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What’s happening today
🎤 Created by Berlin-based award-winning playwright and performer Cameryn Moore, this Smut Slam (Limelight Karaoke Bar, The Riverside Hotel, 531 St. Mary’s Road) is an open-mic night inviting audience members to share their real-life sex stories.
Hosted by producer and performer DD Brassiere, Smut Slam is a queer-friendly, kink-friendly, body-positive space for people from all walks of life. Strictly an 18+ night, stories involving any form of discrimination are not welcome. Tonight, 8-10 p.m. Tickets: $17.40 at Eventbrite.
Share your sexual stories with DD Brassiere at Smut Slam. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The lure of ready-made meals may soon come with a tax break, but Manitoba’s restaurant industry worries that shift could steer customers away from their tables.
The Manitoba Restaurant & Foodservices Association says the removal of provincial sales tax from groceries, effective July 1, could take a bite out of restaurant sales.
The province announced Tuesday it will remove PST from products such as rotisserie chicken, prepared sandwiches and fruit trays, and beverages — including carbonated drinks, fruit juice and dealcoholized beer and wine. Scott Billeck has the story.
On Wednesday afternoon, Premier Wab Kinew, surrounded by most of his cabinet at the Red River Co-op on Grant Avenue, prepares to take a bite out of a rotisserie chicken to celebrate removing the PST from groceries. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Amara LeClair starts with the basic questions: Where are you from? Who are your grandparents? Did they forage?
“It’s about building that identity,” said LeClair, a family support co-ordinator at the Manitoba Métis Federation’s Infinity Women Secretariat.
She’s clocked demand from Métis women wanting to understand their culture. LeClair works with people who’ve faced gender-based and family violence.
On Wednesday, she set up a booth at the province’s first Indigenous Parenting Gathering — a free event focused on Indigenous motherhood, fatherhood and queer parenting. Gabrielle Piché has more here.
Minister Nahanni Fontaine: highlighting good in Indigenous families is the goal. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
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