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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSManitoba Education Minister Cliff Cullen speaks at a COVID-19 press conference at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg Sunday, May 9, 2021. Additional COVID-19 measures for schools including closures were announced.
Back to school… for a bit: Many students will return to classes for a penultimate day of in-person learning after the province announced schools in Winnipeg and Brandon will close as of Wednesday amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases among children. Temur Durrani reports.
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Case numbers climbing: Health officials will announce Manitoba’s latest COVID-19 case numbers after more than 1,500 since Friday. The province announced 532 new coronavirus cases Sunday, the second-highest number so far. Temur Durrani reports. READ MORE
Clash with Canucks: The Winnipeg Jets will seek to avoid another losing streak when they host the Vancouver Canucks at 7 p.m. The Jets lost to Ottawa on Saturday after winning their previous game and losing seven consecutive before that. The Jets scored only 16 goals over those nine games and need a win in their last three games, or a Montreal Canadiens loss, to clinch third place in the division. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of 13 C, wind chill as low as -8 this morning and wind from the north at 10 km/h increasing to 20 km/h late this afternoon.
In case you missed it
Greg Kyllo, executive director of the Bruce Oake Treatment Centre (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Treatment centre opening soon: The Bruce Oake Treatment Centre will welcome its first residents in less than three weeks. The pandemic hasn’t slowed the construction of the centre, which will be finished months before the planned fall opening. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Most contacts not notified: Information obtained by the Free Press raises questions about how useful the COVID Alert app is. The app has been used to notify contacts in only 3.38 per cent of confirmed infections since October. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
‘Trapped in a hell’: Dan Lett’s latest column is on the province’s “horribly ironic decision” to announce on Mother’s Day that schools will be closing. READ MORE
Thought for food: Shelley Cook’s latest column in on rescuing “food waste.” READ MORE
On this date
On May 10, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Ontario doctors were preparing a strike plan; though no immediate strike action was being considered, it might be initiated if the federal government moved to freeze doctors’ fees. Three hundred students at Windsor Park Collegiate demonstrated in protest after a school guidance counsellor’s contract was not renewed. The Manitoba government made a counter-offer of a 7.5 per cent overall pay increase to civil servants; government employees had sought a 10 per cent increase.
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