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Winnipeg Free Press
4 days ago
- Climate
- Winnipeg Free Press
Free Press Head Start for July 25, 2025
Sunny with a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent of showers this afternoon. Wind becoming south 20 km/h this morning. High 28 C. Humidex 35. UV index 8, or very high. What's happening today 🏀 The Winnipeg Sea Bears host the Edmonton Stingers at 7:30 p.m. at the Canada Life Centre. ⚾ The Winnipeg Goldeyes host the Chicago Dogs at 7 p.m. at Blue Cross Park. Tonight's game features a 'Christmas in July' fireworks show. 🩰 The Royal Winnipeg Ballet performs Ballet in the Park at 7:30 p.m. at Assiniboine Park. Read Holly Harris's review. 🎭 The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival closes out this weekend. Still deciding on what show to see? The Free Press reviewed over 140 shows. Today's must-read Indian status is the vehicle for First Nations people to access the rights and benefits to which they are entitled. And while many First Nations people see the concept of status as offensive and paternalistic, there's also the sense that without it, the federal government could skirt the responsibilities, obligations and promises it has made to First Nations people. As far as its significance, holding status can give a person the right to hunt and fish on their treaty lands; to reap (often minuscule) treaty payments; receive financial aid for post-secondary education; and a tax exemption for income earned on-reserve. It also provides insurance for certain health-care costs, such as counselling, dental work and medications. Investigative journalist Marsha McLeod writes on the Indian Act's 'second-generation cut-off' and how it poses an existential threat to treaty people in Canada. Read more. Lou Moodie has made it his mission to educate First Nations peoples on how to reclaim status. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press) On the bright side Zookeepers in Prague sometimes have to become puppeteers to save newborn birds rejected by their parents. This was the case for a lesser yellow-headed vulture chick hatched three weeks ago. Bird keeper Antonín Vaidl said Thursday that when a dummy egg disappeared from the nest, it signaled to keepers that the parents were not ready to care for their two babies, despite doing so in 2022 and 2023. The first-born is being kept in a box and fed using a puppet designed to mimic a parent bird, while another is expected to hatch in the next few days. The Associated Press has more here. A lesser yellow-headed vulture that hatched three weeks ago is being fed by using a puppet that imitates a parent bird at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday. (Petr David Josek / The Associated Press) On this date On July 25, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba Liberal leader Izzy Asper unofficially won the judicial recount of Wolseley constituency ballots by three votes. In Calgary, the four western premiers emerged from the first day of meetings with the prime minister on economic development opportunities having gained some concessions from the federal government, but said they were generally not getting what they had asked for. The national harbours board would spend $12.5 million over the next six years to upgrade Churchill as a port, the transport minister announced. Read the rest of this day's paper here. Search our archives for more here. Today's front page Get the full story: Read today's e-edition of the Free Press .
Winnipeg Free Press
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Visiting Vimy: A personal reflection on patriotism
Free Press theatre reviewers spent last week and weekend hopping from venue to venue to get the skinny on all 140-plus productions at this year's Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, which runs to July 27. We've posted reviews of every play. Find an index of our reviews here, sortable by title and by star review — or if you prefer a bit of serendipity in your review perusal, scroll through 15 pages of reviews in our fringe section (plus profiles, previews and daily happenings). COMING UP The intricacies of Indian status, as defined by Ottawa, can be difficult to navigate. However, what is clear is access to treaty rights for many future First Nations children is threatened by a section of federal legislation called 'second-generation cut-off.' Investigative reporter Marsha McLeod explores efforts to repeal the policy, which has been described as discriminatory and assimilationist. While forest fires rage across Western Canada, a group of experts huddle in a small office in Winnipeg keeping tabs on everything. Their work is a complicated, highly co-ordinated administrative dance involving partners from around the world. Reporter Nicole Buffie goes behind the scenes at the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre as Manitoba grapples with one of its worst wildfire seasons on record. Since the mid-2000s, entertainer José 'Pepê' Cortes has held down a Las Vegas-style residency at the Pony Corral Restaurant & Bar three nights a week, entertaining riverside patio diners with toe-tapping favourites. Feature writer David Sanderson profiles the longtime fixture of Winnipeg's musical scene. Jose 'Pepe' Cortes on the patio at the Pony Corral on Pembina Highway, where he performs summer evenings. (Brook Jones / Free Press) In sports, the second half of the American Association of Professional Baseball league picks up Thursday after the all-star break, with the Winnipeg Goldeyes hosting a season-long seven-game homestand at Blue Cross Park. Zoe Pierce catches up with the Fish Thursday in the four-game series opener against the Chicago Dogs, teeing up the team's hunt for a place in the post-season. And the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are on the road Saturday in a Grey Cup rematch against the Toronto Argonauts. Joshua Frey-Sam brings the action from the sidelines and the storylines to follow as the Blue and Gold try to get back on a winning streak in Week 8. Rita Menzies, who died in June at age 82, led one of the most august careers in Manitoba's arts sector. She was Manitoba Chamber Orchestra's most formative general manager (a position she held for 25 years), the 'saviour' of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where she solved a $3-million deficit in one year as its interim leader, and a key leader of a number of other arts organization. Conrad Sweatman talks to her friends, family and peers for this week's Passages profile. ONE GREAT PHOTO A work crew installs scaffolding for the Gimli International Film Festival screen at the beach on Lake Winnipeg Tuesday. The festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary, began today and ends Sunday. See our story. (Don Gislason photo)
