Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 early this afternoon. High 11 C, wind chill -7 this morning.
What’s happening today
ARP Books is holding a First Fridays talk at its office (205-70 Arthur St.) from 7-8 p.m. featuring a pair of the publisher’s authors discussing inner-city Winnipeg. Owen Toews (Stolen City, Island Falls) and Kathy Mallett (co-editor of Indigenous Resistance & Development in Winnipeg: 1960-2000) will build on a December 2023 conversation they had with Nahlah Ayed on CBC’s Ideas about Winnipeg’s inner city. Admission is free and all ARP Books titles will be on sale for 20 per cent off.
Queens of the Stone Age will turn back the clock to a time when the hard-rock group cranked up the volume. Canada Life Centre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $47.75.-95.50 at ticketmaster.ca.
Josh Homme and his band Queens of the Stone Age return to the Canada Life Centre Friday. (Helle Arensbak / Ritzau Scanpix )
Today’s must-read
Cyber thieves have stolen decades’ worth of personal and financial information from students and faculty members at the University of Winnipeg, which was forced to delay exams in response to the attack in late March.
University officials confirmed data from an internal file server was compromised, as they updated the campus community Thursday.
The stolen data includes names, birthdates, street addresses, social insurance numbers, tuition amounts and employee salary information. Tyler Searle has the story.
The University of Winnipeg (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A dog missing in California since the summer turned up more than 2,000 miles (3,218 km) away in Michigan.
Police in Harper Woods, a Detroit suburb, responded to a call about a stray dog last week, picked up the terrier mix and contacted an animal welfare group.
Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society said it quickly discovered that the dog, named Mishka, had an identity chip implanted in her with information about her owner. The Associated Press has the story.
Mehrad Houman holds his dog, Mishka, after she was examined by veterinarian Nancy Pillsbury in Harper Woods, Mich., on March 29. (Corinne Martin via The Associated Press)
On this date
On April 5, 1976: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, foreign secretery James Callaghan took over as prime minister. Manitoba’s 1976 flood season began with a flash flood at MacGregor, which did little damage. Winnipeg electronics dealers said allegations of price-fixing on stereo and hi-fi sound systems were confined to eastern Canada retailers. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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