Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind from the southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 22 C. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
🌎 Today marks Earth Day, the global event intended to spur action to support a healthier planet. A growing movement of people and organizations interested in “rewilding” urban spaces, restoring plants to city landscapes, is helping insect populations, including bees and butterflies, survive and thrive. The Canadian Press has more here.
Adam Barnes, founder of Rewilders Toronto, a community-based ecological initiative, tends to a planted pollinator garden in Toronto, on April 16. (Chris Young / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
For the first time in 16 years, golfers won’t be able to grab a Salisbury House Nip at two city-owned golf courses this summer, as the local staple learned suddenly it was being replaced with a U.S.-owned food service mega-company.
Salisbury House operations manager Dave Petrishen said the company had been contracted by the city to provide beer carts and a “mini Salisbury House restaurant” selling Nips, hot dogs and other concessions at the Windsor Park and Kildonan Park golf courses for the last 16 years.
They reapplied for the contract after the City of Winnipeg issued a request for proposals earlier this year for a four-year food service agreement at both golf courses, set to begin April 1. Petrishen said management for the 95-year-old restaurant chain was told last weekend the city would be going with Aramark Canada, the Canadian arm of a multibillion-dollar U.S. firm, instead. Malak Abas has the story.
Dave Petrishen, operations manager for Salisbury House. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
Louise May has been tapping the trees at the St. Norbert Arts Centre for 37 years, extracting the nectar that becomes maple syrup.
May began making syrup as a way to connect with the trees and continue in the footsteps of the Trappist monks who originally planted the maple trees more than a century ago.
Recently, the endeavour has taken a more spiritual turn as May began collaborating with kookum Christine Cyr and sharing the syrup for a strawberry heart medicine used during Sundance ceremonies, which include a four-day fast. Mikaela MacKenzie has more here.
Louise May (right) with kookum Christine Cyr (left) tap a tree at the St. Norbert Arts Centre. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On April 22, 1952: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Regina, animal health officials announced a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the first recorded in the southern Saskatchewan infected area since March 8. Flood fears grew in Swift Current, Sask., and Kansas City. In Manitoba, coming rains and cooler weather checked the epidemic of grass and brush fires.
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