Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a high of 21 C and a low of 10 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Calgary Stampeders at 7:30 p.m. Jeff Hamilton has everything you need to know ahead of kickoff.
Statistics Canada is set to release employment figures for June this morning.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has released Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) — it’s the third release of the six albums Swift plans to re-record.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba health authorities’ dependence on agency nurses cost taxpayers $19 million more in the past fiscal year, including in Westman, where spending on private, temporary staff skyrocketed by more than 80 per cent. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Preliminary numbers provided by Shared Health show Manitoba’s five regional health authorities spent a combined $60 million on agency nurses in the 2022-23 fiscal year, an increase of 47 per cent over 2021-22. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On July 7, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba would lose one seat and Greater Winnipeg would gain no additional representation in the House of Commons after new boundaries for the federal constituencies were proposed. The proposal suggested eliminating the riding of Springfield, dropping the province to 13 seats from 14. (Today, Manitoba has 14.) Prime minister Lester B. Pearson announced a seven-man cabinet shuffle. Pearson also appointed Winnipeg lawyer Richard S. Bowles as Manitoba’s new Lieutenant Governor. In an effort to “boost American military strength,” 3,400 U.S. marines arrived in Vietnam and 4,500 were set to land ashore the following week.
Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
