What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performs in September. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Songs of sorrow, hope: The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is putting on a free concert focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Manitobans. The performance, called Manitoba Remembers: A COVID Elegy, begins at 7 p.m. Alan Small reports. READ MORE
‘Engagement plan’: Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Scott Johnston is holding a news conference on an “engagement plan for older adults” at a site in Charleswood this morning.
Poilievre’s policies: Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre will make an announcement related to the Bank of Canada in Ottawa later this morning.
Again facing elimination: The Toronto Raptors, who trailed their first-round NBA playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers 3-0 and have cut the deficit to 3-2, host Game 6 this evening. READ MORE
Picking players: The first round of the NFL draft is happening in Indianapolis tonight. READ MORE
Weather
A house in Transcona is reflected in a flooded roadway on Wednesday. (Shannon VanRaes / Winnipeg Free Press)
A new low: Another Colorado low is set to hit southern Manitoba beginning Friday night. Chris Kitching reports. READ MORE
Your daytime forecast: Increasingly cloudy with a high of 8 C, wind chill as low as -10 this morning and wind from the south at 20 km/h. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement on the expected major low-pressure system, the third in as many weeks. READ MORE
Pothole problems
Chris Thompson had no trouble reeling in the laughs when he cast a fishing line into a giant pothole on Route 90 Wednesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Thompson cast a lure into the depths of a sizable pothole
New fishing spot: Chris Thompson has been reeling in laughs while pretending to fish in a pothole on Route 90. Katlyn Streilein reports. READ MORE
City can’t keep up: City crews have been filling around 700 potholes a day, but this spring’s endless cycle of freezing and thawing keeps creating new holes and reopening patched ones. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
Idea full of holes: Dan Lett’s latest column is on a city councillor’s promise to demand council find money for an emergency pothole repair program. READ MORE
In case you missed it
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CPGoaltender Eric Comrie is congratulated by his teammates after earning his first NHL shutout in a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday. (John Woods / The Canadian Press)
‘Cool moment’ for Comrie: Jets backup goalie Eric Comrie recorded his first NHL shutout on Wednesday night. Mike McIntyre reports on the home win against the Philadelphia Flyers. READ MORE
‘No one’s happy with it’: A city councillor says Winnipeg needs matching funds from the higher levels of government to upgrade its sewer system over the next 20 years. Nearly 60 million litres of raw sewage was allowed to discharge into the Red River during heavy rains last weekend. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Raiders extend series: The Winnipeg Ice failed to clinch their first-round WHL playoff series in Saskatchewan last night. The Prince Albert Raiders had trailed the series 3-0. Mike Sawatzky reports. READ MORE
On this date
On April 28, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a blizzard lashed the city, bringing a drop in temperatures that was expected to reach 0 F (-17 C) overnight; this followed unseasonably high temperatures two weeks earlier. Two youths, aged 13 and 16, were being held by police after six girls, ranging in age from six to 11, were indecently assaulted at knifepoint in East Kildonan. A U.S. proposal to conduct aerial surveillance in the Arctic, coming after joint talks with Canada but announced by the U.S. alone, was seen as “jumping the gun.” READ MORE
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