Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. High 23 C, Humidex 26, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The United Kingdom holds its general election today, with Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer hoping to topple Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government. Read more here.
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, left. (Phil Noble/Pool via The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
A search for potential residential school burial sites at a northern Manitoba First Nation has found 187 anomalies — both where the school used to be and in other places used by the facility, which was run by the Catholic Church.
Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias said ground-penetrating radar was used to find the anomalies at the school site, the location where the residences had been, a garden, near the airport, and other community areas, including the old Roman Catholic cemetery. All were between one to two metres underground.
“For us, it’s quite shocking to hear that many, because you wonder how many missing children are there?” Monias said at a news conference held in the community Wednesday afternoon. Kevin Rollason reports.
Cross Lake residential school outbuildings and church in 1947. (La Société historique de Saint-Boniface)
On the bright side
As the Royal Canadian Air Force C-130 Hercules flew overhead, the smile on Richard Earl’s face grew wider.
“I’ve never experienced a flyby until today. It was in my honour and it’s very, very humbling,” said Earl, an RCAF veteran, as he celebrated his 100th birthday with friends, family and air force personnel on Wednesday.
The RCAF is honouring 100 years of service, having been formed on April 1, 1924. To mark both occasions, the Hercules flew over Earl’s assisted-living centre in Fort Garry as partygoers cheered and applauded. Matthew Frank has the story.
Richard Earl with his daughter and members of the RCAF celebrate his 100th birthday, Tuesday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On July 4, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Winnipeg man living under an alias in Edmonton had been charged there in the axe slaying of another man, originally from Brandon. In Ottawa, general strikes by workers throughout the British Commonwealth were thought to have been inspired by Soviet Communists; many had been called by workers in defiance of their union leaders. The U.S. July 4 holiday saw almost 4,000 American tourists pass through Emerson, Man., over the weekend. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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