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Free Press Head Start for April 14
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Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party members will attend an annual general meeting today and Saturday, where party brass hope to rally the troops, present leader Heather Stefanson in her best light and showcase new candidates who are replacing the departing old guard. Carol Sanders has the story.
It could take years to resolve the legal battle over the Manitoba government’s pandemic purchase of N95 masks. The government is being sued for US$6 million, plus interest and damages, by a U.S. company that claims Manitoba owes it for a 2020 order of five million masks that were later deemed unsuitable for hospital use. Katie May reports.
— David Fuller
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Your forecast
Cloudy, with rain beginning this morning and ending this afternoon. Expected high of 7 C and a low of 0.
What’s happening today
In Ottawa, a committee tasked with studying alleged foreign interference in Canada’s last two elections is set to hear from the prime minister’s chief of staff today. Katie Telford is scheduled to be a witness at the procedure and House affairs committee this afternoon, to talk about what she knows about Chinese meddling in the 2019 and 2021 elections. The Canadian Press reports.
Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Katie Telford (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Accusations of intimidation, profane language and physical violence were launched against Opposition Leader Wab Kinew, following a tense exchange at the Manitoba legislature Tory cabinet minister Obby Khan says left him feeling threatened and unsafe. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
NDP Leader Wab kinew (left photo) and PC Minister of Sport, Culture and Heritage Obby Khan (right photo) (Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On April 14, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported prime minister Lester Pearson emphatically told Parliament he had no intention of calling a snap election that year. The Manitoba legislature’s law amendments committee ordered the City of Winnipeg and CP Rail to negotiate an 83-year-old agreement that exempted the railway from paying taxes to the city in perpetuity; if an agreement could not be reached by autumn, the province would take action on the issue in the coming legislative session. Sunday movies and other entertainment were to be permitted in Winnipeg if a pending bylaw change received enough votes at city council. Search our archives for more here.
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Dean Pritchard:
Ghost-gun maker handed harshest prison sentence in Canada
A Winnipeg man who created and trafficked so-called ghost guns on the city’s black market has received what is believed to be the longest prison sentence in Canada for weapon offences involving a 3D printer.
Blake Ellison-Crate, 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday to 13 firearm offences — including manufacturing and transferring restricted firearms and possession of 3D-printed firearm frames — and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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Parts of southern Manitoba under flood watch
Provincial forecasters have issued an overland flood watch for a large part of southern Manitoba, including Winnipeg and areas east of Highway 75.
Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure’s flood forecast centre said Thursday the recent warm temperatures have started the spring thaw and surface runoff in most of the southern and central parts of the province.
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Fresh opinions
Editorial:
Let’s do our best not to match the ever-growing political mess to the south of us
“Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and be prepared to be amazed.”
That was the pitch of carnival barkers, back when there were things you could experience that actually could leave you amazed.
Back when there were things that seemed impossible. Things that were unbelieveable.
Things were different then.
It was back when, for example, politicians were held to certain standards: if they were caught in a direct lie, their careers were essentially over.
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Tom Brodbeck:
Lack of health-care centre security, lack of respect
It’s little wonder nurses are leaving Manitoba’s health-care system in droves.
The provincial government’s failure to staff hospitals with specially trained security officers to protect front-line workers from on-the-job violence is another in a long list of reasons.
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