What’s happening today
Parker lands plans: The city’s property committee will today hear an appeal by Gem Equities after a plan for housing on the Parker lands was rejected. City planners nixed the rezoning and subdivision plan, saying it doesn’t comply with rules for housing near rapid-transit stations.
Makeover for medical clinic: The Charleswood Medical Clinic, which shut down in 2016, is reopening today after a $2-million renovation. Nine doctors have signed on to work out of the space, including three who formerly worked at the clinic, which will eventually offer sports therapy, physiotherapy and psychiatry. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Israel blamed for attack: Russia and the Syrian government are blaming Israel for a missile attack on an air base in the war-torn Middle East country. Fourteen people were killed, a war-monitoring group says. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be mainly sunny with a high of 1 C (yes, you read that correctly, it will be above the freezing point) and wind at 20 km/h early this afternoon.
In case you missed it
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESSMourners comfort each other during a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honour the victims of a fatal bus accident in Humboldt, Sask. on Sunday.
Transforming tragedy: Melissa Martin has a column on the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that killed 15 and a wounded 14, a tragedy that has rocked the nation’s hockey community. “The Broncos are all someone’s sons,” she writes. “They are also, in a way, all of the hockey world’s kids.” READ MORE
Taking over transportation: David Patman, the city’s new manager of transportation, says his department is “in the process of rebuilding trust.” He replaces Luis Escobar, who left the city amid controversy over what public works chairman Coun. Marty Morantz called a “rogue” corridor route. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
TREVOR HAGAN / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESThe Winnipeg Jets will need goalie Connor Hellebuyck to maintain the all-star form he displayed all season in order to replicated their success in the playoffs.
Playoff preview: Reporters Jason Bell and Mike McIntyre have a preview of the Jets-Wild playoff series. The schedule for the series was confirmed last night, and tickets for games 1 and 2 will be available later this morning. READ MORE
Trending now
Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESSA man holds a sign while listening as other protesters opposed to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline extension defy a court order and block an entrance to the company’s property, in Burnaby, B.C.
Trans Mountain: The future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was cast in doubt on Sunday as Kinder Morgan Canada suspended all non-essential activities and related spending on the project in the face of mounting opposition from British Columbia. READ MORE
On this date
On April 9, 1988: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that prime minister Brian Mulroney personally intervened in a minority language rights dispute in Saskatchewan, saying that Ottawa would offer money to protect the linguistic rights of the province’s francophone minority. A Manitoba farmer who lost his leg sought to establish an association to provide practical and moral support for the growing number of disabled farmers in the province. READ MORE
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