and CFB Shilo were disciplined for between April 2017 and April 2022, according to documents obtained by the Free Press through an access to information request. But the bulk of what happened in each case remains secret. Katrina Clarke reports.
(Colin Corneau / The Brandon Sun files)
On the bright side
In late June, the owners of Donut House on Selkirk Avenue passed on a dough-stained, near-century-old recipe book to their neighbours down the street. North Enders have been enjoying the baked treats for 76 years, 49 of them at the hands of the Meier family, who kept the doors open, the ovens warm and customers happy.
“Some of our products are 75 years old, for sure. Some of them are older,” says now-former owner Russ Meier. On June 28, the Donut House was formally handed off to Jon Hochman and the Gunn’s Bakery team. For the past three weeks, Meier has been at the shop helping them transition into the doughnut biz. Cierra Bettens has the story.
Russ Meier (left), former owner of the Donut House on Selkirk Avenue, and Jon Hochman, who acquired Gunn’s Bakery in 2019. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On July 24, 1931: The Manitoba Free Press reported a coroner’s jury delivered a verdict that a young Indigenous man, Alfred Henderson, had killed Abby Levinson, a fur buyer from Kenora, Ont., in the bush some distance from St. Boniface; the jury also found the same revolver had been used by Henderson in the shooting of taxi driver J.L. Copeland, who survived. In a statement to police, Henderson denied having shot Levinson. Representatives of the three prairie provinces met in Winnipeg to set up an interprovincial trading corporation to market the 1931 wheat crop. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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