What’s happening today
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSTravellers at the Winnipeg James Armstrong International Airport. A change announced Tuesday also suspends the need for proof of vaccination for outbound international travellers and federally regulated workers.
Travel restrictions lifted: Vaccine mandates for domestic and outbound international travellers and federally regulated workers are suspended as of today. The revised COVID-19 rules were announced on Tuesday. READ MORE
Single-use plastics ban: Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and other cabinet ministers and MPs will lay out the Liberals’ single-use plastics ban in a series of events across Canada. Guilbeault is also expected to discuss plans to require a minimum amount of recycled content in other plastic items. A six-month phase-in period will begin once the final regulations for the ban are published this month. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Veterinary outreach program: Greg Nesbitt, the provincial natural resources and northern development minister, will announce funding and the launch of One Health, a veterinary outreach program for remote and Indigenous communities.
Weld shop expansion: Advanced Education, Skills and Immigration Minister Jon Reyes will attend an event celebrating the opening of the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology’s expanded weld shop.
Series shifts to Tampa: The Colorado Avalanche can take a commanding 3-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup final with a road win against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the defending two-time champions. READ MORE
Weather
Owen, 8, (in green) and his sister Aubree, 5, (in pink) try to beat the heat by playing at the splash pad at Fort Rouge Park Sunday. Temperatures reached 37 C. (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
Your forecast: Increasingly cloudy this morning with a 30 per cent chance of showers and risk of thunderstorms later this morning through the afternoon, a 60 per cent chance of showers this evening and into Tuesday morning, a high of 27 C, humidex of 32 and wind from the northwest at 15 km/h increasing to 20 km/h.
In case you missed it
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESIn April alone, MPI received an astonishing 871 pothole-related damage claims — 1,200 per cent higher than the average of 64 for the month.
Pothole claims explode: Drivers have already made nearly four times as many pothole-related insurance claims to Manitoba Public Insurance as they did in all of last year. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Charge ‘is not enough’: Niigaan Sinclair says the likely reason an 11-year investigation into abuse at the Fort Alexander residential school led to only one charge is that authorities “don’t believe survivors.” READ MORE
Cemetery chat: Shelley Cook’s latest column in on making friends in an unlikely place. READ MORE
Deadly attack in Syria: Thirteen people are dead, including 11 soldiers, after an attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 20, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the heavily favoured Joe Louis was knocked out for the first time in his boxing career, with Germany’s Max Schmeling winning in an upset before an audience of 40,000 at Yankee Stadium in New York. Despite voicing opposition, Conservatives in the Senate passed a bill that returned Canadian National railways to a directorate system. The French government, warning against currency devaluation, sought to repatriate gold hidden abroad by threatening punishment for secret hoarders. READ MORE
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