What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / FREE PRESS FILESFamily and friends gathered for a memorial where Hudson was killed at the corner of Lagimodiere and Fermor.
Rally for teen killed by cops: A rally in protest against the fatal police shooting of Eishia Hudson, 16, in April begins at the legislature at 6 p.m. Hudson’s father has said he will be there. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Bid to persuade businesses: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit a café in Chelsea, Que., to underscore his government’s call for small business owners to use the federal wage subsidy program to rehire workers. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Canadians charged with spying: China has charged two detained Canadians — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — with spying. Both men have been held since 2018 in an apparent attempt to pressure Ottawa to release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy, with a mix of sun and cloud beginning later this morning, a high of 20 C and peak winds from the southwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 late this afternoon.
In case you missed it
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSCinema City at the Northgate Shopping Centre on McPhillips Street paid its rent for April and May on May 19. The mall returned the cheque and said it would forge ahead with terminating the cinema’s lease. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Cinema City lawsuit: Cineplex is suing the landlord of its Cinema City Northgate multiplex after the lease, set to expire in 2022, was cancelled. The mall’s property managers, Marwest Management Canada, changed the locks on the theatre and posted a notice on its doors last month. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Get ready to gamble: Winnipeg’s two casinos are tentatively set to reopen as early as July 2, the Free Press has learned. Casinos were not included in Phase 3 of the province’s reopening plan, which starts Sunday. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Pallister overstepping, chief says: Grand Chief Jerry Daniels, leader of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization, says Premier Brian Pallister’s attempt to prohibit smoking in all gaming centres infringes on the rights of First Nations. “He is trying to assume control and assume sovereignty, and I don’t think that has any credibility when it comes to creating covenants between nations and between peoples,” Daniels said. READ MORE
Council could reduce audits: A City of Winnipeg committee voted Wednesday to nix a requirement all councillors’ ward allowances be audited every year. The governance committee voted in favour of ordering a report that lists options to audit councillors “on a rotational basis.” Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Harassed by hawks: A Transcona woman says her family is being terrorized by some Cooper’s hawks that attacked her mother and are preventing mail delivery. Kellen Taniguchi reports. READ MORE
In sports
Clara Hughes is greeted by students in High River, Alta., in May 2014 during her tour across Canada to raise awareness about mental health. (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press files)
Hughes a champ again: Free Press readers have chosen Olympic medallist speedskater and cyclist Clara Hughes as Manitoba’s greatest athlete of all time. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
Time to spike season: In his latest column, Jeff Hamilton says the CFL commissioner’s open letter reeks of desperation and that it’s time to cancel the 2020 season. READ MORE
Hockey hub: The federal government has issued an order in council that would allow Edmonton, Toronto or Vancouver to serve as one of two hub cities for the return of NHL hockey, a federal official told The Canadian Press. READ MORE
On this date
On June 19, 2013: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the decades-long mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the Bell of Batoche, a key piece of Métis history, would be revealed in the coming week; rumours of its whereabouts after it disappeared from an Ontario legion in 1991 had circulated for decades, including that it had been tucked away in the hometown of a former lieutenant governor or that it had been stolen by a Stony Mountain inmate who in 2005 claimed responsibility for the theft. The City of Winnipeg was set to test an environmentally friendly alternative to mosquito fogging. The owner of a Winnipeg camera repair shop blamed a culture of disposability for forcing his business to close.
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