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What’s happening today
A play based on the autobiographical bestseller by American author Joan Didion opens tonight at 7:30 at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Portage Place (300-393 Portage Ave.)
The Year of Magical Thinking chronicles Didion’s grief after her husband dropped dead at the dinner table a month before their 40th anniversary — while their daughter was in hospital in an induced coma. For tickets and more information see wfp.to/yYU.
The Winnipeg Jets face the Nashville Predators at the Bridgestone Arena, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Chronic staff shortages in Manitoba’s health-care system are being blamed for a year-over-year spike in critical incidents in hospitals and other settings.
The death of an emergency-room patient who experienced a delay in treatment, a person who died by suicide while in care and surgery on the wrong body part were among 112 critical incidents, including 22 deaths, listed in three new quarterly reports released by the province Friday. Chris Kitching has the story.
(Wayne Glowacki / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A new exhibit from Archives of Manitoba is perfectly mapped out. About three dozen historic maps, some dating as far back as 1709, will be on display at 200 Vaughan St., Friday and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Kathleen Epp, keeper of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, said it’s a rare opportunity for the public.
“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time,” Epp said Monday. “Maps are fascinating documents, but a lot of them are just so big. Even here we don’t have the space normally to look at them side by side so this is also a treat for us.” Kevin Rollason has the story.
Kathleen Epp, keeper of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, displays a Red River Colony map from 1836-38 in the Hudson’s Bay Archives collection at the Manitoba Archives. (John Woods / Free Press)
On this date
On April 9, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported John Bracken’s government withstood an effort in the legislature to do away with the province’s two per cent wage tax, with 29 members of various parties voting to retain the tax against 25 seeking to end it. Manitoba’s tax on imported beer was denounced by MLA L. St. G. Stubbs as a subterfuge meant to accomplish what could not be done legally; MLA H. F. Lawrence defended the tax as protection for local breweries against the “slave labour” and predatory wealth of the Ontario and Quebec brewing monopolies. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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