Your forecast
Rain mixed with snow ending this morning then cloudy with 30 per cent chance of drizzle. Wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h late this afternoon, with a high of 9 C.
What’s happening today
At the Manitoba Museum at 7 p.m., University of Winnipeg historians Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore will launch their new book, mmm…Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat, based on their years-long oral history project about food consumption and production in Manitoba. The book includes stories, photos, maps and recipes collected through archival research and interviews with home cooks and restaurateurs. Eva Wasney has the story.
From left: Kimberley Moore, Kent Davies and Janis Thiessen hit the road in a modified food truck to learn about Manitoba’s food history. (Supplied)
Love will be in the air at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location, starting at 7 p.m. as romance authors Tessa Bailey and Yulin Kuang roll into town for a two-pronged book launch.
Bailey is bringing her new novel Fangirl Down, which follows a bad boy pro athlete as he falls for one of his biggest fans. Kuang, meanwhile, is bringing How to End a Love Story, described as “a sexy and emotional enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to pull on your heartstrings.” For more information, click here.
Today’s must-read
A judge has dismissed a motion by accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki to quash one of four murder charges against him just two weeks before he is set to stand trial before a jury.
Skibicki has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the May 2022 slayings of three Indigenous women — Morgan Harris, Rebecca Contois and Marcedes Myran — as well as a fourth as-of-yet unidentified woman killed in March 2022, who Indigenous leaders have given the name Buffalo Woman.
Skibicki’s lawyers argued Tuesday the charge involving Buffalo Woman should be quashed as there is both no body and no name to identify her, making the count a “nullity,” or a charge of no legal effect. Dean Pritchard has the story.
On the bright side
A Celebrity Apex cruise to the Caribbean this month turned into a rocking Newfoundland kitchen party when about 500 people from the province happened to be booked on the same ship.
Pamela Pardy and her fiancé go on about two cruises a year, but she says there was something special about hearing Newfoundland phrases like “me ducky” on her latest seven-day voyage, which set sail April 6.
She started to suspect she wouldn’t be the only Newfoundlander on board when she began seeing social media posts from friends and friends of friends saying they, too, would be on the cruise. The Canadian Press has more here.
Newfoundlanders aboard a Caribbean cruise had a Newfoundland party on the main pool deck. (Supplied)
On this date
On April 17, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the construction of the Disraeli Bridge could prove much cheaper than expected for the provincial government because contractors were bidding as low as one-third the province’s estimated cost. Bear cubs at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, having awoken somewhat leaner from hibernation, amused themselves by climbing atop the fences of their enclosure or squeezing between the bars. A masked bandit held up the mail car on a train headed to Sydney, N.S., stealing some money and locking employees in a washroom, but missed a big money shipment by one day. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
