Your forecast
Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning; clearing this morning. Wind becoming west at 20 km/h this morning. High 20 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg International Jazz Festival continues as Jazz Winnipeg salutes Tony Bennett: The Voice with Nadia Douglas, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., at the Fort Garry Hotel Club Room. For more information, click here.
The Winnipeg Sea Bears host the Vancouver Bandits at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The Inclusion Support Program is designed “to reduce or eliminate barriers to allow a child with additional support needs to fully participate in an early learning and child care program,” according to the province’s Early Learning and Child Care website.
It adds: “all children should have equal opportunity to access licensed child care in their community.”
That’s not how Susana Lam, the director at Seven Oaks Child Day Care Centre, sees it. She would love to say every child who requires additional resources just needs a supporting letter from a desperate parent, but that’s hardly been her experience.
Jeff Hamilton has more here, as part of our six-part investigation into the state of child care in Manitoba: Building Blocks, Crumbling Foundation.
Susana Lam, executive director at Seven Oaks Child Daycare Centre (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
A buzz of excitement, nerves, and laughter fills the convention centre as eager students line up for cap-and-gown fittings and pose for selfies with beaming friends and family. This is their last day as students as they prepare to begin the work they’ve spent years studying.
More than 1,400 Red River College Polytechnic graduates out of the total 3,096 graduates will turn their tassels during nine convocation ceremonies across Manitoba throughout June.
The record-setting convocation attendance is approximately 50 per cent more than last year. Matthew Frank reports.
More than 1,400 Red River College Polytechnic graduates out of the total 3,096 graduates will turn their tassels during nine convocation ceremonies across Manitoba throughout June. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On June 19, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, controls on rent and evictions were removed from all new houses, apartments, duplexes and other self-contained housing completed after Jan. 1, 1947. A report from London said the Port of Churchill would have one of its busiest seasons in history, with 15-20 ships expected, handling 5 million bushels of grain. In Winnipeg, a four-year-old boy was found alive and unhurt after his wagon rolled onto Corydon Avenue and under an oncoming truck. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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