Your forecast
Mainly sunny skies with a high of 34 C, humidex 39, UV index of 9 or very high and a low of 25. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon with wind from the south at 40 km/h gusting to 60.
What’s happening today
Beginning at noon, the Downtown BIZ’s annual Downtown Sounds Concert Series kicks off with a performance by Fiddlers on the Loose at the Chinese Gardens located on the corner of King Street and James Avenue. For more information, click here.
Today’s must-read
Yves Guillas and fellow members of Neepawa’s volunteer fire department didn’t know the scale of the tragedy unfolding near Carberry when they were called to a crash involving a bus and tractor-trailer. When they arrived at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5 at about noon Thursday, the catastrophic and fiery scene was like was nothing they had ever encountered before. Chris Kitching has the story.
A small burned-out transport bus lies in the ditch on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway at the intersection with Highway 5 near Carberry on Thursday afternoon. (Matt Goertzen / The Brandon Sun files)
On the bright side
While Aiden Ling’s peers were learning to tie their shoes, he was on his way to becoming one of Winnipeg’s youngest decorated chess champions. “I started playing in January 2021,” the Linden Christian School second-grader said. “I was six.”
Several medals and three championship trophies later, Aiden has made a name for himself as a young prodigy in Manitoba’s — and more recently, Canada’s — chess community. Cierra Bettens has the story.
Aiden Ling (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On June 20, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported provincial election results announced over the weekend showed the Liberal-Progressive Bracken government had increased its seat count from 26 to 33. A child was killed and six people were injured when a streetcar struck them on Selkirk Avenue. In the United States, Democrats associated with New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential run said the party must meet the prohibition issue squarely; Roosevelt was seen as the front-runner to be the Democrat’s presidential candidate. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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