Your forecast
Clearing early this morning. Wind becoming south at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 25 C. Humidex 28. UV index 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Edmonton Elks at Princess Auto Stadium at 7:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A city task force set up to triage people who need help to overcome hoarding has been constrained by privacy concerns and staff diversions to other jobs.
The hoarding and collecting behaviours task force is making fewer referrals. It won’t gain the capacity to respond to hoarding concerns from the public, something it originally aimed to provide but has not done so far, says a new Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service report.
“There is not enough funding for city staff to assess and review hoarding referrals (from the public) appropriately at current funding levels,” the report notes. Joyanne Pursaga reports.
On the bright side
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight.
The crew of four will spend two weeks at the orbiting lab, performing dozens of experiments. They launched Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Associated Press reports.
SpaceX Falcon 9 crew: Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Space Research Organization, from left, Tibor Kapu of Hungary, commander Peggy Whitson, and Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland. (Terry Renna / The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 26, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported prime minister Joe Clark said Canada’s interests must be served before approving Japanese access to Alberta’s oil sands. An Elmwood resident went to city hall after receiving a water bill for $233. Manitoba officials said only a major influx of visitors would save the province from another record low year for tourism, owing to flooding and bad road conditions in the Red River Valley.
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