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A mix of sun and cloud, becoming cloudy near noon with a few showers. Wind from the southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming east 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 17 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Speaking Crow, the city’s longest-running poetry evening, returns with an evening at Whodunit? bookstore, 163 Lilac St., at 7 p.m. The free event features Sue Sorensen, whose debut poetry collection Acutely Life was published in February by At Bay Press, as well as a range of new and experienced poets.
Sue Sorensen (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A trial for a Winnipeg man accused of murdering four Indigenous women will now be heard by a judge, not a jury, a court heard Monday. The development came three days after King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal ruled the trial of Jeremy Skibicki would be heard by a jury.
Skibicki, 37, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder. Last Wednesday, the defence confirmed on the record Skibicki is admitting to the killings, and will be arguing he is not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder.
With Skibicki’s admission he killed the four women, the Crown can now consent to him being tried by a judge alone, prosecutor Chris Vanderhooft told Joyal during a brief hearing Monday. Dean Prichard has the story.
Jeremy Skibicki in court Monday (James Culleton illustration)
On the bright side
A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work by the Italian Baroque master, Spain’s Prado Museum announced Monday.
The painting, once considered to have been lost, will be unveiled to the public for the first time in the museum later this month.
The Prado said in a statement the work titled “Ecce Homo” (Latin for Behold The Man) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio will go on display from May 27 until October as a special one-piece exhibition following an agreement with its new owner, who has not been identified. The Associated Press reports.
This combination of photos shows the restoration work on Caravaggio’s “Ecce Homo.” (Prado Museum / The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 7, 1931: The Manitoba Free Press reported Manitoba wheat pool members would be given the right to choose between pooling their grain voluntarily or selling it on the open market, if proposals put forth by the pool directors were approved by members. In Washington, D.C., the department of agriculture was expected to release figures showing the surprising result that the Soviet Union was the world’s leading producer of wheat. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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