What’s happening today
This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP
Afternoon update on COVID-19: Manitoba health officials are holding a news conference on the COVID-19 situation at 1 p.m. After going six days with no news cases, the province has since announced four cases since Friday.
Dive search could be delayed: Dive teams will continue the search for Nour Ali today, weather permitting. Ali, a Syrian Kurd who arrived in Canada as a refugee in 2013, was in a boat that capsized on Lake Winnipeg on Saturday. His father, Hamza Ali, was killed. Three other men survived. Sarah Lawrynuik reports. READ MORE
Sentenced on spying charges: Paul Whelan — a former U.S. Marine who also has Canadian, Irish and U.K. citizenship — was sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison on espionage charges today. Whelan has denied he was spying for the U.S. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Slain man’s family to speak: Family members of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer outside a Wendy’s on Friday night, are holding a news conference today. The officer has been fired, another officer has been placed on administrative duty, and the city’s police chief has resigned in the wake of the incident. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny, with a mix of sun and cloud beginning later this morning, a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and risk of a thunderstorm, and wind from the south at 40 km/h gusting to 60 and from the west at 20 km/h beginning in the mid-afternoon.
In case you missed it
Peter H. KlippensteinThe Altbergthal village road (above). A horse and wagon (below). Photos such as these are featured in Mennonite Village Photography: Views from Manitoba 1890-1940.
Manitoba’s Mennonite history: Long-forgotten photographs featured in a new book show the history of this province’s Mennonite pioneers. John Longhurst reports. READ MORE
Program panned: Local landlords say Ottawa’s commercial-rent assistance program doesn’t work for Manitoba. “You have a program that’s designed nationally, but every province is different,” said Avrom Charach, a vice-president at Kay Four Properties. READ MORE
Nude news: Doug Speirs gives readers the naked truth in his latest column. READ MORE
On this date
On June 15, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Manitobans would choose from 186 hopefuls to select the new provincial legislature in the upcoming June 28 election; only the NDP was running a full slate of candidates. A severe thunderstorm, including hail and winds up to 60 mph, hit Winnipeg, Bissett, the Interlake and Red River regions, disrupting hydro and telephone service. Winnipeg’s civic executive policy committee gave a thumbs-down to extensive freeway development in the city, but endorsed the principle of railway relocation and the construction of a major urban transportation network. In Ottawa, the federal government was set to slap stiff export controls on gasoline and heating oil, in an attempt to prevent a potential energy crisis in the country in the coming winter.
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