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Getting things back on track: Premier Brian Pallister says his Tory government needs more information before it decides whether to provide subsidies for air and sea shipments of supplies to Churchill. Flooding has cut off train service to the northern Manitoba community until next spring. North West Company CEO Edward Kennedy is calling on the federal and provincial governments to find a long-term solution. Nick Martin and Alexandra Paul, and Murray McNeill, report. READ MORE
Your forecast: It will be mainly cloudy today, with a high of 18 C and a 60 per cent chance of showers. There will be wind from the west at 30 km/h gusting to 50 late this evening.
In case you missed it
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSKen Friesen, executive director of Recycle Everywhere, tosses out a glass bottle into a recycling bin at Old Market Square in the Exchange District.
All bottled up: More Manitobans are recycling drink containers. Recycle Everywhere’s annual report states Manitobans recycled enough beverage containers to fill 1,042 train cars last year, and the province had the highest recovery-rate increase in North America from 2010 and 2016. Stefanie Lasuik reports. READ MORE
Frustrated over funding: As Canada’s 150th birthday approaches, New Democrat MP Daniel Blaikie says it seems Manitoba has been forgotten in terms of anniversary funding. The Elmwood-Transcona MP said his constituency staff have become frustrated trying to figure out when funding will be announced and for what projects. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Decisions delayed: The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba, which probes serious incidents involving police, announced its findings in six separate cases Wednesday. One report was completed more than a month ago, but the IIU said it could not release its decisions until Wednesday because of the government media blackout in place during the Point Douglas byelection. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Up next
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESWinnipeg Blue Bombers’ Andrew Harris
Thursday night football: The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Edmonton Eskimos at Investors Group Field tonight in their first home game of the pre-season. Head coach Mike O’Shea is expected to give many of the Bombers starters plenty of playing time, Mike Sawatzky reports. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. READ MORE
All that jazz: The International Winnipeg Jazz Festival starts today and continues until June 25. Its new artistic director, Michael Falk, has made a few additions to the event, including free entertainment at the Cube in Old Market Square throughout the festival. Erin Lebar reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe Misericordia Health Centre, the Urgent Care entrance.
“Tight” timeline: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority announced its timetable Wednesday for shutting down three emergency rooms and an urgent care centre as part of a massive health-care overhaul. NDP health critic Matt Wiebe says the WRHA is moving too quickly to satisfy political orders from the provincial government. Nick Martin reports. READ MORE
Bloody strange: A 29-year-old man is facing charges after a bizarre sequence of events Tuesday afternoon. City police say a bleeding man being chased by two women got into a stranger’s car and threatened the motorist, ordering her to drive off. He later got out and started running through traffic on St. Mary’s Road before allegedly trying to get into two more vehicles. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
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On this date
On June 15, 1998: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that former Winnipegger and Detroit Red Wings backup goalie Kevin Hodson said he’d bring the Stanley Cup to Winnipeg. A massive emergency airlift of supplies to northern Manitoba communities necessitated by the early thawing of the winter road system had cost $14 million so far. A study found that office workers were metaphorically drowning in nearly 200 messages a day, leaving them little time to get any work done. READ MORE
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