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A mix of sun and cloud, becoming cloudy near noon. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h. High 2 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
📚 This year’s Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC) annual author event features Winnipeg lawyer, author and anti-racist educator Zilla Jones at The Forks Market events space, second floor, 7 p.m. Tickets are $10.50-$21, available online.
🎭Holland, a new play by Trish Cooper, opens tonight at the Tom Hendry Warehouse, 140 Rupert Ave.
When she started working on the script that became Holland nearly a decade ago, Cooper’s pen was guided by a simmering rage against the bureaucratic machine.
As the mom of a sledge-hockey star with spina bifida, Cooper had grown accustomed to navigating a never-ending series of hurdles to ensure her son’s access to what she calls “secret resources” that only seemed to reveal themselves when hidden passcodes were spoken, phone calls were made and intricate dances were performed. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
Trish Cooper was inspired to write Holland while trying to access resources for her child. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Staring her in the eyes, with his weapon raised and ready, a Winnipeg police officer repeatedly demanded Eishia Hudson, who was behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle, show him her hands before firing the round that killed the 16-year-old.
Const. Kyle Pradinuk spent hours testifying about the seconds before the shooting on April 8, 2020, on the third day of the provincial inquest that’s probing the life and death of the Indigenous teen.
Pradinuk was among the first officers on the scene when the stolen Jeep driven by Hudson jumped the median near Lagimodiere Boulevard and Fermor Avenue, lost control and slammed into a nearby Ford truck, he said. Tyler Searle has the story.
WPS Const. Kyle Pradinuk, who fired the shot that killed 16-year-old Eishia Hudson, spent hours testifying during the inquest Wednesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
The University of Manitoba and Red River College Polytechnic are making it easier for engineering technologists to earn a degree.
Against the backdrop of a career fair, representatives from both post-secondary institutions gathered at U of M on Wednesday to celebrate their expanded partnership. The schools finalized a series of agreements that give recent RRC Polytech graduates direct entry into the Price Faculty of Engineering.
“We’ve all heard stories — sometimes, from our own students — about individuals who’ve left the province to pursue engineering degrees elsewhere,” said Derek Kochenash, who oversees RRC Polytech’s school of skilled trades and technologies. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
Marcia Friesen, dean of engineering at the University of Manitoba, celebrated her faculty’s new partnership on Wednesday. (Maggie Macintosh / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 5, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported there was a threat of a countrywide railway strike. The U.S. Navy launched the Vanguard rocket, which climbed into the sky for 70 seconds before breaking in two and exploding. Prime minister John Diefenbaker announced the possibility of building a causeway to join Prince Edward Island to the mainland and harbour works in St. John’s, Nfld. Search our archives for more here.
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