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Increasing cloudiness, with a 70 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming north at 20 km/h this afternoon. High 26 C. Humidex 29. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet this morning with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Alberta.
It’s Trump’s first visit to Canada since he started repeatedly saying the country should become an American state, leading Canadians to boo the American anthem at hockey games. The Canadian Press reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Calgary International Airport, Sunday, ahead of the G7 Summit. (Mark Schiefelbein / The Associated Press)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew and his NDP government are now the most popular party for both Winnipeggers and Manitobans across the province while Obby Khan has not been able to dent that popularity in the almost two months since he became Tory leader.
A Free Press-Probe Research poll has found the NDP, in seat rich Winnipeg, not only have the support of 62 per cent of voters, but, at 50 per cent, are now nine percentage points higher than the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba beyond the Perimeter Highway.
University of Manitoba political studies professor Christopher Adams said while the Winnipeg number for the NDP is down slightly from the 64 per cent support the party received in the last Free Press-Probe poll in March, it is up a full 10 percentage points since the October 2023 swept it to a majority government. Kevin Rollason has the story.
On the bright side
A handful of community groups are coming together this week for a campaign to benefit hungry Manitobans.
The food drive in south Winnipeg kicks off Monday and runs until Saturday. People are invited to drop off donations of non-perishable food items at Align, a student housing building at 2537 Pembina Hwy.
All donations will go to Harvest Manitoba, the non-profit charitable organization committed to ensuring no one in the province goes hungry. Aaron Epp has more here.
Participating in the food drive is a way for the Winnipeg Chinese Senior Association to turn its values into action, says Songyan Liu. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On June 16, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Arkansas, 100 families were forced to flee their homes after the Stephens Levee on the White River failed, and floodwaters swept over a large area. In Minneapolis, a professor of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania told members of the American Medical Association that chronic appendicitis, a condition medically recognized for decades, had no basis in fact. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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