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What’s happening today
Winnipeg Folk Festival kicks off tonight at Bird’s Hill Provincial Park. Whether you’re heading out to the festival for a day trip or a full weekend of camping, being prepared can make the whole experience more enjoyable. Reporter Eva Wasney has the tried and true tips on how to folk.
North America’s trading partners are in Cancun for two days of meetings to take stock of the last three years under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Today’s must-read
Premier Heather Stefanson has confirmed her government will not support a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women. Stefanson informed the women’s families the province is prepared to support a memorial, but not a search, based on the findings of an Indigenous-led committee that studied the feasibility of searching the site. Read the full story.
The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to be in the Prairie Green Landfill just north of the city. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On July 6, 1955: The Winnipeg Free Press reported hundreds of Winnipeg motorists and a large number of trolley busses were involved in Winnipeg’s “biggest traffic jam of the year” as the Redwood bridge was opened to allow a boat to pass along the Red River. In St. Claude, Man., winds reached nearly 60 kilometres an hour, toppling outhouses and pushing a “ghost train” of two runaway box cars about 20 kilometres down the rail line. The United Nations barred allied newspapermen from accepting “a rare Communist invitation to a press conference” in Panmunjom, Korea.
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