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Sunny with a mix of sun and cloud late this afternoon with a 30 per cent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm late this afternoon. Hazy. Wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 24 C. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
A hearing at city hall that began Monday morning continues today, to consider sweeping changes meant to attract more homes to many Winnipeg lots. The changes would allow up to four housing units to be built on a single lot in most residential areas, and permit fourplexes up to 12 metres tall within 800 metres of high-frequency transit stops. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
An example of a new fourplex infill development in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. (Brent Bellamy photo)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said the nation-building projects discussed by the premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday present a “generational opportunity for Canadians,” especially those who live in poorer communities.
Provincial and territorial leaders sat down with Carney in Saskatoon and each premier was armed with wish lists of major projects they hope the federal government will deem to be in the national interest, then fast-track for approval.
“The point is to build the certainty, the stability and the ambition that builders need to catalyze enormous investment — investment to make Canada into an energy superpower,” Carney said at the closing news conference. Carol Sanders and The Canadian Press have more here.
Premier Wab Kinew speaks to media prior to the First Minister’s Meeting in Saskatoon on Monday. (Liam Richards / The Canadian Press)
On the bright side
Stephanie Kersey, a Winnipeg-based radio DJ and personal support worker with a professional background in addictions and homelessness, uses her CKUW 95.9 FM program Rez Vibe Connections (which runs from 4 to 6 p.m. Fridays) to take song cues from an isolated population: the incarcerated.
“The show’s for everyone, and I do get callers from all cultures and levels of society. But right now, the jails are the main focus. And people are being gracious enough to accept that,” she says. “And just talking to (inmates) a few minutes, showing compassion, gets them excited and brightens their light.”
Kersey says calls are now coming in from most of Manitoba’s correctional centres, since the show’s picked up steam in the past few months. Conrad Sweatman has more here.
Rez Vibe Connections host Stephanie Kersey, 43, shows an image of her show’s logo on her cellphone inside the CKUW DJ booth at the University of Winnipeg. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On this date
On June 3, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a missed baseball led to the discovery most of $15,000 worth of lost jewelry that had been left in a taxi on May 24 by Mlle. Alice Beuriot of Paris, France, while en route from Whittier Park racetrack to the Fort Garry Hotel. Lying in the grass on the riverbank at the foot of Spence Street, Beuriot’s purse was found by Norman Chambers while searching for a ball he and his girlfirend had been playing catch with. Elsewhere, the latest expedition attempting to scale Mt. Everest was feared doomed to failure after Alipore observatory reported a heavy monsoon raging in the Everest region. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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