Your forecast
Clearing early this morning, with wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 10 C, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Colorado Avalanche at Canada Life Centre for Game 2 of a first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, starting at 8:30 p.m. Mike McIntyre has a story on how the Jets hope to avoid repeating last year’s pattern in the first round of playoffs, when the team won Game 1 but was quickly eliminated from the series. Read more here.
The Winnipeg Jets and Colorado Avalanche in Game 1 on Sunday. (Fred Greenslade / The Canadian Press)
Kyne Santos will launch Math in Drag, published in March by Johns Hopkins University Press, at 7 p.m. at Little Brown Jug (336 William Ave.) as part of a Canadian tour; the Winnipeg event is being presented by Willow Press (214 Osborne St.).
Santos has been creating educational and fun math videos online for some time (see @onlinekyne on Instagram for examples). The event is free, and open to all ages.
Today’s must-read
Efforts to curb the theft of catalytic converters in Winnipeg have proven successful, with provincial legislation and police enforcement slamming the brakes on the once-rampant crime.
Data from the Winnipeg Police Service shows the number of reported catalytic converter thefts dropped to 12 cases citywide so far in 2024, down from 236 in roughly the same period last year.
The reduction came in the wake of the Scrap Metal Act and a concerted police effort to crack down on the crime. Tyler Searle has the story.
Efforts to curb the theft of catalytic converters in Winnipeg have proven successful. (Ethan Cairns / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Something to listen to
On the latest episode of Niigaan and the Lone Ranger, Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara talks about overseeing the provincial government’s largest budget and fixing a health-care system that is gridlocked and short-staffed.
On the bright side
Biologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers across the globe say there is a reasonable possibility the vast majority of creatures on Earth are sentient in some way.
The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness was released Friday with 39 signatories from universities from Canada to Australia who say there is “at least a realistic possibility” that all vertebrates and many invertebrates have consciousness.
The declaration rests on recent studies that show garter snakes can recognize their own scent, crows can report what they see, octopi can avoid pain and fruit flies can sleep — and they sleep best when they’re with other fruit flies. The Canadian Press reports.
A two-year-old female orca calf at the Little Espinosa Inlet near Zeballos, B.C., on Friday. (Chad Hipolito / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On April 23, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in China, a Communist fifth column had taken control of Nationalist-abandoned Nanking, setting the stage for a triumphant Communist military march into China’s capital. The fourth session of Manitoba’s 22nd legislature concluded, after sitting 51 days and passing 101 pieces of legislation; many MLAs predicted a provincial election would be held before June 15. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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