Your forecast
Sunny with increasingly cloudy skies this afternoon, with a high of 9 C and a low of 0.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 1 of their first-round NHL playoff series in Nevada at 8:30 p.m. CT. Mike McIntyre has columns on the Jets’ recent successes and their arrival in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, businesses in downtown Winnipeg are preparing for an influx of customers for the Jets whiteout parties.
The crowd at a whiteout street party in 2018. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is asking people to pause for a moment of silence today at noon and again on Wednesday to remember the 22 people killed three years ago during the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. The Canadian Press reports.
A couple pays their respects at a roadblock in Portapique, N.S. in April 2020. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Body parts found Saturday next to the Red River in South Point Douglas were sealed, package-like, in orange plastic, the man who made the grim discovery told the Free Press Monday. Chris Kitching has the story.
Herman Holla said he and another man discovered the human remains in a wooded section of riverbank near Curtis Street and Higgins Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On April 18, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Berlin, following the League of Nations’ condemnation of Germany for violating the re-armament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, rumours abounded that chancellor Adolf Hitler would now denounce the entirety of the treaty. In British Columbia, miners at the Corbin camp near Crow’s Nest Pass seeking recognition of their union clashed with police in a riot that was the first such disorder of a three-month-long strike. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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