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A mix of sun and cloud with a high of 29 C and wind from the southwest at 20 km/h becoming northwest at 20 km/h this afternoon. Hazy.
What’s happening today
Statistics Canada will release its May gross domestic product report this morning, The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
Retention ponds around Winnipeg are packed with algae and murkier than usual this summer after the city stopped using a previously approved herbicide to clean the man-made bodies of water.
Diquat, known by the brand name Reward, is a common aquatic herbicide used by municipalities to limit plant growth in retention ponds. The product has been registered for use in Canada since 2000.
But a discrepancy in the product’s label was reported to the province earlier this year. An inquiry found Reward is authorized only for the treatment of aquatic invasive species, and the city’s licence to use it was revoked in the spring.
Jura McIlraith has the story.
The city regularly monitors the retention ponds and will sometimes hire a contractor to physically clear them. (Nic Adam / Free Press)
On this date
On July 31, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 20 people were killed in Ontario’s Williamsburg canal after a coach bus ripped into a panel truck parked on the Toronto-Montreal highway. Two boys in Ottawa were recovering after flying a kite with a copper wire. The City of Winnipeg was going to open talks with the Canadian Pacific Railway, aimed at getting the company to voluntarily pay taxes to the city. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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