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Clearing this morning. High 24 C. Humidex 27. UV index 7 or high.
Almost one in four Canadians were directly affected by extreme weather events over the past year, a new poll suggests.
The Leger poll — released as Canada copes with its second-worst wildfire season on record — says 23 per cent of Canadians who responded said they were personally affected by extreme weather events like heat waves, floods, fires and tornadoes over the last 12 months. The Canadian Press reports.
Smoke from wildfires blankets the city as a couple has a picnic in Edmonton in 2024. (Jason Franson / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Goldeyes host the Sioux Falls Canaries at Blue Cross Park, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
An altercation over the failed sale of a pricey watch precipitated a high-speed, catastrophic collision in East St. Paul last spring that sent four people to hospital and left a road looking like a war zone, a Manitoba judge heard Wednesday.
Harley Dennis Masyk, 31, previously pleaded guilty in provincial court to dangerous driving causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon for causing the April 10, 2024 collision on Raleigh Street near Pritchard Farm Road at about 8:15 p.m.
He attacked one of the badly injured victims with a golf club he found in the wreckage after the crash.
“It appears to be a miracle no one was killed,” Crown prosecutor Vuk Mitrovic told provincial court Judge Anne Krahn at Masyk’s sentencing hearing Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene as looking like “a battlefield.” Erik Pindera has the story.
The April 10, 2024 collision on Raleigh Street just south of Pritchard Farm Road in the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul sent four people to hospital with serious injuries. (Submitted)
On the bright side
It’s not just your imagination, Winnipeg has dodged cankerworm season.
For the rest of the summer, residents can relax under tree canopies without worrying about finding the green inchworms crawling in their hair or on their backs. Nicole Buffie has more here.
City crews targeted their efforts on areas such as River Heights and Crescentwood, which had higher numbers of worm larvae earlier in the season. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On this date
On June 19, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported city police were concerned that the dismissal of an unregistered firearm charge against a North Dakotan could set a precedent for carrying unregistered handguns in Canada. Prime minister Pierre Trudeau told the Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers union, with 1,200 members poised to strike, that a six per cent wage increase in 1968 and ’69 was “fair and reasonable.” In Montreal, Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield confidently predicted his party would form a majority government in the June 25 federal election. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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