Good morning!
Your forecast: Not that we want to immediately push you to another website, but here’s a fun exercise. Do a Google search for Environment Canada Winnipeg and then click on the first hit that comes up. It’s the seven-day forecast for the city. Check out that perfect row of little sunshine symbols… so awesome. That’s the kind of August week we’ve been waiting for. Expect a bright, sunny day and a high of 26 C today. Daytime temperatures the rest of the week range from 26 C to 33 C with a whole lot of blue sky.
In case you missed it
CPHamilton Tiger-Cats’ Terrence Toliver, centre, gets some yards while being tackled by Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Khalil Bass, bottom, during the second half of CFL football action in Hamilton, Ont., on Sunday. (Peter Power / The Canadian Press)
Bombers take another beating: It wasn’t much fun watching quarterback Drew Willy lying on the field in excruciating pain late Sunday afternoon at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton. That was a telling snapshot of a horrible game for Winnipeg’s CFL club as the Blue Bombers fell behind 21-0 after just eight minutes into the contest and eventually lost 38-8 to the Tiger-Cats. Winnipeg is now 3-4 and will host the Toronto Argos on Friday night. READ MORE
City bites reptile show owner: The man they call Safari Jeff, an educational entertainer who has about a dozen reptiles in his act, finished up shows at Kildonan Place this weekend and had to pay a $1,500 fine to the City of Winnipeg because some of his creatures are banned in the city. By-law enforcement officers gave him 72 hours to remove the reptiles, such as an eight-year-old Cuban rock iguana, from the city. READ MORE
Up next
JOHN WOODS / The Canadian Press filesA boy from the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sits on a bridge over a channel in a file photo.
Smith supports road to Shoal Lake: Former Conversative MP Joy Smith is holding a press conference 11 a.m. today at her offices at McIvor Mall on Henderson Highway to announce she is supporting the campaign to get a road to Shoal Lake. The move puts her at odds with her party in the midst of a federal election. She will be the first Manitoba Conservative to publicly side with the isolated First Nation, which has been under a boil-water advisory for nearly 20 years even though it’s the source of Winnipeg’s excellent drinking water. Local musician Steve Bell is one of the organizers of a petition and a coalition called churches for freedom road. READ MORE
WSD trustees to meet in private: Winnipeg School Division trustees hold an emergency board meeting behind closed doors today to figure out how they can comply with 22 recommendations to “clean up their act” and avoid being thrown out of office on New Year’s Eve. Investigator-educator John Wiens filed a scathing report earlier this month on governance in WSD, advising provincial education minister James Allum he should fire the “out of control” WSD school board Dec. 31 unless it starts functioning properly and improves transparency. Allum has given the WSD until the end of the month to chart out how it will implement the recommendations by year’s end.
Around the water cooler
.jpg?w=560)
Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free PressThe line went all the way around the block for the casting call at Fairmont Sunday for a movie starring Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton and Britt Robertson. 150809 August 09, 2015 MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Winnipeggers eye shot at Hollywood: Thousands attended a large casting call for extras for a new movie to be shot in Manitoba, featuring a big-time star. The flick A Dog’s Purpose needs about 2,000 extras to share the screen with actor Dennis Quaid. Shooting starts in Virden on Aug. 17 for three weeks and then moves to Winnipeg for another month. READ MORE
Too many crashes at intersection: Winnipeg siblings Joel and Megan Soroko both wrecked their vehicles in separate collisions at a North Kildonan intersection. The crashes, eight years apart, happened at Headmaster Row and Raleigh Street. They say it’s a dangerous spot and the city needs to step in. The intersection is a two-way stop. Drivers heading north and south on Raleigh must stop, while motorists on Headmaster have the right of way. READ MORE
Trending now
#Ferguson: On the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, vigils were disturbed as the Missouri city erupted into violence again late Sunday night. Protesters threw bottles and rocks at police, and police critically injured a man they say unleashed a “remarkable amount of gunfire” at them.
Frank Gifford: NFL legend Frank Gifford died at the age of 84 on Sunday of natural causes. The hall-of-famer and sportscaster was husband to TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford, who tweeted yesterday: “Deeply grateful to all 4 ur outpouring of grace. We r steadfast in our faith & finding comfort in knowing where Frank is. Phillippians 4:13.”
On this date
On August 10, 2005: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that more than 2.5 million acres of Manitoba farmland that had not been cultivated due to spring flooding was now at risk of turning to dust after week of dry, hot weather. Kayaker Megan Hunter won Manitoba’s first medal (bronze) at the Canada Games in Regina. Aborignal leaders were backed by the country’s premiers on their ten-year goal of defeating poverty. North Dakota officials met with Manitoban officials in Selkirk over the Devil’s Lake outlet that would let its water flow into Manitoba.
|
