What you need to know
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Family’s financial troubles: Court records and anonymous sources show the family accused of staging a “hate crime” at their café was struggling financially. Ryan Thorpe reports.
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Protest planned: A controversial Palestinian-American activist will be part of a panel discussion tonight organized by the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. Mayor Brian Bowman asked the group to disinvite Linda Sarsour, who has been labelled as anti-Semitic by some Jewish groups. A protest will start shortly before the event.
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of 13 C and wind from the northwest at 30 km/h starting later this afternoon.
What’s happening today
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSLiberal leader Dougald Lamont
Grit members meet: The Manitoba Liberal party’s annual general meeting starts this afternoon. Members will debate 25 policy resolutions on topics ranging from health care to francophone rights. Larry Kusch reports.
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Trump talks guns: U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence will speak at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Indianapolis. America’s largest gun-rights organization is struggling with infighting, bleeding cash and facing a series of investigations into its operating practices, The Associated Press reports.
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In case you missed it
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFederal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was at the McNally Robinson ‘atrium’ to launch his new book, “Love and Courage” Thursday afternoon in Winnipeg.
Singh speaks: About 150 people turned out for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s book tour event last night. Few, if any, high-ranking members of the provincial NDP were there, Bill Redekop reports.
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Deal dashed: The province has rescinded an agreement with the Manitoba Metis Federation that has been in effect since 1987, halting hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual payments. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
On this date
On April 26, 1997: Flood coverage dominated the front page of the newspaper with residents of Sanford and La Salle being put on 24 hours notice to evacuate after a 24-kilometre gap in a dike was noticed; the house at 4269 Pembina Hwy. was lost to flood waters; three houses on Scotia Street were ordered to evacuate; the city warned half the homes in Winnipeg were at serious risk of having raw sewage flood their basement; and the peak was projected to reach Winnipeg on May 5. READ MORE
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