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Hazy this morning and early this afternoon with a high of 22 and a low of 8. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming northwest 30 gusting to 50 this morning.
What’s happening today
RoseAnne Archibald is calling on supporters to tell their chiefs and councils to reinstate her after she was voted out as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations last week.
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency is in Japan to meet with government leaders and to see final preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries’ former chief executive officer scored a handsome bonus in his final year with the Crown corporation, in which his total compensation was topped up by more than 25 per cent. Danielle Da Silva reports.
Manny Atwal was paid $395,723 in 2022, or 27.5 per cent more than in 2021, public-sector compensation reports show. He left the corporation to take a job in the private sector in mid-December after being president for three years and leading MLL to record profits in 2021-22. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On July 4, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Regina, the end of an on-to-Ottawa trek came for 2,000 striking relief camp workers, and the next day they would be on westbound trains to return home; following clashes with police, one striker was expected to be charged in the death of an officer. In Manitoba, two deaths by drowning, one in Lake Winnipeg and the other in a swimming hole, brought the total of such fatalities to six within less than a week. Britain’s parliament wrestled with the issue of preventing an Italian-Ethiopian war and sought France’s assistance. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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