Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning. Wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 3 C, wind chill -9 this morning. UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🍁 Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to name a new governor general today at a press conference in Ottawa. The Canadian Press reports.
✒️ The monthly Speaking Crow poetry reading series continues, featuring Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman tonight at 6:30 p.m. at St. Boniface Library, 131 Provencher Blvd.
Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A city police constable and one-time partner of imprisoned former police officer Elston Bostock is now on trial accused of compromising a crime scene the two men had been assigned to protect.
Jonathan Kiazyk, an 18-year veteran of the Winnipeg Police Service at the time of the October 2022 incident, pleaded not guilty Monday morning to charges of entering a dwelling with intent to commit theft, obstructing a police officer and breach of trust.
Kiazyk is accused of entering a Stradbrook Avenue Airbnb rental with Bostock before a search warrant had been secured and disturbing evidence, defying direction to remain outside the suite. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Jonathan Kiazyk leaves the law courts with his lawyer Mike Cook Monday. (Free Press photo)
On the bright side
A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike.
Just 500 kilometres or so across, this mini Pluto is thought to be the solar system’s smallest object yet with a clearly detected global atmosphere bound by gravity, said lead researcher Ko Arimatsu of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The Associated Press has more here.
An artist’s impression of the trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93 occulting a background star. (Ko Arimatsu / NAOJ via The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 5, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Albert Victor Westgate would not take the stand at his own trial; he was charged with murder in the death of Edith Cook at the Marlborough Hotel. In Europe, R.A.F., R.C.A.F. and U.S. bombers continued for the 21st day striking German anti-invasion positions in France in a massive Allied offensive.
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