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What’s happening today
A sea of vibrant colours and intricate designs greeted the more than 120 guests who attended the opening of Lupa ay Buhay | Land Is Life on July 5.
Curated by 25-year-old Ana Ilagan with the assistance of Andrea Reichert from the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library, the exhibition offers a mesmerizing journey through the rich craft traditions of the Philippines. The event is on until Aug. 28 at Shirley Richardson Craft Gallery, 329 Cumberland Ave. Thandi Vera has more here.
Ana Ilagan, communications and engagement assistant at the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library, curated Lupa ay Buhay | Land is Life, an exhibition showcasing Filipino culture. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg doctor, hailed as a hero after he saved a nursing supervisor from being stabbed to death, has lost a lawsuit claiming he was fired without cause from the Women’s Health Clinic.
“There was no wrongful termination,” King’s Bench Justice Ken Champagne ruled in a written decision released last week that dismissed Dr. Ken Hahlweg’s entire lawsuit.
Hahlweg, a longtime abortion provider at the Winnipeg clinic, alleged he was the target of an “underhanded and vindictive” campaign to force him out of the clinic and was passed over for promotion because he was a man, before being terminated without cause in 2020. Dean Pritchard reports.
Dr. Ken Hahlweg has had his wrongful-termination lawsuit dismissed. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A 17-year-old human-rights activist and volunteer has received national recognition for his work with Manitoba inmates.
Baljot Rai, who graduated from St. Paul’s High School last month, is the recipient of the national Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and a Loran scholarship. Rai founded the One in All project, which supplies religious, spiritual and self-improvement resources to inmates in Manitoba prisons who practise minority faiths. Aaron Epp has more here.
Baljot Rai is the recipient of the national Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and a Loran scholarship. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On July 29, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Chicago, Winnipeg’s chief police constable Chris Newton told an international conference of law enforcement officers that imposing the death penalty on kidnappers would do much to stem the tide of abductions. Would-be globe-circling pilot Jimmy Mattern was greeted by a crowd of Winnipeggers at Stevenson airfield when he touched down from Regina on his way to New York, where he had embarked two months earlier attempting a solo round-the-world flight. Mattern’s solo craft had been forced to land near Anadyr, in Chukotka, part of the Soviet Union, where he was rescued by Indigenous people in the area. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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