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Rain ending this morning, then cloudy, with 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 15 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
It’s election day in the Tuxedo provincial byelection. For more information, visit Elections Manitoba. Check out our section of coverage and opinion on the byelection below.
Today’s must-read
For years, Manitoba’s worst-kept secret was how hard it is to secure a government-funded child-care space.
The odds became nearly impossible last year when the then-Progressive-Conservative government announced that $10-a-day child care would soon be a reality.
While the news was celebrated by families — at least those lucky enough to have a spot — many child-care executive directors were gritting their teeth, anxious about what was to come. After all, there was already a chronic shortage of spaces in the province. The $10/day fee would further strain a maxed-out system.
Jeff Hamilton has the story here, in the latest instalment of our series investigating the state of child care in Manitoba: Building Blocks, Crumbling Foundation.
(John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
On a crisp morning off the coast of Marina di Ravenna, the Adriatic Sea glistens under the sun as marine biologist Linda Albonetti stands in a gently bobbing boat. Reaching into a plastic tub, she hefts out a sizeable loggerhead turtle and eases it over the side.
The release location is an unlikely haven: an area of methane extraction platforms symbolizing industrial intrusion in the turtles’ habitat. But since fishing is prohibited in the area, it’s a safe place to release turtles after they are treated at the Experimental Centre for the Protection of Habitats (CESTHA). The centre works to rescue and care for animals injured by trawlers and says its work has benefited more than 300 sea turtles, nearly 700 seahorses, more than 100 sharks and hundreds of thousands of cuttlefish in the past decade. The Associated Press has more.
Marine biologist Linda Albonetti displays her tattoo that reads “KEEP ME WILD” on her arm after releasing a turtle named Vulcano back into the Adriatic Sea. (Luca Bruno / The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 18, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that since the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce would not give further credit to the Winnipeg School Board until suitable guarantees were made by the city, trustees facing a looming inability to keep schools open and pay teachers, cartetakers and administrative staff decided to ask city council to arrange for the school board to do business with another bank. In Spain, Basque leaders fled as the insurgent vanguard came to within less than 1,000 yeards of Bilbao’s ourskirts. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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