Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Expected high is 12 C with a low of 2.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Vegas Golden Knights and must win tonight or be eliminated from the NHL playoff series. Game time at the T-Mobile Arena is 9 p.m. CT. Mike McIntyre has a column on factors in Winnipeg’s favour. As Jeff Hamilton reports, whether Nikolaj Ehlers will play tonight is still a game-time decision.
Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (John Locher / The Associated Press files)
Tonight at the Winnipeg Art Gallery: John (Bloody Jack) Krafchenko was a notorious, charismatic outlaw from the turn of the 20th century who emigrated to Manitoba from Romania. Krafchenko’s wild story inspired the 1984 book Bloody Jack by Manitoban poet Dennis Cooley. And now, Cooley’s book serves as the basis for a new song cycle of the same name by composer Michael Matthews, which makes its première tonight at the WAG at 7:30 p.m. Admission is pay what you can. For more information, visit gswell.ca.
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba government’s plan to bolster the burned-out health-care workforce with more than 300 Filipino nurses and aides could face delays as immigration negotiations drag on and a promised fast-track to license foreign nurses stalls. Two months after the province launched a recruitment mission in the Philippines, the two governments have yet to approve a framework to facilitate the departure of the 300 nurses and aides offered jobs in Manitoba hospitals and nursing homes. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Despite the regulatory changes, recruited nurses will complete most of the requirements once they arrive in Manitoba, according to Shared Health. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins planted a native totara tree Wednesday in Parliament’s grounds to mark the upcoming coronation of Britain’s King Charles III. The ceremony was an early start to a campaign to plant 100,000 native trees around New Zealand. The government has donated 1 million New Zealand dollars (US$613,000) to the effort. The Associated Press reports.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, left, and and Project Crimson chairman Joris De Bres pose after planting a totara tree in Wellington, Wednesday. (Mark Mitchell / New Zealand Herald / The Associated Press)
On this date
On April 27, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported external affairs minister Lester Pearson said the large inflow of U.S. capital into Canada was no threat to Canadian sovereignty. In Winnipeg, a youthful American who for a month duped officials at Misericordia hospital into thinking he was a graduate in medicine and worked in the casualty ward suturing patients, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of false pretences. Search our archives for more here.
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