Your forecast
Sunny this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent of showers this afternoon and a risk of a thunderstorm. Expected high is 31 C, low 17, with a humidex of 33 and a UV index of 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
Former U.S. president Donald Trump is set to appear in court in Miami, Fla., to face multiple federal indictments relating to government documents being kept at his residence in Mar-a-Lago. The Associated Press reports.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump boards his airplane at Newark Liberty International Airport, Monday in Newark, N.J. (Bryan Woolston / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
Out-of-province surgeries contracted by Manitoba’s COVID-19 pandemic backlog task force have devoured about 18 per cent of its multimillion-dollar budget but account for less than one per cent of the procedures funded by the group. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
(The Canadian Press / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On June 13, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the British government was all but certain to default on its war debt to the United States, unless a late-night cabinet session could reach a new decision. U.S. delegates to the World Economic Forum in London noted the prime minister’s injection of the war debt issue at the outset of the conference, with one calling it inappropriate. In Saskatoon, two painters fell 60 feet to their deaths when their scaffolding came loose. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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