What’s happening today
CPPencils on a teacher’s desk. (Davie Hinshaw / Charlotte Observer / The Associated Press files)
Province on prioritization: Health officials are set to announce the areas of the province where adult residents and people who work in public-facing jobs, such as teachers, will be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination. Firefighters and police officers will also be prioritized, the health minister said last week. READ MORE
Queen thankful for ‘kindness’: Queen Elizabeth II has thanked the public for all the “support and kindness” in her first remarks since Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday. The statement was posted on social media on her 95th birthday. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Economic outlook: The Bank of Canada will release its economic outlook for the coming months amid the third wave of the pandemic. The bank will also announce inflation estimates and what is happening to its key interest rate target. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Decision on delay: A judge in Vancouver is set to release her decision on a request by Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers to delay the final series of hearings in her extradition case. READ MORE
Deadly disruption: Twenty-two patients died in Nashik, India, after a hospital’s oxygen supply was interrupted. The city is in Maharashtra state, which is the worst-hit by the latest surge in COVID-19 cases in India. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries ending before 8 a.m., a high of 13 C, wind chill as low as -9 this morning and peak winds from the southwest at 20 km/h beginning later this morning.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSRyan Chan, executive director of Exchange District Pharmacy, with a vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
‘How we value people’: Groups that represent people with disabilities are frustrated prioritization was ignored when the provincial government allowed all people 40 or older to get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Ontario premier isolating: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is isolating after a member of his staff who was in close contact with him tested positive for COVID-19. Ford has tested negative, a statement from his office said. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
More clubs quit: Four more football clubs in Italy and Spain have dropped out of a controversial proposed Super League, effectively killing the project. Six English teams had already backed out. Only Spanish clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona remain officially involved. READ MORE
On this date
On April 21, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that flood waters of the Assiniboine River moved slowly eastward, engulfing a huge expanse of country in the Baie St. Paul area, north of the river. The Marquette road was covered by three feet of flowing water, and the level at Marquette was 18 inches. In Winnipeg, city council called for tenders to build an underpass along Portage Avenue in St. James; the estimated cost was $207,000, of which the federal grade separation fund would cover $100,000. In Moose River, N.S., a call went out for experienced miners who were unmarried and willing to risk their lives as weary volunteers struggling to free two men entombed in a mine collapsed from exhaustion. In London, Princess Elizabeth, second in line to the British throne, turned 10 years old.
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