Good morning!
Your forecast: It might be time to haul the window air conditioner back down to the basement. It will be beautiful and sunny but still nippy this morning, with a high of 22 C. The mercury will rise slightly throughout the rest of the week, and Friday will be the very best day of the week (as it always is!) when the temperature hits 25 C. That’s a prelude to a somewhat miserable-looking weekend, but let’s cross our fingers and hope that changes.
In case you missed it
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThelma Favel (left) at the Sagkeeng First Nation grave site where her great niece Tina Fontaine is laid to rest.
Goodbye to Tina: Family, friends and indigenous leaders gathered in Sagkeeng First Nation to mourn 15-year-old Tina Fontaine on Monday, unveiling a headstone that helped give her family closure. It’s one year since the teen’s body was found in the Red River, her death sparking a new debate about violence against indigenous women. “It had to take her to die to open up everyone’s eyes,” Tina’s aunt, Thelma Favel, said Monday at the memorial. READ MORE
Deadly drug: Fentanyl overdoses have made headlines in other cities. Now, Winnipeg may have its first fatality. The prescription painkiller, 100-times more powerful than heroin, may be responsible for the death of a city man Friday. Police are waiting for lab tests to confirm, but aren’t waiting to raise the alarm about the drug. READ MORE
Ousted art: Dozens of city artists lost their studio and living space when the city shuttered an Exchange District warehouse for numerous fire code violations Monday. Staff from the Frame Arts Warehouse on Ross Avenue said they were trying to get up to code, but the city inspectors cracked down. READ MORE
Up next
Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free PressMayor Brian Bowman (centre) with Elder Mae Louise Campbell (left ).
After Maclean’s: Seven months after Winnipeg was tagged the most racist city in Canada, Mayor Brian Bowman will today announce details of his national anti-racism summit slated for next month at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
World’s largest touring tent: Drivers will do a double-take today near the intersection of Sterling Lyon Parkway and Kenaston Boulevard when they see workers erecting the world’s largest touring tent, which stands 38 meters tall and covers a surface as large as a football field. The mammoth tent will house a touring show called Odysseo, which features 65 horses and 45 riders, acrobats, dancers and musicians. The show opens Sept. 10.
Farming, old-school: A press conference today at 11 a.m. at the Red River Exhibition grounds will feature a century-old steam traction engine and a threshing demonstration. The display will promote a world record-breaking event to raise awareness about global hunger. On July 31, 2016, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and the Manitoba Agricultural Museum will attempt to create the largest ever pioneer harvesting bee with up to 100 threshing machines operating simultaneously.
Around the water cooler
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSRed River College’s Board of Governors has named Paul Vogt as the institution’s fifth president and CEO effective Aug. 17.
Open book: Red River College’s new president, Paul Vogt, did something unusual Monday. He emailed copies of his contract to reporters and to every college employee. Now, we all know former premier Gary Doer’s right-hand-man gets six weeks vacation and has to pay for scramble parking on campus like any schlubb. We also know the secretive, scandal plagued-days of Red River’s former president may be over. READ MORE
Blue Jays bandwagon: More Winnipeggers than usual have been spotted wearing Toronto Blue Jays jerseys, T-shirts and caps in recent weeks. And their Jays merchandise does not appear well-aged. The recent spike in Jays paraphernalia is a sign Winnipeg has joined the national interest in Canada’s only Major League Baseball team as the Jays battle with the Yankees for first place in the East Division of the American League. The Jays are in Philadelphia today to play the Phillies at 6:05 p.m. CDT.
Trending now
#BachelorInParadise: There was a double-cross. There was secret camera footage. There was canoodling. The Twitterverse turned on Joe and his ugly necklace. You don’t really need to know much more about this week’s episode of television’s dumbest dating show.
Kathie Lee Gifford: The popular television host returned to the Today Show on Monday for the first time since the death of her husband, sports commentator Frank Gifford. He died Aug. 9 at age 84 of natural causes.
On this date
On August 18, 1975: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the city began mosquito-fogging operations with malathion to combat a major outbreak of equine encephalitis (affecting 40 horses in the province), using a DC-6 and helicopters. Kidnapped whiskey heir Samuel Bronfman II was kept safe at his mother’s mansion in New York, while two suspects were kept in custody and the $2.3 million ransom money was recovered. Five teens died in a car crash near Dauphin following a police chase near Dauphin. The search for former union boss James Riddle Hoffa was believed hopeless by police.
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