Your forecast
Sunny, with wind becoming south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 17 C, wind chill -7 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Local historian Gerald Friesen launches his new book The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location. Friesen will be joined in converation by Don Norquay.
Today’s must-read
Lions Housing Centres and the Lions Club of Winnipeg have been accused of inflicting “organizational elder abuse” on seniors because of the way they sold Lions Place to a for-profit real estate company in 2023.
The accusation is listed in a new report that states the two groups failed to investigate alternatives to selling the 610 Portage Ave. property and kept its tenants, many of whom had lived there for decades, in the dark about the transaction. Kevin Rollason has the story.
Lions Place (John Woods / Free Press files)
On the bright side
NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.
The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data. The Associated Press reports.
This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1. (NASA)
On this date
On April 24, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the federal government planned to raise unemployment insurance benefits and increase rates of contributions for insured persons and employers. Also in Ottawa, officials of the Canadian Tax Foundation told the Commons estimates committee that a proposed capital gains tax was not a good idea for Canada. A late spring storm across the prairies was hailed as at least a temporary respite from drought conditions in many areas. The Winnipeg Traffic Commission was considering a policy of allowing motorists to turn right at red lights. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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