Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and a risk of a thunderstorm. A high of 28 C and wind from the southwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h.
What’s happening today
Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final starts at 7 p.m. CDT in Sunrise, Fla.
Today’s must-read
In the monthly Free Press series Silenced Symptoms, we explore underdiagnosed, underrecognized and undertreated health issues affecting the lives of women, nonbinary and trans people. We share stories and lived experiences, while also raising awareness.
The latest installment by Jen Zoratti looks at postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, a condition that causes a person’s heart to beat abnormally fast when they stand up. Read the full story.
It took Deleene Clarke many months of having tests and seeing specialists before she was diagnosed with POTS. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Scientists studying a family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that delays their initial symptoms by five years.
The finding points to novel ways of fighting the mind-robbing disease – if researchers can unravel how a single copy of that very rare gene variant offers at least a little protection.
“It opens new avenues,” said neuropsychologist Yakeel Quiroz of Massachusetts General Hospital, who helped lead the study published Wednesday. “There are definitely opportunities to copy or mimic the effects.” The Associated Press has more here.
Neurologist Dr. Francisco Lopera, right, of the University of Antioquia, confers with fellow researcher Yakeel Quiroz of Massachusetts General Hospital. (Massachusetts General Hospital via The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 24, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, after one of the shortest budget debates in years, the King government was victorious in moving the budget forward into committee to consider its details; only one Liberal MP, Harry Leader of Portage la Prairie, voted against the annual financial statement. In Dauphin, a packed courtroom heard witnesses testify in the murder trial of three men from the Gilbert Plains district, accused in the murder of an elderly woman from Fishing River. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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