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Your forecast: If you picked this week as vacation time, well done, as Environment Canada is projecting four terrific days of sunshine and warm temperatures. Expect a windy day today and a high of 22 C, while the highs Tuesday and Wednesday are 24 C and 23 C, respectively. The mercury could hit 27 C on Thursday. We’ve got bad news for everybody working for the weekend, though. The long-range forecast is calling for rain Friday through Sunday in Winnipeg and most areas of cottage country.
In case you missed it
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe 2016 Manitoba Marathon women’s winner Heather Magill crosses the finish line.
Back-to-back wins: Winning the Manitoba Marathon women’s event was so nice that Heather Magill did it twice. On a humid Sunday morning, the Calgary native, who now lives in Grand Forks, N.D., won her second straight 26.2-mile Manitoba Marathon title, posting a time of two hours, 55 minutes and 55 seconds. Meanwhile, Winnipeg runner Bradley Keefe locked up his first-ever men’s marathon crown, crossing the finish line with a time of 2:43:32. He had competed 12 times before, finishing as the runner-up on two occasions and finishing third three other times. READ MORE
Falk urged to attend parade: Organizers behind the St. Pierre-Jolys Frog Follies are calling out MP Ted Falk for using their event as a reason to skip Steinbach’s inaugural Pride Parade. Frog Follies president Marie-Christine Bruce said she was shocked Falk, the Conservative MP for Provencher, cited a previous commitment to attend the frog jumping festival for not being able to attend the July 9 parade. “This is the first Pride event (for Steinbach). It is historic and important,” she told the Free Press Sunday. “It is 2016. Don’t hide your feelings behind a prior commitment.” READ MORE
Brooks, Yearwood leave mark: They performed four near sold-out shows at MTS Centre over the weekend — entertaining more than 50,000 fans — but country music power couple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood didn’t just have an impact on stage. Brooks spent some time Saturday afternoon playing ball hockey at the Notre Dame Arena with kids sponsored by city service clubs. He makes appearances like that in every city he performs as part of ProCamps Worldwide, a sports charity that hosts day camps for underprivileged kids. “I don’t know whether it’s giving back,” Brooks said about his support for the camps. “I’m the guy who walks out getting the most out of here.” READ MORE
Up next
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe Dirty Catfish Brass Band played at the Winnipeg Jazz Festival Sunday.
All that jazz: The Winnipeg Jazz Festival continues tonight and all this week in venues within the Exchange District. Check out all the details at www.jazzwinnipeg.com. READ MORE
In the pink: The annual Pink Ribbon Ladies Golf Classic is being held today at the Niakwa Country Club. The event is a fundraiser for the fight against breast cancer and gynecological cancer. It’s the 20th year for Manitoba’s largest women-only golf tournament.
Around the water cooler
JOHN G. MABLANGO / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSCleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, right, shoots against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green during the second half of Game 7 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., Sunday, June 19, 2016. The Cavaliers won 93-89.
James keeps his word: LeBron James promised he’d deliver an NBA championship to his home state of Ohio, and the big man delivered. James scored 27 points, collected 11 rebounds and added 11 assists Sunday night to guide the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 93-89 victory over the host Golden State Warriors in Game 7 of the championship series. Cleveland came back from a 3-1 deficit in the series to beat the Warriors, who won a remarkable 73 games during the regular season. READ MORE
Beefing up CPP: Canada’s finance ministers are meeting in Vancouver today, where they’ll try to hammer out a preliminary agreement on expanding the Canada Pension Plan. Any improvements to the CPP will come at a cost. As benefits increase, so potentially will the premiums deducted from workers’ paycheques. READ MORE
Pause BRT plan: With the recent debate over the city’s efforts to complete the southwest transit corridor, writes Gregory Mason, now is a good time to question whether a rapid-transit plan that assumes a central-hub-and-spoke conceptualization of the city is accurate or desirable. READ MORE
Trending now
‘Game of Thrones’ creator George R. R. Martin
#GameofThrones: Did you SEE that episode? Did you? Can you believe they did that? I can’t. Can’t wait to see what happens in the next GoT.(…This has been your spoiler-free reaction to the last night’s episode of Game of Thrones.)
#MMVAs: If you weren’t watching Game of Thrones, you were probably tuned in to the Much Music Video Awards, where Drake, The Strumbellas, Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber were among the winners. Supermodel Gigi Hadid was host for the star-studded evening. READ MORE
On this date
On June 20, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that husband and wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Ossining, NY, having been convicted of selling atomic bomb secrets to Soviet Russia. In Canada, federal Progressive Conservative leader George Drew opened his election campaign by promising Canadians tax reductions of half a billion dollars. Winnipeg looked to beat the previous record for construction activity in a single year, set in 1912; permits were issued for the construction of 1,753 new buildings with an estimated cost of $9,377,200.
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