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Free Press Head Start for April 22
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Good morning.
A Manitoba man has been fined $2,000 and prohibited from owning firearms for five years after he manufactured homemade illegal “silencers” for use in his own in-house shooting range. Dean Pritchard reports.
Pope Francis “was like an elder brother to me, showing the way,” one Winnipeg archbishop said after the pontiff’s death. “It was not him saying, ‘Go there,’ but saying, ‘Come with me,’” Albert LeGatt of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface said of the way the pope, who died Monday, put his words into action. John Longhurst has the story.
— David Fuller
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Cloudy, with rain beginning near noon. Wind becoming east at 20 km/h early this morning. High 13 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
In London, Ont., jury selection is expected to begin today in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
When Linda Daniels and Pope Francis looked into each other’s eyes at the Vatican three years ago, she hoped he would recognize the suffering of Indigenous people who were forced into residential schools as children. Daniels, a member of Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba, said the pope nodded as they shook hands.
“I looked into his eyes and said in my mind, ‘Feel our hurt; feel my pain,’” she told the Free Press, after Francis died at 88 on Monday. “I feel that he did.” Daniels was emotional after learning about the pope’s death. She read an online news report when she happened to wake up at 3 a.m. Chris Kitching has the story.
Former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine (centre) and residential school survivor Linda Daniels from the Long Plains First Nation (right), presented a leather stole — a liturgical vestment — to Pope Francis at the Vatican in April, 2022. (Vatican Media)
On this date
On April 22, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Columbus, a fire at Ohio State Penitentiary claimed the lives of 300 prisoners, with 300 more at risk to die of related injuries; the fire had been set by inmates at the prison. In London, Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England since 1913, died at the age of 80. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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Pope Francis — a consistent voice for the poor
With the death of Pope Francis, we have all lost a strong and dependable voice for the poor and disadvantaged, a man willing to voice disapproval of the actions of the most powerful nations in the world, and a church leader who managed to maintain humility even as he rose to the highest ranks of church office.
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