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Increasing cloudiness this morning, with a high of 24 C. Humidex 27. UV index 7 or high.
A Canadian Armed Forces reconnaissance team is in western Manitoba’s Parkland region to plot out how the military will help flood-hit communities.
Department of National Defence spokesperson Andrée-Anne Poulin said CAF members, including engineering specialists, arrived in the area Saturday. Chris Kitching has more here.
Canadian Armed Forces, Team Rubicon Canada and other personnel visited Swan Valley on Sunday to conduct assessments of flooded areas. (Supplied)
What’s happening today
Vancouver is set to host its seventh and final World Cup match today, in a final hurrah at BC Place for an event that galvanized the city’s diaspora communities and drew thousands of fans from across the country and the globe.
The round-of-16 match between Switzerland and Colombia comes less than four weeks since the city got its first taste of the world’s biggest sporting event, when Australia fans swamped the downtown core for a match against Turkey. The Canadian Press reports.
Switzerland fans march toward B.C. Place before a World Cup match against Canada in Vancouver in June. (Timothy Matwey / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
The federal government is offering a reprieve for international graduates who found work and settled in Manitoba, giving the province more time to process a backlog of provincial nominee applications.
Ottawa will extend 2,700 work permits until Dec. 31, 2027, so provincial nominee program applications can be processed before their permits expire.
“These are folks that are working. Employers need them,” Liberal MP Terry Duguid (Winnipeg South) said Monday. Carol Sanders has the story.
Liberal MP Terry Duguid (Winnipeg South) (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Manitoba’s public school system is receiving high praise from a Nigerian king who sent his only son to Grade 12 in Transcona.
Prince Adetola Samuel Owoade — known as “Sam,” to friends and family — kept his royal title under wraps throughout his tenure at Transcona Collegiate.
It wasn’t until an end-of-year ceremony that many of Sam’s peers and their families learned nobility was among the Class of 2026. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
A staff of honour was brought to Transcona Collegiate Institute’s convocation in June as a symbol of His Imperial Majesty, Abimbola Owoade I, who could not attend his son’s convocation due to his royal duties.(Supplied)
On this date
On July 7, 1941: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Russian army was undertaking the replusion of German mechanized armies while taking heavy losses on the entire central front guarding Moscow. In Manitoba, two airmen and a civilian died after their car crashed through the steel railing of Lockport Bridge and their vehicle fell 25 feet to the riverbank. U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt announced American forces had occupied Iceland, to supplement and replace British troops.
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