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What’s happening today
In Ottawa, members of the Liberal and Conservative backrooms will step into the spotlight to testify today before a parliamentary committee that’s probing allegations of foreign election interference. The Canadian Press reports.
Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
And U.S. President Joe Biden formally announced today his plans to run for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish the job” he began when he was sworn into office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. The Associated Press has the story.
Today’s must-read
A judge has authorized a plan to keep the Manitoba Clinic’s 36 remaining physicians from leaving the insolvent facility by paying them retention bonuses. Doctors who continue to practise at Manitoba’s largest private clinic while it looks for a buyer will get $1.3 million in retention payments over the next six months. The Manitoba Clinic, which is under creditor protection, can’t afford to lose any more doctors as it gets ready for a sale of its Sherbrook Street building. Katie May has the story.
The Manitoba Clinic (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On April 25, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported U.S. federal agents were investigating in Massachussettes and southern New Hampshire after more than $20,000 of the Lindbergh baby’s $50,000 ransom was found in the area; one man sentenced in the kidnapping and murder of Col. Charles Lindbergh’s infant son had already been executed. In Ottawa, a parliamentary committee heard accusations the Canadian Wheat Board was selling grains at unreasonably low prices. In Halifax, one of the men rescued from the Moose River gold mine needed special medical treatment for “trench foot” after being trapped underground for 242 hours. Search our archives for more here.
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