Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Hazy. High 24 C. UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
What started as a pandemic work-around has become a North End tradition.
Students, family, friends and civic-minded Winnipeggers are invited to get together today for the North End Grad Walk, a neighbourhood celebration of local high school grads.
Kicking off at 1:30 p.m. St. John’s High School, 401 Church Ave., and wrapping up at R.B. Russell, where a community barbecue and party await, walkers will stop along the way at the Bell Tower and Children of the Earth.
Today’s must-read
The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba is pledging to make it simpler and faster for internationally trained professionals to start practising here.
The licensing body has created a position dedicated to helping those applicants and begun allowing them to start the registration process while awaiting documentation from overseas entities, among other changes.
“We acknowledge that our processes have been slow to evolve and not always been as efficient or flexible as they could be,” registrar Deb Elias said in a news release unveiling the college’s modernization plan Wednesday. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Scientists from the University of Calgary have discovered a new dinosaur specimen that they say appears to be the “missing link” in the evolution of tyrannosaurs.
The specimen was originally discovered in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert over 50 years ago in the 1970s. But its significance wasn’t recognized until Darla Zelenitsky, an associate professor in the university’s faculty of science, sent graduate student Jared Voris to Mongolia on a research trip. The Canadian Press has more here.
A new dinosaur specimen, called Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, is believed to have crossed to North America via a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska 85 million years ago. (Julius Csotonyi / Supplied / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On June 12, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, prime minister Louis St. Laurent hinted he would soon turn the reins of government over to Conservative leader John Diefenbaker following the Liberals’ defeat in the June 10 election; world reaction to the Conservatives’ upset victory after 22 years of Liberal rule was mainly one of surprise. U.S. Treasury investigators tracked what they believed to be an organized ring smuggling raw Russian furs into the U.S. through Montreal and Winnipeg. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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