Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a few showers beginning early this morning and ending this afternoon. Widespread smoke. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High 19 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Canada’s premiers are meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in person for the first time since the federal election to pitch which major projects they think should get fast-tracked.
The full list of big industrial projects they’re discussing is being kept secret, since they don’t want to send a bad signal about anything that doesn’t make the short list. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, Quebec Premier Francois Legault and other first ministers in March. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
A downtown Winnipeg soup kitchen is trying to raise funds to continue building space for 10 detox beds after the project went over budget.
The cost to renovate and combine 667 and 669 Main St., owned by Lighthouse Mission, has climbed to $4.4M from $3.4M, the charity’s president, Daniel Emond, said.
The project is 75 per cent completed and at least $500,000 will need to be raised by the end of July for work to continue. Matthew Frank has the story.
Lighthouse Mission director Peter McMullen says the beds are essential to help people struggling with addiction. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On the bright side
Dave Elmore recalls the ribbing he got as a teenager when many of his friends were buying their first cars and he bought a bike instead: a blue 10-speed CCM Turismo.
“Cycling’s always been important to me,” he says. “It’s always been something I’ve done.”
Today, the 70-year-old Charleswood resident shares his passion for cycling through his volunteer work as chairperson of Bike Week Winnipeg. The annual event features programming meant to encourage and engage cyclists. This year’s edition takes place June 8-14. Aaron Epp has more here.
Dave Elmore co-founded the cycling advocacy group Bike to the Future, now known as Bike Winnipeg, in 2007. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On June 2, 1926: The Manitoba Free Press reported that at the Royal Alexandria Hotel, J.B. Coyne, K.C., asserted to attendees of the annual meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers Association that if the propositions by the city of Regina were sustatained by the railway commission, Manitoba stood to suffer an additional freight rate burden of $1 million per year. Coyne argued that Winnipeg was the point from which distributive freight rates should begin, not Regina or Vancouver. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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