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Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of rain showers or flurries this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud. High 10 C. UV index 4 or moderate.
Preparations for another spring flood in Peguis First Nation ramped up Monday while residents feared a repeat of past disasters, and weather forecasters predicted additional precipitation later this week.
Dozens more people joined the effort to help fill sandbags, build dikes or set up temporary barriers around houses and other priority buildings or infrastructure that could be at risk in the Interlake community.
“I’m just worried right now. If they’re comparing this to 2022, I can’t see how our house isn’t directly in the flood zone,” said Rick Sutherland, who worked day and night to save his house from rising flood water four years ago. Chris Kitching has more here.
Volunteers from national humanitarian aid organization Team Rubicon are helping with flood prevention in Manitoba’s Peguis First Nation. (Supplied)
What’s happening today
📖 Award-winning author Yann Martel will read from his new novel Son of Nobody and discuss the book in coversation with Free Press Books editor Ben Sigurdson. McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, 7 p.m. Read a full preview here.
Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody was inspired in part by Homer’s The Iliad.(Tammy Zdunich photo)
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Winnipeg’s homelessness crisis is accelerating, not easing, as new data released Monday shows more people are falling into homelessness than are finding a way out.
End Homelessness Winnipeg says the number of people living without stable housing reached 8,248 in March, an increase of 104 from February.
More than half of them — 4,463 — are experiencing chronic homelessness, defined by EHW as someone who has been homeless for at least six months in the past year or has experienced repeated episodes over several years. Scott Billeck has the story.
End Homelessness Winnipeg executive director Jennifer Rattray said the latest data underscores the growing scale and urgency of the city’s humanitarian crisis. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On this date
On April 14, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Tehran, premier Hussein Ala sought a vote of confidence from parliament as new demonstrations were threatened in Iran’s strike-troubled southern oilfields. In Washington, D.C., Gen. Douglas MacArthur would address Congress, with the approval of president Harry Truman, who had dismissed him as Far Eastern commander because he feared the general’s policies would lead to a third world war.
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