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‘It’s not stellar’: The majority of Winnipeg Transit buses during the afternoon rush hour are either early or late, a trove of data posted on the city’s website last week shows. Tessa Vanderhart reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of rain, a high of 22 C and peak winds from the northwest at 20 km/h this afternoon.
What’s happening today
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSNBA champion Danny Green fields questions from aspiring basketball players Tuesday morning during his two-day basketball camp at Sport Manitoba’s Canada Games Sport for Life Centre.
Hoop dreams: A basketball camp featuring Toronto Raptors guard and 2019 NBA champion Danny Green continues today, with 200 young people participating. Nicholas Frew reports. READ MORE
Iran to increase enrichment: President Hassan Rouhani says his country will increase its enrichment of uranium to “any amount that we want” starting Sunday. Higher enrichment would shorten the time Tehran would need to produce enough material for a nuclear bomb. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Donations for detainees: The Mennonite Central Committee is appealing for donations to provide “immigration detainee kits” to migrants being detained in Texas after seeking asylum in the U.S. John Longhurst reports. READ MORE
Iacocca’s obituary: Former auto executive Lee Iacocca, who helped launch the Ford Mustang and later resurrected Chrysler as its CEO, died Tuesday at age 94. READ MORE
Tax-cut complications: There have been some glitches related to the PST being decreased to seven per cent on Monday, but the province’s finance department said it has received only a “handful” of complaints about being overcharged. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
On this date
On July 3, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported that a 49-year-old Winnipeg man had been arrested and would be charged with murder, after a man he had allegedly assaulted died in hospital. The victim had been stabbed from behind; witnesses said there had been a longstanding feud between the victim and the accused. In Westminster in Great Britain, the Canadian colours were presented to adorn the monument of General Wolfe. READ MORE
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