Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High 14 C.
What’s happening today
A compilation of work by Métis women scholars, artists, community leaders and more launches at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location.
The collection Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties’ Scholarship (University of Manitoba Press) was edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides focuses on the work of Métis women in post-secondary environments. For more information, click here.
The Winnipeg Jets face the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center, starting at 7 p.m.
In Augusta, Ga., the start of the Masters has been pushed back to 10:30 a.m. local time Thursday because of weather that threatened the pristine grounds of Augusta National, though the majority of the heavy rain and winds tracked south of the course.
Tournament officials said that patron gates will open at 9:30 a.m., two hours later than usual, and Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Player will hit their ceremonial first shots at 10:10 a.m. down Tea Olive, the first hole at Augusta National. The Associated Press reports.
Peter Malnati’s son Hatcher and wife Alicia, watch on the ninth hole during the par-3 contest at the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club Wednesday. (Charlie Riedel / The Associated Press)
Today’s must-read
The City of Winnipeg is examining the idea of cleaning up trash weekly at encampments. To clean up each camp once a week, city Chief Administrative Officer Michael Jack estimates the city would have to spend approximately $4.06 million a year, based on last year’s costs.
Main Street Project’s director of community initiatives Kate Sjoberg said the city’s report is the right step, but that the potential costs Jack cited are wildly overinflated compared to what her organization and others in the sector think regular cleanups would cost. Erik Pindera has the story.
Garbage and traces of prior encampments along the Assiniboine River on Wednesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Space food isn’t Tang and puréed meat in a tube any longer, in fact it’s mushroom bacon and fresh strawberries that have earned a North Vancouver company the grand prize in a Canadian Space Agency and NASA challenge to make food indoors.
Ecoation Innovative Solutions has won the Deep Space Food Challenge with their CanGrow Modular Food Production System, and will receive $380,000 in grant funding as the grand prize winner.
Ecoation CEO Saber Miresmailli said the news was “fantastic,” but what made him feel even more proud was that his idol, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, announced the company’s victory. The Canadian Press reports.
The CanGrow Modular Food Production System by Ecoation Innovative Solutions (Supplied / Ecoation-Saber Miresmailli)
On this date
On April 11, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the handling of information regarding Canadian diplomat E. Herbert Norman by U.S. elected officials, and Norman’s death by suicide, had strained Canada-U.S. relations. In Meadows, Man., a store owner’s home-made alarm foiled two would-be safecrackers, who received a “warm send-off when they were fired at by the storekeeper carrying a .30-.30 callibre rifle.” Two suspects were later arrested by RCMP. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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