What’s happening today
Charcoal grey 2020 Chevy Equinox
Search continues for suspect: Police continue to hunt for homicide suspect Eric Paul Wildman in connection with the disappearance of a neighbour, Clifford Joseph. The RCMP said late last night that Wildman might be driving a charcoal 2020 Chevy Equinox, licence plate KGE 368. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
COVID-19 crisis: Provincial health officials are scheduled to hold their regular Wednesday COVID-19 news conference, which is usually about vaccines. More than 70 per cent of eligible Manitobans have been vaccinated with at least one dose. READ MORE
Set for summit: U.S. President Joe Biden is holding a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny this morning and mainly sunny this afternoon, with a risk of thunderstorms later today, a high of 32 C, humidex of 35 and peak winds from the south at 40 km/h gusting to 60.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSarah Manteuffel says she finds it easier to bike on the open street as a person with a disability. Some residents are complaining that the program is leading to more traffic on Academy Road and prompting confrontations between drivers and pedestrians.
Safe place to pedal: Julia-Simone Rutgers has a followup to her story on Wellington Crescent residents who are against the street being closed to most vehicle traffic between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Sarah Manteuffel, who has dwarfism, said the wide-open road provides a safer place for her to ride her bike. READ MORE
Hope of hugs: With more people getting a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Cody Sellar reports on what fully inoculated people can look forward to. READ MORE
Fiery farewells: Two MPs who won’t be seeking reelection slammed Canada in their official farewells to the House of Commons. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, the New Democrat MP for Nunavut, said the nation’s history is “stained with blood” and that people like her “don’t belong” in Parliament. Bloc Québécois MP Simon Marcil also blasted the treatment of Indigenous people, and said Canada “stole” the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Tongues wag about weight: Speculation abounds in South Korea over the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who appears to have lost a large amount of weight based on images published in state-run media recently. READ MORE
On this date
On June 16, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that business was booming in Manitoba, with new industrial plants to be established by Imperial Oil, John Wood, Cream of Wheat and Western Flyer Coach, as well as 18 new commercial establishments by a variety of companies, and new schools. The FBI arrested two men in New York on charges of giving away atomic secrets. Canadian prime minister Louis St. Laurent denounced the whole Soviet press as a “vast apparatus of falsification.”
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