Your forecast
Showers ending this morning then mainly cloudy. Showers with thunderstorms beginning this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm early this morning. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light this morning. High 22 C. Humidex 28. UV index 7 or high.
At least two tornadoes touched down in Manitoba Tuesday as an extreme weather system belted the southern region.
The severe thunderstorm brought with it strong winds, rain, hail and the twisters, said Environment Canada meteorologist Dave Carlsen. Morgan Modjeski has more here.
What’s happening today
📖 McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location plays host to German-based author Elina Penner, who launches her novel Nightberries tonight at 7 p.m. at an event where she’ll be joined by Andrew Unger of The Unger Review (formerly The Daily Bonnet).
Today’s must-read
With opioid-related emergencies overtaking alcohol-related calls for service in Winnipeg, the province is investing more than $1 million to ease pressure on front-line responders and improve overdose care.
The funding includes $802,000 for a three-month pilot project that will see a 24-7, two-person paramedic team respond to overdose calls in high-demand areas, including the downtown core, where many of the city’s shelters and support agencies are located. The pilot will start this month, the province said.
The province will also spend $150,000 on approximately 20 oxygen delivery devices to be managed by Main Street Project, which help when overdoses don’t respond to naloxone. Another $100,000 will be given to provide first aid and overdose response training for workers through St. John’s Ambulance and Manitoba Harm Reduction Network. Scott Billeck has the story.
(John Woods / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Adam Vigfusson has always considered himself a student of the game.
Now, the 20-year-old Gimli product will get the chance to combine his passions for hockey and higher education as he heads to St. Cloud State University to study and suit up for the Huskies this fall.
“It came together really quickly,” Vigfusson told the Free Press on Tuesday. “My life has always been kind of around school first and hockey second. For me, to get this opportunity now, I can’t waste it.” Mike McIntyre has more here.
Gimli’s Adam Vigfusson led the Niverville Nighthawks to a Turnbull Cup title in April before the captain and the club swept their way to a Centennial Cup title in May. (Cassidy Dankochik / Carillon files)
On this date
On June 3, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Crown lawyer declared to the Manitoba board of appeal that he had never known anyone to have been reformed in provincial jail, decrying the conditions as he argued against a two-and-a-half-year sentence in an appeal for a client. A coroner’s jury found a 14-year-old girl’s death in the care of an 18-year-old man was due to negligence.
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