Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud witha 30 per cent chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Expected high is 26 C and a low of 17, with a humidex of 31 and UV index of 9 or very high.
What’s happening today
The battle against hundreds of wildfires continues, as almost every jurisdiction in Canada remains under either heat or air quality warnings from the federal government. The Canadian Press reports.
A man walks to work wearing a mask near Parliament Hill, Wednesday, in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
A 25-year-old suspect who was arrested after two Winnipeg police officers were seriously injured in a crash with a stolen pickup truck Wednesday was on bail with driving restrictions. The Interlake man, who was released May 23, was prohibited from being in the driver’s seat of a vehicle without the owner’s consent, after being charged with fleeing police and other offences north of Winnipeg earlier this spring, according to a source and court records. Chris Kitching has the story.
Winnipeg Police Service investigators at the scene of a vehicle collision involving a police car at Main Street and Belmont Avenue. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Against all odds, the remaining handful of Mexico’s endangered vaquita porpoises are holding on in their only habitat in the Gulf of California, according to a new research expedition report released Wednesday. The Associated Press reports.
A vaquita marina swims in the Biosphere Reserve of the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta, in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society via The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 8, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported mayor Stephen Juba was in hospital with multiple injuries after he fell from a horse. The U.S. government reversed its stance to allow the export of grain handling equipment to Norwegian tankers hauling Canadian grain to Communist China. The Winnipeg police board agreed to lead a movement to have the sale of firecrackers restricted in Manitoba. The Toronto owners of Brandon Packers lost an attempt to have their conspiracy trial moved from Brandon to Winnipeg, and Manitoba lawyers were remonstrated for speaking to the press. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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