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What’s happening today
Arthur Erickson is the star of this year’s Architecture + Design Film Festival. The five-day festival, organized by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, opens today with two feature-length documentaries about the celebrated Canadian architect. The festival continues at various venues until April 13. Ticket info is avialbale here.
Arthur Erickson designed many iconic modernist buildings, including the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. (Colin Knowles photo)
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba Nurses Union is calling on the NDP government to put institutional safety officers in hospitals across the province to curb “escalating” violence against staff, after a nurse was attacked in Winnipeg.
The union said the nurse was “violently” assaulted by a patient in Grace Hospital’s emergency room. A Winnipeg Regional Health Authority spokesperson said police laid charges after the March 26 assault.
“I think we need lots and lots of ISOs in this province, and not just within Winnipeg,” nurses union president Darlene Jackson said. “We are seeing violence escalating everywhere in health-care facilities. ISOs have to be the norm when it comes to security.” Chris Kitching reports.
Grace Hospital (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
The Center for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia’s southern coast.
The Washington-based centre says in a Facebook post that biologist Mark Malleson encountered J-pod, part of the larger population of southern resident killer whales, as the orcas swam past Victoria Harbour on Sunday.
The centre says he observed and documented a newborn calf swimming alongside a whale known as J40 and it’s thought to be her first calf. The Canadian Press reports.
A killer whale calf is shown travelling with her mother, J35, also known as Tahlequah, in the Puget Sound area in December 2024. (Supplied / Center For Whale Research-Maya Sears / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On April 9, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Berlin, talks between the Soviet Union and the western powers over control of Germany saw new points of friction, and a joint four-power rule of the country looked increasingly unlikely. In Ottawa, the federal wartime prices and trade board would soon authorize increases in the prices of shortening and soap to compensate for the rise in freight rates. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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