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Clearing this morning. Wind becoming northwest at 30 km/h early this afternoon. High 13 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🎸 Catch The Bonaduces at the West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave., tonight at 8 p.m. alongside Winnipeg folk-punk artist Greg Rekus and grunge-pop outfit Mise en Scene. Tickets $25 to $30, available online.
The Bonaduces (John Woods / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Canada’s vast landscape, which boasts 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater, a quarter of global wetlands and 28 per cent of its boreal forests, is critical to its economy. Natural resource industries — forests, farms, fisheries, mining and oil and gas — together make up approximately seven per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product.
Tension exists between expanding these industrialized sectors and protecting the ecosystems on which they depend.
In Manitoba, some worry protecting the Seal River Watershed, which spans more than 50,000 square kilometres in the province’s north, will hinder opportunities in mineral resources and hydro.
An aerial view of some of the forest that borders the Nelson River northeast of Gillam. (Tim Smith for The Narwhal)
These tensions make it easy to frame nature as the antithesis of economic activity, if it’s always put in opposition to projects that are described as growing Canada’s wealth, sovereignty and security.
But a growing chorus of economic and policy leaders, alongside conservation groups, are making the case for nature to be seen as a critical financial asset — not a barrier, but another opportunity for economic growth. Julia-Simone Rutgers has the story.
On the bright side
Three Winnipeg restaurants have made it into the annual Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list.
Mandel Hitzer’s Deer + Almond and Emily Butcher’s Nola, both which appeared last year, retained their spots but dropped down in placing. New opening Peacock by Ed Lam and Esther Lo — which replaced the pair’s much-loved sushi restaurant Yujiro in February — was 68th on the list. AV Kitching has more here.
Nola owner Emily Butcher (John Woods / Free Press files)
On this date
On May 8, 1974: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Washington, D.C., White House lawyer James St. Clair told a U.S. district judge that president Richard Nixon would turn over no more tapes regarding the Watergate political espionage scandal. In Ottawa, the Trudeau government would face Parliament in what appeared certain defeat on its budget, which would set the stage for a July 8 federal election.
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