COVID-19 crisis
The chief of a First Nation in Manitoba says the community will go ahead with its annual powwow next month even if provincial public health orders continue to limit the size of public gatherings to 50 people. Lake Manitoba First Nation Chief Cornell McLean is seen in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Chief Cornell McLean, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Powwow amid pandemic: Chief Cornell McLean says Lake Manitoba First Nation will hold its annual powwow in June even if the size of public gatherings are still restricted. “We will make sure that social distancing is being followed,” he said. “We won’t have people standing arm in arm, that’s for sure, but we will find a way to make it work for our community.” The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Conference call: As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s premiers prepare for a conference call today, there are signs a collaborative spirit might be starting to give way to the usual regional tensions and jurisdictional spats. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Pandemic recovery plan: Trudeau will co-host a United Nations conference today aimed at developing a co-ordinated global response to mitigating the social and economic impacts of the pandemic. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Ready for rebound: Manitoba will see a 4.5 per cent drop in GDP in 2020 but is expected to have one of the strongest rebounds in 2021, a report by the Conference Board of Canada states. Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
Keeping customers safe: Nadya Pankiw reports on what clothing stores are doing to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Increasingly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers beginning later this morning, a high of 14 C, and wind at 20 km/h from the west gusting for 40, increasing to 40 km/h from the northwest and gusting to 60 at about noon.
What’s happening today
Carlos Gonzalez / Minneapolis Star Tribune / TNSA fire burns at an AutoZone store in Minneapolis on Wednesday, as protesters demonstrate against the death of George Floyd in a confrontation with Minneapolis police on Monday evening.
More violence in Minneapolis: Fires set by protesters after a black man was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis continued to burn this morning, as looters raided stores near a police precinct Wednesday night. A suspect is in custody after a man was fatally shot during the protests, and it’s not clear what led to the shooting. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Tactical team arrest: Winnipeg police said more information will be released today after a man was arrested in the Exchange District Wednesday night as part of a firearms investigation.
Taking on Twitter: U.S. President Donald Trump, in tweets sent Wednesday, threatened social-media companies with new regulation or even shuttering after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets. The White House later said he would sign an executive order today related to social-media companies but provided no further details. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
In other news
Kyle Lefort photoThe number of killer whales in Arctic waters was estimated based on a study of the number of individuals sighted in the region over a ten year period. This photo shows an example of a unique marking called a saddle patch that aids in the identification of individual whales.
Wider range for whales: Researchers at the University of Manitoba have been working to identify how orcas have ventured farther into the Arctic archipelago in summer because of climate change breaking up sea ice. Sarah Lawrynuik reports. READ MORE
Hong Kong’s constitution: China’s national legislature has ratified a proposal to impose a national security law on Hong Kong. Meanwhile, three pro-democracy lawmakers were ejected from Hong Kong’s legislative chamber during debate on a bill that would criminalize insulting or abusing China’s national anthem. READ MORE
On this date
On May 28, 1981: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Seven Sisters man who had built up savings at a Royal Bank in Selkirk and a Bank of Montreal in Kenora, Ont., was surprised to learn the banks were planning to turn those funds, worth nearly $15,000 over to the Bank of Canada for safekeeping; after 10 years with no activity in the accounts, the banks assumed he had died. He was one of several thousand Canadians with “dormant” bank accounts, or accounts with no transactions for nine years or more. In Ottawa, the first of three reports showed Canada’s good record on air safety was slipping. Also in Ottawa, former Manitoba highways minister Joe Borowski made legal history by being the first person to be ejected from the Supreme Court of Canada. Borowski, a citizen arguing to have abortion provisions in the Criminal Code declared invalid, was ejected from the chamber for interrupting his own lawyer.
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