What’s happening today
THE CANADIAN PRESS/John WoodsWinnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice yells at an official during game against the Minnesota Wild.
Clash continues: The Jets face the Minnesota Wild in Game 4 of their second-round series in St. Paul at 7 p.m. Paul Wiecek has a column on Jets head coach Paul Maurice and the team’s response to Tyler Myers’ injury. READ MORE
Talking transition: Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service Chief John Lane is scheduled to appear before the city’s executive policy committee today. He will discuss his report on transferring the provision of ambulance services to the provincial government.
A first in France: Justin Trudeau will become the first Canadian prime minister to address the French National Assembly. After his speech, he will head to London to meet with British PM Theresa May and the Queen. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: It should be a terrific Tuesday, with double-digit temperatures. Today will mainly sunny with a high of 10 C and wind from the east at 20 km/h early this afternoon.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSPlayers raise their sticks at a Manitoba Hockey vigil for the Humboldt Broncos at My Church.
Hockey homage: More than 130 members of the city’s hockey community attended a vigil at a Wilkes Avenue church last night for those killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. “Everybody’s son was on that bus,” said hockey mom Karen Jacques, who organized the vigil. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Open intersection, expert says: New York’s former transportation commissioner says if officials can transform Times Square to make it more pedestrian-friendly, there’s no reason people shouldn’t be able to walk across Portage and Main. Janette Sadik-Khan and other transportation experts are in Winnipeg for the inaugural Mode Shift festival. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Former FBI director James Comey
Comey’s chronicle: James Comey’s tell-all memoir about his time as FBI director under U.S. President Donald Trump is being released today. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership already tops Amazon’s list of best-selling books. READ MORE
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Harry Anderson
Actor Anderson dead: Harry Anderson, who played an off-the-wall judge, amateur magician and Mel Tormé fan on the 1980s TV comedy Night Court, was found dead Monday at age 65. He also starred in Dave’s World and had a recurring role as a con man on Cheers. READ MORE
On this date
On April 17, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported that one man was killed and two injured in an automobile accident at the corner of St. Cross Street and Cathedral Avenue in Winnipeg. The federal minister of railways and canals, speaking in Winnipeg, said that work in connection railway line to Churchill and development of the port there had been proceeded with as expeditiously as possible. READ MORE
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