Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with wind from the south at 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 18 C. UV index 5 or moderate. A special weather statement is in effect as a late season winter storm is poised to impact southern Manitoba beginning overnight Wednesday night through Thursday.
The Manitoba government warned Tuesday Peguis First Nation will likely need to be evacuated owing to the severe risk of flooding and it called on public servants to help.
“It’s a bit of an all-hands-on-deck situation,” Lisa Naylor, minister of transportation and infrastructure, said Tuesday. Read the full story here.
Transportation and infrastructure minister Lisa Naylor said an evacuation of Peguis First Nation is likely. (Mikaela MacKenize / Free Press files)
What’s happening today
📚 The Wild & Wonderful Words reading series returns to Sookram’s Brewing Co. (479-B Warsaw St.), hosted as always by author (and Free Press reviewer) Sheldon Birnie, and will feature Catherine Hunter, M.M. Deluca, Sean Trinder and Sarah Higgins reading selections from their writing. The readings kick off at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
What began as a quiet departure has rapidly snowballed into a tangled web of contradictions for the Manitoba government.
The controversy around the dismissal of the province’s original independent commissioner of teacher professional conduct deepened Tuesday, as Bobbi Taillefer released her side of the story behind her sudden exit.
Taillefer, who publicly left the role last week after the Free Press revealed she was working remotely from Florida, broke her silence in a written statement that directly challenges the narrative put forward by Premier Wab Kinew. Jeff Hamilton has the story.
Manitoba’s former commissioner of teacher professional conduct, Bobbi Taillefer.(Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Canadian picture book author-illustrator Jon Klassen has won the 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, presented annually by the Swedish Arts Council and considered one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
The award — named after the late Swedish children’s author and is presented to “a person or organization for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature” — is worth five million Swedish krona, or about $749,000.
Klassen was born in Winnipeg, grew up in Niagara Falls, Ont., and now lives in Los Angeles. Read the full story here.
Jon Klassen (Supplied)
On this date
On April 15, 1941: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Greece, German attacks on the British-held right flank of the Allied line were repulsed but the Nazis were advancing on the left after taking Phlorina. A severe earthquake hit Mexico City. In Manitoba, rising waters on the Red and Assiniboine rivers led to flooding basements in St. James.
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