The Wrap: Bay redevelopment, nursing changes, an assignment on residential schools
Plus: a team of their own

The federal government is providing an additional $30 million to support the redevelopment of the former downtown Hudson’s Bay Co. into a housing and cultural hub for Indigenous people, the Free Press has learned.

Multiple sources confirmed the funding will be announced Friday morning by officials from the Southern Chiefs’ Organization, which is leading the project, and the federal government, including regional minister and St. Boniface MP Dan Vandal.

Malak Abas reports on what we know so far about the new cash.

Manitoba aims to shift health-care dollars from for-profit nursing agencies to the public system by getting health regions to rely less on private firms to fill staffing gaps — and by making it harder for nurses to work in both systems.

The Manitoba Nurses Union supports the plan, but the Progressive Conservatives say the NDP government is “forcing” nurses out of private agencies and into the public system.

A rural Manitoba school division is apologizing after Grade 9 students were asked to name two positive things about residential schools.

An assignment sent home with Steinbach Regional Secondary School students in early April asked them to “make a list of what you think are two positive and two negative effects of residential schools” under a learning activity titled “The Legacy of Residential Schools.”

The question was inadvertently pulled from a “provincial course package that is no longer in use,” school division officials told reporter Nicole Buffie.

An all-girls team is competing in Winnipeg’s 15U AA baseball league for the first time in Baseball Manitoba’s history.

Previously, girls played on boys’ teams — but they weren’t necessarily finding a ton of opportunities to play the prime positions on the diamond.

Enthusiasm within the group was palpable during a visit to Optimist Park earlier this week, writes sports reporter Ken Wiebe.