Your forecast
Cloudy, clearing early this afternoon. Wind from the south 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming west 20 gusting to 40 this afternoon. High 15 C, wind chill -9 this morning. UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
😂 The Winnipeg Comedy Festival kicks off today at various venues and runs until April 26. Tickets are available online. Conrad Sweatman has a preview here.
In the 25th year of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and his sixth as artistic director, Dean Jenkinson is proud to put Canadian comics in front of a national audience. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
No one is at rest in Peguis First Nation Sunday morning.
The entire community seems to be moving in tandem to get as many sandbags filled as possible while they wait — and worry — about impending flooding.
Across from the Peguis Multiplex Centre, 24-year-old Tatum Wahpoosywan is part of a team shovelling sand into sandbags, tossing them onto the flatbeds of trucks travelling around the community and back. Someone has put on music, Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” on a small Bluetooth speaker, and coffee in Styrofoam cups is being passed around.
Peguis First Nation, along with volunteers and aid organizations outside of the community, have been working around the clock since last week to try to mitigate rising water from the Fisher River, after the Interlake community was warned water levels are forecast to be similar to the last severe flood in 2022. Malak Abas has the story.
People move sandbags to create a wall around a home on Peguis First Nation Sunday (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
A North End warehouse has been converted into a multi-purpose design studio where students can sew ribbon skirts, print 3D models and launch businesses.
The Winnipeg School Division celebrated the grand opening of its Waabishkaa-Makwa Lab last week.
The first-of-its-kind “cultural learning lab” embeds Indigenous teachings into project-based learning activities.
For more than a decade, the 4,500-square-foot space inside R.B. Russell Vocational School had been collecting dust and housing broken equipment.
“This is part of truth and reconciliation — Indigenous and non-Indigenous people sharing their gifts and creating together,” said Elaine Mayham, a knowledge keeper in the inner-city division. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
Marney Stapley (left), co-ordinator of the new Waabishkaa-Makwa Lab, and WSD knowledge keeper Elaine Mayham at R.B. Russell Vocational School. (Ruth Bonneville /a Free press)
On this date
On April 20, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ottawa, a Liberal MP called for legislation that would prohibit the adoption of daylight saving time throughout Canada. The justice minister argued the reconstitution of the Canadian Wheat Board as compulsory was beyond the powers of the federal governement. In Genoa, Switzerland, agreements were forecast to affect geopolitics for the coming century, with Britain and other allies from the Great War on one side and Germany, backed by Russia, on the other.
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