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JEN DOERKSEN/WINNIPEG FREE PRESSElder Alma Kakikepinance transfers embers from a sacred fire started for McKay a couple days prior to the sacred fire at her vigil. Kakikepinace said bringing the embers has spiritual importance for the vigil.
Sagkeeng mourns: Columnist Melissa Martin visited Sagkeeng First Nation on Thursday for a vigil for homicide victim Serena McKay, 19, whose killing was videotaped and shared on Facebook. “The world is wrestling with that right now, with how ever-present digital eyes turn their gaze into the heart of human darkness.” READ MORE
Your forecast: The anonymous pundit who pens Head Start whoops with excitement when we can report weather news that will ensure a great weekend. Today’s high will be 8 C, with a mix of sun and cloud, and the wind from the north at 30 km/h. But, even better, the weekend will be wonderful, sunny with highs of 12 C on Saturday and 11 C on Sunday and, unlike last weekend, no snow.
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Judge offers fatherly advice: Remember news pictures of a young woman in a white mask holding a replica handgun to her head while she stood in traffic at Portage and Main? She appeared in court on Thursday and, when her history of mental illness was disclosed, she got fatherly advice from Judge Murray Thompson: “Be more confident about who you are. You’ve got a lot of strengths that you don’t recognize. You’re a good person. Just take it as it comes, OK?” Katie May reports. READ MORE
Jets draft prospects: Will the Winnipeg Jets see a repeat of last year’s draft miracle, which garnered rookie sensation Patrik Laine? Sportswriter Jason Bell interviews Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff about what fans can realistically expect from this year’s draft. READ MORE
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Checking us out: Provincial and territorial delegations from across Canada are in Winnipeg this week to monitor preparations for the 2017 Canada Summer Games The chefs de mission will tour sport venues, sites of athletes’ village and receive an update from the games host society. The Free Press will talk to the visitors to get their impressions.
Kindness Challenge: A pay-it-forward crowd of West Kildonan Collegiate Grade 11 students and Minister of Families Scott Fielding will hand out 2,000 kindness idea cards and 2,000 bracelets, challenging pedestrians to perform acts of kindness, and then ask the recipients to pay it forward to others. Called The Kindness Challenge, the big-hearted project starts at 8 a.m. at Cityplace, Graham Avenue entrance, main level. Reporter Jane Gerster will be there to chronicle the kindness.
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DAVID ROSSITER / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESWinnipeg has been chosen as a location for foster families for its guide-dog program.
Puppy up: Canadian National Institute for the Blind has chosen Winnipeg as a location to introduce foster families into its guide-dog program. CNIB covers all the costs of raising the pups, from the time they come into a foster family’s home at the age of about eight weeks until they are a year to 15 months old. At that point, the puppies will enter formal guide dog training process. Alexandra Paul reports. READ MORE
Vans replacing two fire trucks: The city is replacing two of its larger, aging, two-person fire trucks — used primarily to deal with emergency medical calls in the downtown area — with smaller vans that can do a better job at less than half the cost. The vans will be painted red and outfitted with appropriate emergency lights. They’ll go into service by August, based out of the downtown Ellen Street No. 1 station. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
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BRANDON WADE / ASSOCIATED PRESS / NFLPAFormer No. 1 overall pick Bruce Smith (right) presents a Cleveland Browns jersey to Myles Garrett while his mother Audrey (left) and father Lawrence look on at the draft party in Arlington, Texas.
#NFLdraft: The first round of the National Football League draft took place on Thursday night and after the Browns took Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett with the No. 1 overall pick Thursday night, eight of the next 11 picks were offensive players in a surprising opening day. READ MORE
#NAFTA: First, Donald Trump threatened to rip up NAFTA. Then he didn’t. This week he did again. Now, he’s saying he won’t. But maybe, he says, he’ll change his mind again and rip it up if he can’t get a good deal. What’s going on? READ MORE
On this date
On April 28, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a blizzard lashed Winnipeg, with no end in sight to below-freezing temperatures. In east Kildonan, six girls ranging in age from six to 11 were reportedly indecently assaulted at knifepoint; two juvenile suspects, aged 13 and 16, were arrested. In Ottawa, the government’s opinion was that the United States had jumped the gun regarding deploying its planes over Canada’s Arctic to monitor a potential surprise attack from the U.S.S.R. READ MORE
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