What’s happening today
A sign outside the Canada Revenue Agency is seen Monday May 10, 2021 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
CRA sending CERB letters: The Canada Revenue Agency will start sending letters today asking Canada Emergency Response Benefit recipients to verify they met eligibility rules. A round of similar letters was sent near the end of 2020. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Ukraine crisis: A spokesman for the Kremlin says there is “little ground for optimism” in talks with the U.S. about the buildup of about 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Oklahoma to execute man: Donald Anthony Grant is scheduled to receive a lethal injection in Oklahoma for killing two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. It would be the first execution in the U.S. this year and Oklahoma’s third since it resumed executions in October after a hiatus of nearly seven years. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Clash with Canucks: The Jets will try to end a five-game winless streak when they host the Vancouver Canucks tonight. Jason Bell reports on how there’s nothing to suggest the Jets are poised to make the playoffs. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of -17 C, wind chill as low as -34 and wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning.
In case you missed it
Jagdish Patel, wife Vaishali, daughter Vihanga, 12, and son Dharmik, 3, have not been heard from for nearly two weeks. (Photo courtesy of Amrut Patel)
Delving deeper into deaths: Police in the Indian state of Gujarat are trying to determine whether a travel agent in India helped four migrants who later died get to Canada. Their bodies were found in Manitoba just north of the U.S. border last week. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
A ‘real gateway to the village’: A six-storey building proposed in Osborne Village would include 90 apartments and space for seven ground-floor businesses. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 27, 1955: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 40 British seamen in two trawlers were feared lost off the coast of Iceland in a hurricane compounded by snow. A Winnipeg coroner’s jury found a 17-year-old boy had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound through “misadventure”; testimony indicated the youth had been playing Russian roulette with a friend’s gun. A spokesman for Ford Motor Company of Canada said an agreement had been reached to end a lengthy strike.
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