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A mix of sun and cloud with a high of 26 C and a low of 12 C.
What’s happening today
Statistics Canada will release its labour force survey for May this morning.
The Blue Bombers host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Investors Group Field, starting at 7:30 p.m. Taylor Allen has a story about key numbers related to this year’s season.
(John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
The 2023 edition of Winnipeg’s Cluster Festival — an annual celebration of experimental music and multimedia art — wraps up this weekend with three days of live performances. On Friday, Christine Fellows and Matt Foster take the stage for a double bill at the West End Cultural Centre (586 Ellice Ave.). For more information, visit clusterfestival.com.
Today’s must-read
A 25-year-old man charged in a crash that seriously injured two Winnipeg police officers has been struggling with meth addiction and desperately needs treatment, his mother told the Free Press. Chris Kitching and Dean Pritchard have the story.
McKae Ledingham was on bail when he was allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen Lincoln Mark LT pickup truck that collided with a police cruiser at Main Street and Belmont Avenue at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Two giant inflatable ducks made a splash in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor today, marking the return of a pop-art project that sparked a frenzy in the city a decade ago. The Associated Press reports.
Members of the public photograph an art installation called “Double Ducks” by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. (Louise Delmotte / The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 9, 1971: The Winnipeg Free Press reported St. Boniface constituents, mostly New Democrats, questioned Larry Desjardins’ right to represent them in the provincial legislature as a member of the NDP; he had only formally joined a party a month earlier, having previously been a Liberal-Democrat. In Ottawa, the federal agriculture minister, in light of depressed prices received by producers in Manitoba and Ontario, announced a purchase program to stabilize egg prices. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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