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What’s happening today
The federal government is set to unveil its budget today — the Liberals’ first fiscal update in almost a year and the first summary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s agenda since the party released its spring election platform. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, shakes hands with Finance Minister Francois Philippe-Champagne in March. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (85 Israel Asper Way) hosts author and accessibilty consultant Max Brault, launching his new book The Race to the Starting Line, in which he digs into key elements of the Accessible Canada Act, which aims to make Canada barrier-free by 2040.
The event runs from 5-7 p.m. Tickets are $25 and include a e-book or audiobook copy of The Race to the Starting Line as well as refreshments, and are available here.
November’s Speaking Crow open-mic poetry night takes place tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Boniface library (100-131 Provencher Blvd.), hosted by Angeline Schellenberg; this month’s featured reader is Ontario poet Susan Wismer.
Keep abreast of literary news and events in Ben Sigurdson’s weekly Paper Chase column.
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew condemned a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that rejected mandatory minimum sentences for possessing child pornography, saying not only should pedophiles serve jail time, “they should bury you under the prison.”
The high court ruled Friday that one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional.
“This is, like, one of the worst things that anyone can do,” Kinew said, referring to child pornography at an unrelated event Monday.
The court said that although jail sentences contribute to the objectives of denunciation and deterrence, they also remove judges’ discretion to impose alternatives to imprisonment when appropriate. Carol Sanders has the story.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
When Lambert started losing his vision and slowing down a few steps, it became clear that he needed to be relocated to a place where he could age safely and still be with his friends.
But he couldn’t be placed in just any nursing home — because he is a critically endangered African penguin. Instead, the New England Aquarium in Boston, where the 33-year-old Lambert was born and has lived his entire life, decided in February to open a geriatric island for him and its six other aging penguins.
“Honestly, it sort of started off as a joke. It’s like, ‘Oh, well, why don’t we give them an old folks home?’” Eric Fox, associate curator of penguins at the aquarium, said. “But the more we were looking at their welfare data and understanding what ailments they go through, what physical limitations they have, we started to realize that we were on to something.” The Associated Press has more here.
A southern rockhopper penguin at the New England Aquarium in Boston. (Robert F. Bukaty / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 4, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an appeal against the conviction of Lawrence Deacon in the slaying of taxi driver Johann Johnson would be launched by his lawyer; Deacon had been sentenced to death. Two men were being held by city police in connection with a mysterious death in an automobile in the West End. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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