Your forecast
Sunny, with wind from southwest at 20 km/h becoming west 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 22 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Calgary Stampeders in today’s pre-season finale at Princess Auto Stadium (7:30 p.m. kickoff). Taylor Allen has five storylines to watch for in tonight’s game.
Quarterback Terry Wilson Jr. would appear to have the inside track on the Bombers’ third QB spot. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
The fourth annual Gorge Festival, hosted by Synonym Art Consultation, continues as Gorge and Cluster Festival team up for Let’s Have a Kiki, a multifaceted event featuring discussions about drag history, a community ball, dance battles and catwalk competitions. The fun runs from 7 to 11 p.m. in The Forks event space and wraps with an audio-visual set by dj Konjo. Come dolled up in your best Queer Future-themed attire for a chance to win the title of Best Dressed Spectator. Tickets are $20 plus fees at Eventbrite.
Judging for the third annual Prairie Beer Awards is underway in Winnipeg at Oxus Brewing Co., and the public is invited to watch local and area brewers scoop up their hardware on Friday at the Grant Park location of Fionns (1180 Grant Ave.). Tickets for the event, which gets underway at 6 p.m., are $20 plus fees and include an appetizer, a drink and live music to follow the awards. Visit wfp.to/ysz to reserve a spot.
Nahlah Ayed launches her new book, The War We Won Apart, at McNally Robinson Booksellers‘ Grant Park location, starting at 7 p.m.
Nahlah Ayed spent five years researching and writing her book The War We Won Apart. (Jet Belgraver photo)
Today’s must-read
Daryl Kines started to get nervous when Parks Canada made the decision to ban boats on Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park this summer.
Kines is president of the Sandy Lake Water Protection Working Group, which focuses on protecting the small, L-shaped lake about 20 kilometres south of the park. He fears the ban, announced earlier this month, will lead to more boats on their lake.
“The march of aquatic invasive species is coming closer to where I live,” he said in an interview. “It’s very concerning.”
The boat ban, sparked by the discovery of live zebra mussels in Clear Lake last November, triggered widespread pushback — from area cottagers to the premier — who worry it will adversely impact the tourism-driven region. Julia-Simone Rutgers has the story.
Manitoba’s zebra mussel monitoring program started in 2011. (Max Faulkner/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT)
On the bright side
Meet Ace-Liam Ankrah, a Ghana toddler who has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist.
His mother, Chantelle Kukua Eghan, says it all started by accident when her son, who at the time was 6 months old, discovered her acrylic paints.
Eghan, an artist and founder of Arts and Cocktails Studio, a bar that that offers painting lessons in Ghana’s capital, Accra, said she was looking for a way to keep her boy busy while working on her own paintings. The Associated Press reports.
Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah, who will turn two in July, shows off his paint tubes at his mother’s art gallery in Accra, Ghana, Monday. (Misper Apawu / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On May 31, 1974: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Geneva, Syria and Israel signed a ceasefire agreement for the ongoing conflict in the Golan Heights and which committed them to move toward a lasting peace settlement. In Winnipeg, the former director of a major ticket seller for the Manitoba Golden Sweepstakes denied several alleged irregularities in the agency’s operations. During question period, premier Ed Schreyer said he had first heard of the allegations at the ticket agency the previous autumn, but denied there had been any cover-up. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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