What you need to know
THE CANADIAN PRESS/John WoodsNashville Predators’ Filip Forsberg and Ryan Johansen celebrate Forsberg’s goal against Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck during second period on Monday.
Wipe out: White-clad fans inside and outside of Bell MTS Place were ready to party Monday evening, but there was nothing to cheer. The Jets lost 4-0 to the Nashville Predators, and the best-of-seven playoff series is now tied at three games each. On Thursday evening in Nashville, the winner takes all. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today won’t be as hot as Monday but a high of 19 C offers the promise of a nice day, weather-wise. The wind will blow from 20 to 30 km/h. The temperature overnight will drop to a low of 11.
What’s on today
Double homicide: A man who killed two neighbours in a Winnipeg rooming house will learn his sentence today. Jeffrey James Kionke stabbed Unice Ophelia Crow, 19, at least 10 times and Trevor James Sinclair, 31, at least 16 times in their third-floor suite on Chestnut Street. Kevin Rollason will attend the sentencing.
Broadway revival: Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and Dry Cold Productions are collaborating on a production of the Broadway musical Falsettos, which was originally produced in 1992 at the height of the AIDS crisis and revived in 2016. It runs nightly through Sunday at Berney Theatre. Randall King reviews the show. READ MORE
In case you missed it
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESWinnipeg city council’s property and development committee waived the building impact fee on only four of 22 townhouse buildings in a Waverley Pointe development project.
Stagnating at city hall: An architect with the Waverley West development says a city-hall delay will cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. The firm missed a deadline because of a required street name change even though the proposal for the change sat untouched at city hall for six months. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Cannabis stores: Which level of government will decide the location of Winnipeg’s marijuana stores? It will likely be the province, not the city. A city committee on Monday recommended to council that the province determine retail locations for selling marijuana, similar to the way it chooses spots for liquor sales. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski and Solomon Israel report. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue of Canada perform in the ice dance free dance figure skating team event in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (David J. Phillip / The Associated Press Files)
Ice-skating royalty: A who’s who of figure skating will lace up in Winnipeg on Wednesday during Stars on Ice at Bell MTS Place. The lineup includes Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford and Kaetlyn Osmond. Laurie Nealin reports. READ MORE
Historic surgery: At her first birthday party, Ireland Gault heard her parents sing Happy Birthday. It was a big deal because she was born deaf but, when she was 10 months old, Ireland received a cochlear implant, becoming the youngest Manitoban to undergo the procedure. Jane Gerster reports. READ MORE
On this date
On May 8, 1912: The Manitoba Free Press reported that more immigrants from the United States were expected to come to Canada, as many as 170,000 in the coming year, and that the campaign “Million for Manitoba” to encourage people to settle in the province was already attracting interest in the U.S. In London, Fred W. Thompson of Montreal, vice-president of the Ogilvie Flour Mills and director of the Royal Bank of Canada, had died. READ MORE
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