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Today’s must-read
Work has started on a $61-million reconstruction of a dangerous section of Highway 75, prompting calls for additional repairs and better upkeep of the vital route between Winnipeg and the Canada-U.S. border. Chris Kitching has the story.
Highway 75 south of Ste. Agathe heading to Morris has long stretches of broken road with deep pot holes and cracks. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
A unique proposal aims to create transitional homes in West Broadway for women fleeing domestic violence and help them pursue education. The University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corp. hopes to transform two lots to provide a 15-unit building for women and children who have experienced gender-based violence. To be eligible, the women involved must also be seeking ways to further their education. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
The University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corp. hopes to transform two lots in West Broadway to provide a 15-unit building for women and children who have experienced gender-based violence. (City of Winnipeg / Architects at Play)
In case you missed it
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89. The Associated Press reports.
Cormac McCarthy (Derek Shapton / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On June 14, 1943: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in a 48-hour offensive, RAF and American heavy bombers dropped 5,250 tons of bombs on seven German industrial and U-boat targets, the heaviest aerial bombardment against Germany in the war so far. Allied bombardment hit Sicily, destroying 158 Italian aircraft; Linosa and Lampedusa fell, and Italian leader Benito Mussolini personally ordered the surrender of his fortress at Pantelleria. A newspaper report posited that these two offensives, following the Allies’ North African campaign, presaged a larger, full-scale Allied invasion. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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