Today’s weather
Your forecast: Increasing cloudiness with a high of 24 C and UV index of 6 or very high. There is a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and early afternoon. Wind will be from the northwest at 30 km/h and gusting to 50 this morning.
What’s happening today
Mick Mulvaney, former White House chief of staff under president Donald Trump, is scheduled to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.
JetBlue, in a US$3.8-billion deal, has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines, which, if approved by regulators, would create the fifth-largest airline in the U.S.
FILE – A Spirit Airlines jet approaches Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pa., on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Spirit announced on Thursday, July 7, 2022, that it would again postpone a vote on the proposed merger with Frontier, a sign that it lacks shareholder support for the merger in the face of a rival bid by JetBlue Airways. Spirit delayed the vote by a week, until July 15. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Today’s must-read
An eight-year-old girl is suffering nigthmares and flashbacks after being grabbed by a stranger wearing a balaclava. She fought back, and was able to get free, but her mother worries the incident will have long-term effects. Chris Kitching reports.
The man approached the girl and took hold of her right wrist on a Meadowlark Place sidewalk. (Chris Kitching / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On July 28, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba premier Duff Roblin returned home from the premiers summit in Ottawa angry about an Ottawa Citizen article that reported he’d said any of his cabinet members could take over as pemier and do as good a job. Prime minister John Diefenbaker told Parliament of the summit that if even the most modest of the premiers’ requests were acted on, it would involve “far-reaching changes to the budget and tax system.” In the U.S., Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon selected Henry Cabot Lodge as his running mate. Search our archives for more here.
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