Your forecast
Rain ending this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Wind from the south at 40 km/h gusting to 60 diminishing to 20 this morning then becoming light early this afternoon. High 18 C. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the St. Louis Blues at Canada Life Centre in Game 5 of a first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, starting at 8:30 p.m. Jets forward Gabe Vilardi is set to make his return to the roster after a five-week injury absence. Mike McIntyre has the story.
Winnipeg Jets’ Gabriel Vilardi (Matt Slocum / The Associated Press files)
Author Nita Prose’s charming and wildly popular housekeeper Molly Gray is back for one last mystery in The Maid’s Secret; Prose will be in Winnipeg tonight at 7 p.m. to launch the book at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location, where she’ll be joined by CTV Morning Live’s Rachel Lagacé. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
Nita Prose (Dahlia Katz photo)
Today’s must-read
A violinist played Amazing Grace as people joined a Winnipeg vigil to honour the people who were killed and injured when a suspect drove into a crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver Saturday.
More than 200 people attended the remembrance ceremony at the Philippine Canadian Centre of Manitoba on Keewatin Street Tuesday evening. The local Filipino community wanted to gather to share their sorrow.
“Our bloodline knows hurt. Our bloodline has seen violence before,” New Democrat MLA Jelynn Dela Cruz told the mourners. Aaron Epp has the story.
People attend a vigil for those murdered at the Lapu Lapu festival in Vancouver on the weekend at the Philippine Canadian Cultural Centre of Manitoba, Tuesday. (John Woods / Free Press)
On this date
On April 30, 1941: The Winnipeg Free Press reported premier John Bracken said the federal government would have Manitoba’s full cooperation on the budget, but declined to say whether his government would renounce provincial income and sales taxes for the duration of the war. British prime minister Winston Churchill said the British expeditionary force in Greece, fighting odds of five to one, had evacuated 45,000 out of 60,000 men. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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