Good morning
Your forecast: Can you handle a curveball? Environment Canada just tossed a mean one our way. Sure, it’s going to be nice and sunny this morning. But gird yourself for a very cloudy afternoon with a 60 per cent chance of thunderstorms late today. The threat of showers continues into the evening, although the sky is expected to clear overnight. The daytime high is 33 C, while Thursday should be sunny and 32 C.
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– 2679 Scotia Street listing – former Hell’s Angels clubhouse REMAX 2015 Winnipeg
Gangsters’ former clubhouse sold: A private buyer paid well under the asking price for the former Hells Angels clubhouse on Scotia Street. The riverbank property in north Winnipeg recently sold to a private buyer for $248,000, a Re/Max listing agent said Tuesday. The asking price was $275,000. The single-storey house, built in 1954, has sat vacant since being raided by police on July 29, 2010. The place needs a major overhaul, and the new owners plan to fully renovate the 2,865-square-foot house. Police had seized it under the province’s Criminal Property Forfeiture Act. READ MORE
Craft brewery on tap: The Forks CEO Paul Jordan says an on-site craft brewery will be constructed, with operation set to begin as early as December 2016. Requests for proposals will go out soon and the successful brewing business will operate out of the $1.8-million turnkey operation at the northwest corner of the market. Jordan is expected to release more details today. READ MORE
Deadly fire deemed accidental: A tragic house fire that killed four boys in southern Manitoba last winter was accidental, although the Manitoba fire commissioner’s office cannot determine an exact cause. Four brothers died in the overnight fire that destroyed their two-storey farmhouse in the community of Kane, located about 20 kilometres west of Morris, on Feb. 25. “The extent of the fire damage prevented efforts to determine with certainty the cause of the fire, despite months of interviews and investigative efforts,” the fire commissioner’s office said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. Bobby, 15, Timmy, 12, Danny, 10, and Henry Froese, 9, died in the fire, while their mother and three siblings were able to escape. The four boys had been sleeping on the second-floor of the home when the fire broke out around 12:30 a.m. READ MORE
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CHRISTOPHER PIKE / POSTMEDIA NEWS ARCHIVESNigel Wright had a binder detailing Sen. Duffy’s official and personal activities.
PM’s former chief of staff to testify: In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, will begin testifying this morning at the criminal trial of Sen. Mike Duffy. His testimony is a key moment for the trial and ongoing election campaign — it will centre on the famous $90,000 payment given to Duffy to assist with repaying his disallowed Senate expenses READ MORE
Memorial for Yazidis’ plight: This time last year, the world turned its attention to a massacre of 5,000 Yazidi people on a desert mountain in Iraq. Today at 5:30 p.m., Winnipeg’s 170-member Yazidi community is holding a memorial at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to remember what happened last year and to draw attention to the continued threat their loved ones in Iraq and Turkey still face. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Glenn Price, owner of a medical marijuana shop says his wrists are still swollen from being handcuffed after his recent arrest. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Pot shop re-opens on Main: Glenn Price, owner of Your Medical Cannabis Headquarters in the 1400 block of Main Street, is back in business – kind of. Despite being arrested earlier this month after his shop was raided by city police, he has opened his doors to the public once again, although the walls and display cases are now empty. “I’m not selling anything. I’m just educating and bringing awareness to Winnipeg,” Price, 54, told the Free Press on Tuesday. He started a petition he intends to deliver to city council to encourage it to hold hearings about medical marijuana dispensaries being allowed in Winnipeg. READ MORE
No saviours in sight for Bombers: Don’t expect someone to parachute in and save the day for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, even with No.1 quarterback Drew Willy out for up to two months with a serious leg injury. The CFL club will hit the practice field today with either Brian Brohm or Robert Marve leading the offence. But which of the two backup QBs gets the starting job Friday night when the Bombers host the Toronto Argonauts is still anyone’s guess. Winnipeg was dumped 38-8 by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday to fall to 3-4 on the season. READ MORE
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#worldelephantday: Today marks the fourth annual World Elephant Day, a day to “bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants,” according to a website about the annual event. Experts say there may be fewer than 400,000 African elephants and less than 40,000 Asian elephants remaining in the wild, according to worldelephantday.org READ MORE
#GenoSmith: New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith suffered a broken jaw and is expected to miss the next six to 10 weeks after he was sucker-punched during an altercation in the club’s dressing room by Jets’ reserve linebacker Ik Enemkpali, who was immediately released. READ MORE
This date:
On August 12, 1941: Captain Frank D. Bradbrooke, a former employee of the Winnipeg Free Press and a graduate of the University of Manitoba, was among 22 men killed in a flying accident in the United Kingdom.
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