Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with increasing cloudiness near noon then a 60 per cent chance of showers or thunderstorms this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 25 C. Humidex 28. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Local authors will convene at Sookram’s Brewing Co. (479-B Warsaw Ave.) tonight at 7 p.m. as part of the fourth Wild & Wonderful Words reading event.
Hosted again by creator and local author Sheldon Birnie, the event will feature Ariel Gordon — author of essay collections Fungal and Treed as well as volumes of poetry (Stowaways, Siteseeing) — and Mitchell Toews, author of the short-story collection Pinching Zwieback. The pair will be joined by writer/musician Antonio Marrazas Luna and Zoë Mills.
Today’s must-read
Race-based data collected from Manitoba hospital emergency department patients show racism can be a factor that affects wait times and care, the project’s lead said Tuesday.
“Today, we’re talking about some hard truths,” Dr. Marcia Anderson said at a news conference Tuesday with Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara and Dr. Shawn Young, chief operating officer of the Health Sciences Centre.
Anderson said adult African/Black patients waited the longest to be seen (an average of 5.5 hours between patient assessment and treatment at a Shared Health facility), data collected from May 2023 to September 2024 show. Indigenous adults waited the second longest at 5.3 hours. Those who identified as white had the shortest wait at 4.1 hours. Carol Sanders has the story.
Dr. Marcia Anderson, vice-dean of Indigenous Health at the University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, discusses findings of race and equity in the health-care system data at the Legislative Building, Tuesday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colours.
The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor galaxy by a telescope in Chile is so detailed that it’s already serving as a star-packed map.
Scientists used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to observe the galaxy for some 50 hours, stitching together more than 100 exposures to create the picture. The image spans 65,000 light-years, almost the entire galaxy. A light-year is 9.46 trillion kilometres. The Associated Press reports.
This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). (ESO via The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 18, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a 12-year-old girl was killed while riding a man’s bicycle she had learned to ride a week earlier; she struck the rear of a truck and slid under its dual wheels. The price of top-grade beef in Winnipeg was set to rise three cents per pound, but prices in other areas of Manitoba could jump by 15 to 20 cents a pound. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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