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Adam Bighill, the CFL’s most outstanding defensive player in 2018, didn’t enjoy the time off. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Friday night football: The 5-0 Blue Bombers face the 4-1 Tiger-Cats in Hamilton at 6 p.m. tonight. It’s only the sixth time since 1958 that CFL teams with only one combined loss after five games have played. Mike Sawatzy reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers increasing to 70 per cent this morning, a risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon, a high of 26 C and humidex of 31, and peak winds from the west at 30 km/h gusting to 50 starting late this morning.
What’s happening today
Security camera images recorded in Saskatchewan of Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are displayed during an RCMP news conference in Surrey, B.C., on Tuesday July 23, 2019. RCMP say two British Columbia teenagers who were first thought to be missing are now considered suspects in the deaths of three people in northern B.C. The bodies of Australian Lucas Fowler, his girlfriend Chynna Deese, of Charlotte, N.C., and an unidentified man were found a few kilometres from the teens’ burned-out vehicle. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Pair eluding police: RCMP remain in the Gillam area as two young men, suspects in the deaths of three people in northern B.C., remain on the lam. Free Press reporter Carol Sanders spoke with a retired criminal justice expert who led manhunts across the U.S. about how police might find the pair. READ MORE
Protest planned: Traffic might be blocked by a “healing ceremony” at Main Street and Higgins Avenue at 3 p.m. Organizers are demanding immediate action to “create and support grassroots spaces for mental health and justice for Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members struggling with present and past impacts of colonialism.”
Tunes in Teulon: The sixth edition of the Real Love Summer Fest music event starts outside Teulon tonight and continues all weekend. Erin Lebar reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
SASHA SEFTER / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSLead singer Joe Elliott gets the fans riled up as Def Leppard performs at Bell MTS Place Thursday evening.
Sweet as sugar: Eva Wasney has a review of Thursday night’s Def Leppard concert at Bell MTS Place. READ MORE
‘Horrendous’ abuse: A rural Manitoba couple are set to be sentenced this fall after admitting to sexually abusing two young girls, depriving them of food and keeping them in a locked room where they were forced to defecate on the floor. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Massive mural: A mural featuring a huge image of Jesus Christ’s face will soon be painted over as the Transcona church transitions to new leadership. Caitlyn Gowriluk reports. READ MORE
On this date
On July 26, 2014: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that while Manitoba school divisions had yet to fully recognize the rights of trans students, gender-neutral washrooms would be introduced. The Free Press took a look back, in the centenary of the year when the First World War broke out, at how Winnipeg prepared to answer the call to arms. Winnipeg mayoral candidate Gord Steeves pledged to sell the city’s golf courses and put the money raised toward road repairs. READ MORE
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