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Goodbye, games: The Canada Summer Games ended Sunday with a closing ceremony at Investors Group Field. Columnist Melissa Martin says the vibe was electric at the two-week event, surpassing even the most optimistic expectations. READ MORE

Your forecast: It will be mainly sunny and hot to start the work week, with a high of 29 C.

In case you missed it

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSouth St. Boniface residents want an independent company to conduct a new air-quality test at Industrial Metals.

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

South St. Boniface residents want an independent company to conduct a new air-quality test at Industrial Metals.

Crying foul: The South St. Boniface Residents Association is meeting with government officials Tuesday to push for new air-quality testing at a scrap metal operation. The residents say two experts they consulted determined the testing conducted by the province last year was inadequate. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE

‘Diamonds’ in Duff’s Ditch: Members of the Mineral Society of Manitoba are digging into the side of the Red River Floodway searching for selenite crystals. The society hasn’t been able to look for the crystals, which are also known as Manitoba diamonds, since the expansion of the floodway in 2008. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE

Sequel to success: The University of Winnipeg wants to build a mixed residential complex on land it recently acquired at the corner of St. Mary Avenue and Good Street. The site is less than a block away from the university’s 14-storey, $30-million Downtown Commons and would be similar in size to that tower. Murray McNeill reports. READ MORE

Up next

Medication mistakes: The College of Pharmacists of Manitoba is launching a year-long pilot program where pharmacists review why medication errors occur and how they can be prevented. A news conference announcing the program, which is being done in partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada and SafetyNET Rx, is scheduled for this morning.

Monday with the Mooch: Former White House communications director Anthony (the Mooch) Scaramucci, who was fired after only 11 days in the wake of an infamous phone call to a journalist, will be a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

Around the water cooler

Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times FilesThe province has until July 1, 2018 to implement a system to control the sale of marijuana.

Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times Files

The province has until July 1, 2018 to implement a system to control the sale of marijuana.

Pallister and pot: Premier Brian Pallister appears to have deliberately avoided doing much of anything to meet Ottawa’s deadline for the legalization of marijuana, columnist Dan Lett writes. In fact, he has put a lot of effort into delaying the inevitable, Lett says. READ MORE

Dissecting decisive win: Mike Sawatzky has five takeaways from the Blue Bombers’ road win against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night. Winnipeg’s defence played well, and quarterback Matt Nichols played another mistake-free game, Sawatzky writes. READ MORE

Trending now

Steve Helber / The Associated PressWhite nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday.

Steve Helber / The Associated Press

White nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday.

#Charlottesville: Trending after a Saturday rally in Charlottesville, Va., organized by supporters of white nationalism, Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan, resulted in violence and the death of a counter-protester after a rally supporter allegedly drove his car into her. That driver, James Alex Fields Jr., had reportedly long been fascinated with Nazism and idolized Adolf Hitler; he has been charged with second-degree murder. READ MORE

On this date

On Aug. 14, 1961: The East German government closed the Brandenburg gate between East and West Berlin, stopping the flood of refugees and igniting fears of war. The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was facing numerous charges for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity, ended and turned over to three judges. British Columbia was contending with 300 forest fires over thousands of acres, with 1,251 men, 86 bulldozers and 13 aircraft battling 62 fires in the St. George District alone. READ MORE

 

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