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Sunny. Wind becoming northeast at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 20 C. UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg Swampy Cree author David A. Robertson launches 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing, a guide for non-Indigenous readers keen on aiding in the efforts of reconciliation, tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location.
As Ben Sigurdson writes, every year near the end of May, Chardonnay lovers around the world raise a glass in celebration of the noblest of noble white wine grapes as part of World Chardonnay Day, which this year takes place today. “Here in Canada, the festivities will look a little different as Chardonnays from south of the border will be largely absent from our glasses.” Read more here.
Today’s must-read
Former premier Heather Stefanson and two of her ex-cabinet ministers violated conflict-of-interest laws after losing the 2023 election and should be fined thousands, the province’s ethics watchdog has found.
Ethics commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor’s 100-page report said Stefanson did not stand to benefit financially from approval of the Sio Silica project, but her efforts to push for a licence “lacked ethical and constitutional legitimacy.” He recommended she be fined $18,000.
Schnoor recommended a $12,000 fine for former Spruce Woods MLA, deputy premier and finance minister Cliff Cullen and a $10,000 fine for Red River North MLA Jeff Wharton, the former economic development minister who was re-elected. Carol Sanders has the story.
A new report from Manitoba’s ethics commissioner recommends fines for former premier Heather Stefanson. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Jaron Kohari never thought his path to sobriety would involve horses.
The 1,000-pound animals unnerved him upon his arrival at a farm outside Lexington, Ky., that teaches horsemanship to addicts, with the prospects of a job and a future if they get clean. But in short order they were making him feel content, the same emotion he used to chase with alcohol and drugs.
“You’re not used to caring for anything,” said Kohari, a 36-year-old former underground coal miner from eastern Kentucky. “You’re kind of selfish and these horses require your attention 24/7, so it teaches you to love something and care for it again.”
Frank Taylor’s idea for the Stable Recovery program was born six years ago out of a need for help on his family’s 1,100-acre farm that has foaled and raised some of racing’s biggest stars in the heart of Kentucky horse country. The Associated Press has more here.
Frank Taylor guides mares away from an open gate in Nicholasville, Ky. (Jon Cherry The Associated Press files)
On this date
On May 22, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Italy, the Nazi command had thrown its last reserve into battle south of Rome; the American vanguard was thrown back two to three miles from Terracina; and Canadian infantry pierced the barbed wire of the Hitler line northeast of Pontecorvo. In Winnipeg, a 14-year-old boy was killed and his two companions wounded when a tin holding a large quantity of cartridge caps exploded; the boys had struck the tin with a rock, thinking it might contain money. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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