Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and early this afternoon. Today’s high is 24 C.
What’s happening today
As part of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation’s summer tours season, photographer Leif Norman and historian Susan Algie will explore the present through the past with the help of historic postcards.
Those who join the free-to-attend photo walk downtown will view present-day buildings and learn about their history on the fully accessible route. Union Station, Via Rail, 123 Main St., 6:30 p.m.
Winnipeg Architecture Foundation presents a Postcard Time Machine tour today. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The scope of a 40-hour outage that affected Manitoba Telus cellphone users in March is more extensive than first reported — it turns out 59 people frantically dialled 911 without reaching help.
The Free Press has reported that family and friends of a Fisher Branch-area man who died of a heart attack had desperately called 911 for 90 minutes, unaware the system was out of service on their Telus-connected phones.
Kevin Rollason has the story.
Telus has disciplined one of its own employees over the 911 outage, which it blames on an equipment failure in Bell facilities. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A group of local high schoolers are savouring the sweet taste of victory.
Earlier this month, five student chefs from Gordon Bell High School made history as the first team from outside Quebec to win the national finals of La Tablée des Chefs Canadian Culinary Competition, an inter-school cooking contest now in its 12th year.
Eva Wasney has the story.
The award-winning Kitchen Brigade team, from left: Matea Thiessen-Unger, Cailyn Olshevski, Yevhen Zinchenco, Avery Van Solkema and Sebastian Salter. (TABLÉE DES CHEFS PHOTO)
On this date
On June 25, 1969: The Winnipeg Free Press reported cool, rainy weather was expected to reduce the number of voters casting ballot’s in the provincial election that day. In Montreal, slogan-chanting youths ran wild, as the annual St. Jean Baptiste Day parade became a scene of nationalist action for a second straight year. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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