Free Press Head Start for Aug. 6, 2025

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Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the southwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 27. Humidex 33. UV index 5 or moderate.
The north-central part of the Prairies, including nothern Manitoba, remains under a series of air-quality warnings. Environment Canada says wildfire smoke is contributing to the region's very poor air quality and could cause reduced visibility today. The Canadian Press has more here. What's happening today
The Winnipeg Goldeyes play the Sioux Falls Canaries at Sioux Falls Stadium, starting at 6:35 p.m. Today's must-read
Nurses will vote this week on whether to discourage their colleagues from taking jobs at Health Sciences Centre after a string of sexual assaults in and around the hospital last month highlighted ongoing safety concerns.
It's called 'grey listing,' where a union will warn its members an employer is failing to maintain professional standards and advise against taking new positions there.
The grey list is kept in place until requests made to the employer are met. It would not impact the jobs of the 3,000 Manitoba Nurses Union members currently working at HSC. Malak Abas has the story.
The Health Sciences Centre Emergency entrance (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files) On the bright side
A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a gruesome disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America, more than a decade after the die-off.
Melanie Prentice, the lead author of a new study, recalls a moment of 'not really believing it' when researchers found a strain of bacteria that was abundant in diseased sea stars and absent in healthy ones.
It felt 'incredible' to be part of a discovery that could help make a meaningful difference in the recovery of sea stars and their ecosystems, she said. The Canadian Press has more here.
Sunflower sea stars (pycnopodia helianthoides) and sea vases (ciona intestinalis) are seen in the waters in Rivers Inlet, B.C., (Hakai Institute, Bennett Whitnell / The Canadian Press) On this date
On Aug. 6, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, police stood guard along the route of Imperial conference delegates to the ceremonial opening of the Welland Canal, owing to threats made by a member of Sinn Fein to assassinate J.H. Thomas, British Dominions secretary. In Winnipeg, city police arrested three men and one woman, alleged members of an international confidence gang whose operations were extensive throughout western and eastern Canada, and whose victims, police said, included a farmer in Virden who'd lost $1,000 to one of their schemes. Read the rest of this day's paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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