What’s happening today
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Set for vote on UN seat: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s long campaign to get Canada a seat on the United Nations Security Council is nearly at an end. UN ambassadors will begin voting on the matter at 8 a.m. CT. The process will take at least five hours but could be repeated Thursday if two of the three competing countries — Canada, Ireland and Norway — receive fewer than two-thirds of the vote. Trudeau declared his intention to compete for the seat in 2015. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Federal funds: Parliament is expected to approve the Liberal government’s supplementary spending estimates, including about $6 billion in new funds. The NDP said it will support the estimates in the confidence vote after Trudeau announced Tuesday he’s extending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Conservative candidates debate: Four federal Tory leadership hopefuls will debate each other for the first time in Toronto this evening. The debate, in French, will be streamed online and will followed by an English debate Thursday. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Deadly border dispute: China said it is seeking a peaceful resolution to a border dispute after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a border skirmish. “Both sides agree to resolve this matter through dialogue and consultation and make efforts to ease the situation and safeguard peace and tranquility in the border area,” foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said today. READ MORE
Public forum on Kapyong plan: A draft master plan for the former Kapyong barracks has been released, and Treaty One Development Corp. is hosting a webinar this evening to collect feedback from the public and answer questions. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be a scorcher, with a mix of sun and cloud for much of the morning, mainly sunny in the early afternoon, with a 60 per cent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm beginning in the late afternoon, a high of 33 C, humidex of 38, and wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50. A heat warning is in effect. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal rises during a meeting of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal says he’s been revolted by recent videotaped examples of “police brutality” against Indigenous People in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
‘Stop the hate’: Northern Affairs Minister and Winnipeg MP Dan Vandal, who is Métis, told a House of Commons committee Tuesday he is “revolted” by recent recorded examples of “police brutality” against Indigenous people. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Bid to rename Cecil Rhodes School: Winnipeg School Division trustee Jennifer Chen presented a notice of motion Monday night on renaming Cecil Rhodes School. In the notice of motion, she called Rhodes a white supremacist whose philosophy led to the “subjugation and oppression of countless Africans.” Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Tiny terrors: In his latest column, Doug Speirs recounts run-ins with a tick and a nose-hair trimmer. READ MORE
On this date
On June 17, 1993: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Hillcrest Equestrian Centre hayride turned into a nightmare when the horses pulling the hay wagon ran out of control; six adults and 28 children were thrown from the wagon when it overturned. Ten children were taken to hospital. The Sacramento Gold Miners, the first U.S. football team to be allowed into the CFL, were set to square off against the Blue Bombers in Winnipeg; the Bombers had argued vehemently against the intrusion of U.S. teams into the league.
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