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Your forecast: Bottle this one up, folks. It’s going to be a near-perfect summer day in southern Manitoba. Environment Canada is calling for plenty of sunshine and a daytime high of 25 C. Open up those windows and let the air in tonight, as the mercury falls to a refreshing 14 C. On Wednesday, expect more of the same, with blue sky and a high of 28 C. There’s rain around the corner for Thursday and Friday, but don’t let that forecast make you a wet blanket.
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WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFire Fighters found a body at the scene of a one and a half storey house fire in the 600 block of Pritchard Ave. near McKenzie St.
Body inside burned-out home: Initial reports had two family pets dying in a house fire in the 600 block of Pritchard Avenue, early Monday morning. But late in the day, a body was removed from the one-and-a-half-storey home, located near the corner of McKenzie Street. The fire is considered suspicious and the Winnipeg Police Service homicide unit was called in to investigate. A spokesman said the fire started on the main floor just after 5:30 a.m. and spread to the attic.
Rampage leads to long pursuit: Winnipeg police joined RCMP in pursuit of a large, white delivery truck down the Trans-Canada Highway on Monday afternoon, finally stopping the vehicle and arresting one man around 1:15 p.m. just past Portage la Prairie. The man allegedly used the truck about two hours before to smash up five police cars that were parked just outside police headquarters on Princess Street. It’s believed the suspect, a man in his 20s, had been slapped with a ticket for distracted driving earlier in the day, possibly prompting the extreme case of road rage.
Show has plenty of horse sense: They’re erecting the big top at the corner of Kenaston Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway to house Odysseo, the largest touring show in the world. Created by Cirque du Soleil co-founder Normand Latourelle, the show features 65 horses and 45 riders, acrobats, dancers and musicians. It begins Sept. 10 and will be in Winnipeg for a multiple-show run on a stage twice the size of a hockey rink, held under a 38-metre-tall white tent. Tickets go on sale Thursday and range in price from $49.50 to $129.50; they can be purchased at www.cavalia.net or Ticketmaster. READ MORE
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WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSEric Johnson
Round 2 tees off at Manitoba Amateur: Eric Johnson of Breezy Bend fired a two-under 70 on Monday and holds a two-stroke lead heading into the second round of the Manitoba Amateur Golf Championship at Bridges Golf Course. He’s one of 120 players in the field and tees off at 1:06 p.m. today. Players begin heading out at 8 a.m.
Helping West Broadway stay green: Take Pride Winnipeg’s Green Wave will help the West Broadway Community Organization with its vegetable gardening and composting today. The work takes place today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Spirit Park, 200 Young St.
Getting their house in order: The Winnipeg School Division trustees are holding an emergency meeting Aug. 10 — behind closed doors – to deal with the recommendations from a scathing report that criticized, among other things, the trustees’ lack of transparency and practice of meeting in camera. If the trustees fail to act on the 22 recommendations, they could be replaced.
Around the water cooler
Elise Amendola / The Associated Press Files
Prices jump at Winnipeg pumps: If you fuelled up your vehicle on the way home from work Monday, consider yourself lucky. Gas prices at many service stations in and around the city jumped nine cents overnight to 111.9 cents a litre, including most Petro-Can, Esso, Domo and Husky outlets.
Quite an art career: Xiao Yuan, former chief librarian at a Chinese university, admitted to stealing more than 140 fine artworks in a gallery under his watch and replacing them fakes that he painted himself. He did it for two years, also selling the originals at auction for more than $6 million. Xiao was nonplussed to see someone else had started replacing his fakes with their own: “I realized someone else had replaced my paintings with their own because I could clearly discern that their works were terribly bad.”
Christmas in July for families: The Harper government doled out almost $3 billion in child benefit payments Monday but is expected to claw back almost $340 million from families at tax time next April. And that estimate doesn’t even factor in provincial taxes, which are likely to account for about $160 million more, based on calculations by The Canadian Press. The money is coming from the $2.98 billion handed out to families in the form of increased universal child care benefits. Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre called it “Christmas in July” for Canadian families. The enhanced benefit payments arrived on Monday, with the value rising to $160 from $100 for every child in Canada under age six, and a new $60 per month payment for every child age six to 17.
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Matt Dunham / The Associated PressRussian tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner, left, speaks next to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking during a press conference in London.
#StephenHawking: The famed physicist along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced Monday a $100 million project, Breakthrough Listen, to search for intelligent life on other planets.
#DemiMoore: A man was found dead in a pool at Demi Moore’s Beverly Hills home early Sunday morning, Los Angeles police reported. The 21-year-old victim was found floating in the deep end. Moore was out of the country at the time, and it’s not clear who had thrown a late-night party Saturday.
On this date
On July 21, 1966, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that Western Canada would see an excellent wheat crop, on the order of between 650 to 700 million bushels. Ed Dow, Liberal candidate in Turtle Mountain, won the seat by a margin of just seven votes over Conservative rival Peter McDonald. The body of a 16-year-old north Winnipeg youth was pulled from the Red River, and a 61-year-old man was convicted of supplying the youth with alcohol on July 16.
The Winnipeg Free Press, July 21, 1966
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