Your forecast
Sunny skies, becoming a mix of sun and cloud around noon, with a high of 28 C and a low of 13 C.
What’s happening today
Statistics Canada will release its report this morning on how the economy fared in April when it releases its reading of gross domestic product for the month.
The Bank of Canada will release its business outlook survey and its Canadian survey of consumer expectations.
Today’s must-read
Court of King’s Bench Justice Sandra Zinchuk ruled there was reasonable doubt Jack Winters, 28, was behind the wheel during an August 2019 collision that killed Oksana Dutchyshen, 6, and Quinn Dutchyshen, 4, at an intersection outside Dauphin. Tyler Searle has the story.
Gaylene Dutchyshen embraces her son, Justin Dutchyshen, before the decision hearing at the Dauphin courthouse. (Tyler Searle / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On June 30, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, prime minister Lester Pearson insisted the flag debate be completed and the new Canadian flag be adopted before Parliament got its summer recess. Manitoba’s parochial school students would recived free text books and free rides in public school buses under the government’s proposed shared-services plan. In the Congo, the resignation of prime minister Cyrille Adoula’s government was accepted, said president Joseph Kasavubu. Bernard Frank, a New You management consultant for clothing manufacturers, said during a visit to Winnipeg, that the new topless swimming suit for women was here to stay. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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