Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of showers. Wind from the north at 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light early this morning. High 15 C, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Author Jeff Rubin launches his latest book, A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever. It’s a wide-ranging deep dive that details how the COVID-19 lockdown (and financial handouts), the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia and China have contributed to higher interest rates, high inflation and more. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here. McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park, 7 p.m.
Author and economist Jeff Rubin (James Graham photo)
Dry Cold Productions’ presentation of Merrily We Roll Along, a once-failed, now-acclaimed show-biz musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, starts tonight at the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
Merrily We Roll Along tells the stories of three show business dreamers, played by (from left) Alex Menec, Jillian Willems and Josh Bellan. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Less than a decade after making a $30-million donation to the University of Manitoba’s faculty of health sciences and its medical college, Ernest Rady, who was born in Winnipeg and graduated from the university, says he is “hurt” and “appalled” by remarks made in a graduating doctor’s convocation valedictory address last Thursday.
In a letter dated Monday addressed to U of M president and vice-chancellor Michael Benarroch and Rady faculty of heath sciences dean Dr. Peter Nickerson, the entrepreneur and philanthropist took aim at valedictorian Dr. Gem Newman — who referred to the “genocidal war that Israel is waging on the people of Palestine” — and the university, for allowing him to “spew these hateful lies.” Nicole Buffie has the story.
American business leader Ernest Rady (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
No doubt a black bear who wandered into Winnipeg’s Wildwood neighbourhood Tuesday was just looking for a “pic-a-nic basket.” The area may not be Jellystone Park, but its urban tree canopy is attractive all the same.
The appearance of the bruin had people scrambling for cover, and summoning conservation officers. Residents were relieved when the interloper was no longer a threat. Kevin Rollason has the story.
On this date
On May 22, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Britain, France, Germany and Italy informally approved a 10-year peace pact spearheaded by Italian leader Benito Mussolini. In Quebec, seven men died when dynamite exploded in a log-driver’s skiff crossing a lake; survivors clung to wreckage in the icy waters until they were rescued. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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