Your forecast
Sunny, with local smoke this morning. Wind becoming south at 30 km/h this morning. High 29 C. Humidex 33. UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
Rockin’ Thunder, featuring Def Leppard, Joan Jett, Foreigner and Toque, takes place at Princess Auto Stadium, 315 Chancellor Matheson Rd., starting at 5 p.m. Eva Wasney has a feature on local drummer Jeff Elwood, who resumed playing music after he was paralyzed from the chest down, and his connection with Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen, who also relearned how to drum after losing his left arm in a car crash in 1984. Read the full story here.
Rick Allen (left) and Jeff Elwood both play on modified drum kits. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Two student pilots are dead after their single-engine planes collided in the sky above southeastern Manitoba.
Steinbach RCMP was alerted at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday about a collision involving two aircraft — a Cessna 152 and Cessna 172 — in the Rural Municipality of Hanover.
Police officers, firefighters and emergency medical services located the wreckage of two small aircraft south of Steinbach, Cpl. Melanie Roussel told reporters later in the day.
“The two pilots were pronounced deceased on scene. There were no passengers aboard,” Roussel said during a news conference at RCMP headquarters in Winnipeg. Maggie Macintosh and Nicole Buffie have the story.
Investigators at the scene of where two planes from Harv’s Air flight school crashed south of Steinbach Tuesday. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Scott Oake is used to hob-nobbing with famous hockey players, but goodwill from a Hollywood superstar has him feeling starstruck.
The longtime Winnipeg sports broadcaster shared an Ottawa stage with actor Ryan Reynolds on Canada Day as the two were among 88 inducted into the Order of Canada.
The two spoke briefly about the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, named after Oake’s son, who struggled with addiction and died of an overdose at 25 in 2011, along with the planned Anne Oake Family Recovery Centre, named after his wife, who died in 2021 of an autoimmune liver disease at 65.
Oake said the Vancouver actor made a donation to the Bruce and Anne Oake Memorial Foundation the day before the ceremony, and they spoke on the phone Monday about how he could offer further support. Malak Abas has the full story here.
Scott Oake looks on as Ryan Reynolds chats with Deantha Rae Edmunds after she was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in Ottawa on July 1. (Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On July 8, 1941: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Red Army said the German forces advancing on Moscow on the central front had been hurled back in retreat. In London, prime minister Winston Churchill said the British and U.S. navies might profitably assist each other in guarding the dangerous waters off Iceland. Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King would visit Winnipeg and deliver an address on the subject of Canada at War. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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