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The Progressive Conservatives are facing “catastrophic numbers for a governing party,” a poll by Probe Research for the Free Press shows.

A bear attacked four people, barged onto a military camp and disrupted flights at an airport in Sapporo, Japan. It was later shot and killed.

Iranians are voting for a new president. Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protegé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who is under U.S. sanctions, is the front-runner to replace Hassan Rouhani.

A woman is charged with manslaughter in the city’s latest homicide.

— Adam Treusch, assignment editor

 

What’s happening today

A queue outside the Leila Avenue vaccination centre. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)

A queue outside the Leila Avenue vaccination centre. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)

COVID-19 crisis: The provincial government will hold its regular Friday news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic. Danielle Da Silva reports on calls to expand walk-in vaccination clinics and how Manitoba’s supply of Pfizer shots will be slashed early next month. READ MORE

Doctors on delta: A group of doctors says the delta COVID-19 variant threatens reopening plans and a return to school in September and is urging the provincial government to create and share new public health models that take the variant and vaccine efficacy into account. READ MORE

Still searching for suspect: Manitoba RCMP officers continue to search for homicide suspect Eric Paul Wildman in connection with the disappearance of his neighbour Clifford Joseph. Wildman was last seen Wednesday night east of Whitemouth. “Until they catch him, I’ll keep my doors locked,” Brereton Lake Resort’s owner said. Erik Pindera reports. READ MORE

Weather

Your forecast: Increasingly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the morning and early afternoon, a high of 21 C and peak winds at 30 km/h.

In case you missed it

The Manitoba Law Courts building in downtown Winnipeg is seen on Monday, August 18, 2014. A murder trial in Manitoba will continue with 11 jurors after one was discharged because he was showing COVID-19 symptoms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

The Manitoba Law Courts building in downtown Winnipeg is seen on Monday, August 18, 2014. A murder trial in Manitoba will continue with 11 jurors after one was discharged because he was showing COVID-19 symptoms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Sex offender sentenced: A man was sentenced to five years in prison for internet luring, extortion, and making and distributing child pornography while on probation for sexually assaulting a young girl. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE

Nursing enrolment numbers: Education reporter Maggie Macintosh has reaction to the province’s request for nursing colleges to submit proposals on increasing admissions as fast as possible. READ MORE

‘Political tool’: The Conservatives have pulled their MPs from a special national security committee, accusing the Liberal government of using it to cover up an incident that caused two scientists at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory to be fired. The committee “is now being used as a political tool by the prime minister to cover up the Winnipeg lab incident,” Tory Leader Erin O’Toole said. READ MORE

On this date

On June 18, 1970: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a new 48-point code of ethics, reflecting changes in thinking by the Canadian medical profession, was endorsed by MDs. A white paper presented in Ottawa placed responsibility for jobless insurance in times of high unemployment on the federal government and proposed increased benefits and expanded eligibility. The West German ambassador to Brazil, held hostage by guerillas, was released by his captors.

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