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Medal tally: Canada closed the Olympic Games in Rio with 22 medals — four gold, three silver and 15 bronze. “These were marvelous games in the ‘marvelous city,’” International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach pronounced at the close of the 16-day spectacle. READ MORE
Your forecast: Sunny and hot. A beach day. There probably won’t be many more like them this summer. Clear skies and a high of 30 C today. Tonight it will become partly cloudy. The low will be 15. On Tuesday, expect a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers late in the afternoon and a risk of a thunderstorm. The high will be 27.
In case you missed it
Jean-Baptiste Ajua in his University of Manitoba Bisons track and field uniform.Supplied / Winnipeg Free Press
Birds Hill drowning: The young man who drowned Saturday at Birds Hill Provincial Park was a high school track star and a proud new Canadian. Jean-Baptiste Ajua, 22, a childhood refugee from Rwanda, graduated from Elmwood High School and was one of five top recruits by the U of M track team. READ MORE
Could set precedent: Some residential-school survivors seeking compensation for sexual abuse were wrongly required to try to prove their abusers’ motive, Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench has ruled. The recent decision from Justice James Edmond could set a precedent for how residential-school compensation claims are settled, affecting “at least dozens, possibly hundreds” of residential-school survivors, a Winnipeg lawyer says. READ MORE
Police car bashed: A Winnipeg man faces several charges after one of several vehicles he stole Saturday slammed into a police car. A 29-year-old Winnipeg man faces charges including robbery, assaulting a peace officer, break and enter, mischief, impaired driving and driving without a licence. READ MORE
Up next
Up next: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers wrap up a two-day cabinet retreat in Sudbury, Ont. today with a community barbecue expected to attract as many as 2,000 people. The retreat is being held at Laurentian University in Sudbury, where the ministers are bunking together in student dorms. They’ve been focusing on the agenda for what promises to be a gruelling fall.
Around the water cooler
John Woods / THE CANADIAN PRESSTragically Hip fans gather in Winnipeg’s Old Market Square.
The last scream: Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie asked us all to bear his pain, says Free Press writer Melissa Martin. READ MORE
Philpott’s folly: Health Minister Jane Philpott is responsible for the political fallout from her questionable use of an expensive limo service operated by a Liberal party backer to ferry her around, Dan Lett says. READ MORE
Brain injuries: Dennis Guile, 67, has struggled with his memory, emotions and relationships since sustaining an injury during a trucking collision 17 years ago. Experts say there can be severe symptoms from even a mild brain injury. And ongoing support is crucial for brain-injury survivors. READ MORE
Trending now
Fred Thornhill / THE CANADIAN PRESSFans gather on Bolton Street in Bobcaygeon, Ont., to watch The Tragically Hip’s final concert on video screens in Kingston on Saturday.
#TheHip: The hashtag for The Tragically Hip is still trending, two days after the final concert of the band’s summer tour and its entire career with lead singer Gord Downie, who has terminal brain cancer.
#RaiseABandsTemperature: Check out these hot, hotter, hottest music acts: Heatwood Mac, Simply Redder, Thermite Be Giants and The Alan Arsons Project.
On this date
On Aug. 22, 1930: Wheat pool heads and provincial premiers met in Regina to discuss the creation of a single-desk wheat board for the marketing of the 1930 crop. In Chicago, a coroner’s inquest revealed that a woman gave careful attention to her makeup, hair and dress before drinking a bottle of poison in a hotel room, and that her reason for committing suicide was disappointment in love with an English nobleman. The ocean liner “Empress of Japan,” heading for Vancouver, was expected to break all speed records for crossing the Pacific. READ MORE
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