Your forecast
Mainly sunny with a high of 29 C, low 22, with a humidex of 34 and a UV index 8 or very high. Wind from the southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50.
What’s happening today
Federal byelections will be held today in Portage-Lisgar and Winnipeg South Centre, two of four byelections taking place across the country. Carol Sanders reports, and Will Braun has a column, about People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier’s run for the seat in Portage-Lisgar. As Katie May reported earlier this month, the Manitoba byelections drew visits from other federal leaders. For more information, visit the Elections Canada website.
Four new MPs are set to be elected to the House of Commons today. (Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
A massive labour dispute is simmering this summer as nearly 17,000 employees at Manitoba liquor marts, MPI and colleges are working under an expired contract and their union has told them to prepare for a strike vote. Carol Sanders has the story.
(Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Columnist Shelley Cook took her family to visit the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, and, as she writes, “it did not disappoint. As far as museums go, this one certainly had a way of opening up my eight-year-old’s big, beautiful imagination and inspiring play.” Read the full story here.
Making invisible soup at the Mennonite Heritage Village was one of several “pretend” activities that the trip inspired. (Supplied)
On this date
On June 19, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported the day was “saved” for home brewers, after Ottawa decided prohibiting the brewing of beer by anyone except a licensed brewer would “perhaps be worse than the disease it meant to cure.” A man from Peterborough arrived in Toronto to find that he was several days late to his own funeral, after a body was misidentified. The Lafayette Club in Minneapolis had burned to the ground, and killed two as a result of the fire. The club was one of the leading golf clubs of the twin cities. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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