COVID-19 crisis
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the special committee on the COVID Pandemic in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Thursday, June 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Grits gain, Tories tumble: A poll taken for the Free Press in early June shows support for the federal Liberals has increased by nine per cent since the last election, while support for the Conservatives has plummeted by 15 per cent. The Tories were in third place, eight percentage points behind the NDP. “An increasing share of Manitobans feel the Trudeau government has done a good job of handling the COVID-19 pandemic over the last little while,” Curtis Brown of Probe Research said. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Pandemic on the Prairies: Testing data show all three Prairie provinces are testing for COVID-19 far below their capacity, likely in an effort to save resources for a second wave. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Tracking truancy: The provincial government has asked schools to collect information about students who have lost contact with teachers since in-person classes were suspended. Manitoba teachers are bound to respect the confidential nature of student information unless they have concerns about the pupil’s welfare. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Another curve to flatten: Niigaan Sinclair’s latest column is on how some experts are calling the pandemic’s impact on Indigenous communities a “syndemic.” READ MORE
Group homes open to visits: People can now have indoor visits with their loved ones at group homes for intellectually and developmentally disabled people. Some facilities are still determining how to host visits safely, Nadya Pankiw reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers until the late afternoon, a high of 21 C, and wind at 15 km/h from the west shifting to 20 km/h from the northeast beginning later this morning.
More on pandemic
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSJarrett Bargen, manager of the Falafel Place, says Phase 3 isn’t making a difference. Despite the loosened restrictions, the need for distancing between tables hasn’t changed how many can fit inside. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
Divisive issue: Phase 3 of the province’s reopening plan began Sunday. Several restaurants, busy with Father’s Day brunch crowds, said they hadn’t been able to buy dividers that would allow them to place tables closer together, and some aren’t planning to. Julia-Simone Rutgers reports. READ MORE
Keeping the faith: Our latest editorial states the provincial government should stand its ground after some churches launched a petition to ease pandemic restrictions. READ MORE
Afternoon update: Health officials will hold a news conference on Manitoba’s COVID-19 situation this afternoon. The province announced two new case of the virus Saturday and none Sunday. READ MORE
Farm workers coming: The Mexican government will resume sending farm workers to Canada after Ottawa promised more inspections and overnight to curb COVID-19. At least two Mexican men have died and hundreds more have fallen ill on Canadian farms. READ MORE
Pakistan pushes ahead: Pakistan’s government is proceeding with reopening plans even though the virus is spreading there at one of the fastest rates in the world. READ MORE
In case you missed it
BLDG ArchitectureA six-storey project with 89 residential units and main-floor commerical space is expected to rise up from where the Osborne Village Inn once stood.
Hole in neighbourhood’s heart: With demolition complete, the developer building a six-storey development on the former site of the Osborne Village Inn said it hopes to break ground on the project as early as this fall. Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
Military investigates meme: A letter to Canadian troops states military police are investigating reports of a service member spreading racist images. The incident was reported to have occurred in Quebec and targeted Black people. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
‘Angry and outraged’: A noose was found Sunday in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR’s elite Cup Series. He successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues two weeks ago. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Cases ‘completely different’: China’s government told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to “stop making irresponsible remarks” linking its charging two Canadians with espionage to Canada’s earlier arrest of a Chinese tech executive. The spying charges are “completely different” from the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, a foreign ministry spokesman said. READ MORE
Eight children drown: Eight kids, described as elementary-school age, drowned in a river in China after one fell in and the others jumped in to help. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 22, 1914: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Robert Borden, prime minister of Canada, had been knighted by King George V. The waters of the St. Lawrence claimed the life of a New York diver who was working for a Quebec salvage company to secure a chain to the propeller of a sunken liner as part of an operation to retrieve the vessel. In Minneapolis, Minn., a bearded bandit shot and killed a shopkeeper; the noted outlaw was wanted in connection with 10 other robberies in the city over the previous two months.
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