What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSBrian Bowman speaks at a Pride rally on Sunday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
State of the city speech: Mayor Brian Bowman will give his final state of the city address at a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce luncheon this afternoon.
Road work on Perimeter: Construction work will begin on the south Perimeter Highway at Provincial Road 330. The work — which is expected to be completed by July 15 — will require lane closures in both directions, and speeds will be reduced to 60 km/h in the work zone. Motorists should expect delays, the provincial government said. READ MORE
Plowed into pedestrians: At least one person is dead and eight injured after a man drove a small car into pedestrians in a Berlin shopping district. Police are trying to determine whether the driver hit the people deliberately. READ MORE
Summit set to begin: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas. He is set to discuss environmental priorities with his Barbados counterpart and will later attend a meeting with Latin American and Caribbean leaders to discuss climate change, democratic values and gender equality. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Flooding and weather
Morris was forced to close its dikes last month due to flooding. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
‘Slowly returning to normal’: Highway 75 is fully open for the first time since May 2, but Morris residents are still feeling the impact of its closure and flooding. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
Your daytime forecast: Sunny, with a mix of sun and cloud beginning in the late afternoon, a high of 23 C and wind from the northwest at 10 km/h increasing to 20 km/h later this morning.
In case you missed it
Winnipeg Police Service Chief Danny Smyth at a news conference in November. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
‘Serious problems persist’: The police union has accused the city’s chief of working to extend his contract without public scrutiny amid high crime and low morale. “The majority of our membership has lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead,” Winnipeg Police Association president Moe Sabourin said of Danny Smyth. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Deadly derailment: At least 21 people were killed and 47 injured when a train traveling through Iran struck an excavator and derailed. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Waltons to buy Broncos: The heirs to the Walmart fortune, who are the richest family in the U.S., have won the bidding to buy the NFL’s Denver Broncos in the most expensive deal for a sports franchise in history. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
‘Tremendous amount of force’: A Winnipeg woman whose 19-year-old son is on trial for her 2019 murder was bludgeoned so forcefully that a pathologist likened her injuries to those suffered in a high-speed automobile crash. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 8, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that after the D-Day landing, the Allied Expeditionary Force captured Bayeux and Caen while holding the Le Havre area, and a steady stream of reinforcements by sea and air strengthened the massive spearhead. Naval guns fired on camouflaged German troops advancing through a forested area near the coast, destroying their position. The number of Canadian troops involved in the co-ordinated invasion of Nazi-held France remained secret. READ MORE
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