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A mix of sun and cloud with a high of 29 C and a low of 18 C.
What’s happening today
Kenyan-born Ondara plays the Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St., at 8 p.m. For ticket info, visit myparktheatre.com or ticketweb.ca.
Ondara (Supplied)
American heavy metal act Avenged Sevenfold brings its Life is but a Dream tour to Canada Life Centre, with openers Alexisonfire, starting at 6:30 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold (Chris Pizzello / Invision / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
Al Wiebe has seen every side of the struggle to afford a place to live. He made six figures in the advertising business before losing his job and living on the streets for more than two years.
He’s found some stability in a one-bedroom apartment in the downtown core, but a new hurdle has appeared: despite the province announcing July 20 that the new rent increase guideline for many Manitoba apartments would be raised from zero to three per cent in 2024, he and all other tenants in his building were hit with a 15 per cent rent increase several months ago. Malak Abas reports.
“For myself, a $135 rent increase when I’m a household caregiver, given the fact that we’re paying a more-than-20 per cent increase in groceries from last year to this year, it’s a tragedy for everybody,” Al Wiebe said on Friday. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On July 31, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported Ottawa asked the Merchant Marine to report on the importation of coal, particularly from Wales and Scotland. Alberta’s wheat board bill advanced through committee and was expected to be passed before the legislature prorogued; the province would confer with Saskatchewan and the federal government on the creation of the wheat board. In Nome, Alaska, Capt. Roald Amundsen abandoned his plan to fly over the North Pole until the next year. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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