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Mainly sunny, with a high of 10 C, and UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressman Taylor, is on now at Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and runs until April 21. Ben Waldman has a preview here. For more information, visit wjt.ca.
Amitai Kedar (right) as Max and Arne MacPherson as Martin Schulse in Address Unknown. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Staff at Health Sciences Centre face an “unacceptable level of risk” in exterior areas of the hospital campus, an arbitrator has concluded in a highly critical 40-page decision.
In the document released earlier this week, Kris Gibson has given Shared Health, the provincial authority responsible for HSC, 30 days to create a safety plan.
The president of the Manitoba Nurses Union, which filed a grievance last June on behalf of members concerned about dangers in and around HSC parking facilities, was pleased the arbitrator agreed. Carol Sanders has the story.
A panic alarm in the William Avenue parkade at the Health Sciences Centre (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological characters inspired by the Trojan War, officials said Thursday.
The hall, which features a mosaic floor, was uncovered as part of a project to shore up the areas dividing the excavated and unexcavated parts of Pompeii, the ancient city near Naples that was destroyed in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted.
The banquet hall was used for refined entertaining and features black walls, a technique that prevented the smoke from oil lamps from being seen, said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. The Associated Press has the story.
On this date
On April 12, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported defence minister Paul Hellyer threatened to take legal action against PC MP Terry Nugent if the latter repeated comments he made in Parliament comparing Hellyer’s actions to Adolf Hitler’s technique of using “the big lie.” Water began to fill part of the Winnipeg Floodway in prepartion for it being used for competitive rowing in the upcoming Pan-Am Games. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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