Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h this afternoon. High 21 C. Humidex 25. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg author (and your friendly neighbourhood Head Start writer) David Jón Fuller launches his debut novel tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Venue 13 — published by Ravenstone, an imprint of Winnipeg’s Turnstone Press — sees an actor keen on converting a dilapidated building into a venue for a summer theatre festival — but, unbeknownst to him, said venue is haunted.
Today’s must-read
Set back from Academy Road, in Winnipeg’s affluent River Heights neighbourhood, is a two-storey building that was once known as the Julia Clark School.
In the late 1950s, the building was repurposed as the Assiniboia Residential School, initially run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
Now home to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, children are still central to the story of this 108-year-old schoolhouse, but the mission has flipped.
Where once loneliness and isolation were inflicted on First Nations children, the goal now is to protect children, emotionally and physically. And, specifically, to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on the Internet. Marsha McLeod has the story.
The stairwell inside the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
An orphaned and disabled lynx has found a new home at Assiniboine Park Zoo.
Premier Wab Kinew was on hand Wednesday morning to welcome Lumi the lynx and announce a $650,000 grant for the wildlife rehabilitation centre that rescued it.
Lumi was helped by the Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre as a baby last year after its mother was killed in a dog attack. Lumi entered its public enclosure at the zoo for the first time Wednesday after receiving medical treatment at its health centre since March. Erik Pindera has more here.
Lumi the lynx in her enclosure at the Assiniboine Park Zoo (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On June 4, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Winnipeg police commission admitted police had fingerprinted a man in error because they did not know the provisions of the new criminal code. Federal Progressive Conservative leader John Diefenbaker criticized the Liberals for sending out a letter to armed services personnel urging them to vote Liberal, saying the PCs had recieved no list of voters in the forces; but the chief electoral officer contradicted Diefenbaker, saying all four main federal parties had received such lists.
Today’s front page
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