Good morning!
Your forecast: You didn’t need to cover the tomatoes overnight, but you’ll feel a chill in the house this morning if you left your windows open, as it was just 9 C at 5 a.m. Temperatures will top out at 23 C this afternoon under a mostly sunny sky and a bit of a breeze. Skies will clear overnight, and the mercury will rise later in the week, with a high of 25 C on Thursday and a sizzling 30 C on Friday.
In case you missed it
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFrom left: Mayor Brian Bowman, Canadian Museum for Human Rights CEO Dr. James Young, and Minister of Education James Allum unveiled platform for the mayor’s National Summit on Racial Inclusion Tuesday at the CMHR.
Anti-racism event: Winnipeg mayor Brian Bowman unveiled plans Tuesday for a national summit to combat racism. Seven months after an article in Maclean’s magazine called Winnipeg the country’s most racist city, Bowman, who is Métis, laid out plans for a two-day event Sept. 17-18 called ONE: The Mayor’s National Summit on Racial Inclusion. It will be held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. READ MORE
City parking review: The City of Winnipeg is going to take a hard look at the way it doles out residential parking permits. A request for proposal was issued by the city this month, seeking a consultant to review the city’s parking permit program and the loading zones throughout downtown Winnipeg, and how things compare to other Canadian cities. READ MORE
The big top: Motorists nearing the corner of Kenaston Boulevard and the Sterling Lyon Parkway are in for a bit of a circus this morning. A massive big top has been constructed at the site, and will house Odysseo, a $30-million show created by Cirque du Soleil co-founder Normand Latourelle. The show, featuring horses, performers and acrobatics, runs from Sept. 10 to Oct. 4. READ MORE
Up next
Graham Hughes / The Canadian PressLiberal Leader Justin Trudeau has set his first official Winnipeg campaign stop for Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Trudeau in town: Didn’t I just see that guy schmoozing in the Fringe beer tent? The Liberal leader is back in town this morning for a breakfast policy announcement at the Holiday Inn on Pembina Highway. His party hopes to win at least three seats in Winnipeg on Oct. 19, so expect to see much of the young Grit over the next two months.
Donning white coats: At the University of Manitoba today, 110 incoming medical students will put on their white coats for the first time and vow to practice ethical medicine by reciting the Hippocratic Oath. They’re a diverse bunch. Ten are self-declared Aboriginal students, four are French-speaking bilingual students and 22 students have rural experience.
Grateful for a job: Some stereotypes are accurate, such as the image of immigrants as eager employees, grateful for opportunity and willing to work hard to succeed. Employers love that. Twenty-nine employers will set up booths today at the third annual Job Fair For Immigrants. It’s at the RBC Convention Centre, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Around the water cooler
Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS filesRhinoceros Party leader Sebastien CoRhino Corriveau, right, and candidate Ben 97 Benoit stand in front of a coffee shop Monday in Montreal.
Dark horses: Canada’s best-known fringe party wants to nationalize Tim Hortons and move the capital to Kapuskasing. The Rhinoceros Party can be counted on to add some much-needed levity to a long, serious election campaign. But serious fringe candidates, including two from Manitoba, say they’re raising issues the Big Three parties ignore. READ MORE
Oh captain, our captain: Three months after hernia surgery, Andrew Ladd says he’s feeling good, he’s skating again and he’s pumped for the upcoming NHL season. In a conversation with the Free Press on Tuesday, the Winnipeg Jets captain talked about the heady goals of the team coming off its first-ever appearance in the playoffs and the buzz surrounding the Jets’ talented pool of young prospects. READ MORE
Trending now
#GoStuffYourself: Those were the parting words of one very irate Conservative Party supporter, whose profanity-laced rant at reporters in Ottawa quickly killed the Internet Tuesday. If you can’t follow all the complicated who-knew-what-when emails in the Duffy trial, you can still enjoy this old codger losing his mind on national television.
Yvonne Craig: The American actress best known for playing Batgirl in the 1960s Batman TV series died of cancer Monday at the age of 78. Craig also played the character of Martha, the green Orion Slave Girl, who wanted to kill Captain Kirk in an early season of Star Trek, and she also had roles in two movies in the early ‘60s with Elvis Presley.
On this date
On August 19, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that price controls were being reimposed on bread and flour made from western Canadian wheat; the recent one-cent increase on loaves of bread in Winnipeg bakeries was expected to be dropped “very soon.” Four Germans were killed during an attack on the Soviet portion of Berlin. Delegates were welcomed to the national C.C.F. convention in Winnipeg. The Manitoba Power Commission began a 143-mile, $850,000 program to extend its facilities in western and central Manitoba. Quebec planned a new political party to campaign in the next federal election, under the name “Parti Canadien.”
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