What’s happening today
Health-care workers cheer during Game 1 at Bell MTS Place. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Friday evening faceoff: The Jets host the Canadiens in Game 2 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series at 6:30 p.m. With Scheifele suspended and forward Paul Stastny and defenceman Dylan DeMelo questionable to return from injury, the Jets have some holes in their lineup. Jeff Hamilton reports. READ MORE
New COVID-19 numbers: Provincial health officials will hold their regular Friday news conference on the pandemic. ICU admissions aren’t expected to peak until next week, but Premier Brian Pallister said Thursday he doesn’t know if it’s “helpful” to discuss the “worst-case scenario.” Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Weather
Ruth BonnevilleIvy Van Niekerk, 3, at the spray pad at Vimy Ridge Memorial Park on Thursday. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Your forecast: Sunny with a 30 per cent chance of showers this evening and risk of a thunderstorm, a high of 34 C, humidex of 37 and peak winds from the southwest at 30 km/h and gusting to 50 beginning later this morning.
What’s happening this weekend
CPWinnipeg Jets’ Trevor Lewis scores one of his two goals of the game against Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jake Allen during the second period. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Clash in Quebec: The Jets will travel to Montreal to face the Canadiens in Game 3 of their playoff series at 5 p.m. CT Sunday.
Awards anniversary: The 50th annual Juno Awards will air at 7 p.m. CT on Sunday. READ MORE
Set for semifinal: Canada plays the U.S. at 2:15 p.m. Saturday in a semifinal game at the world hockey championship in Latvia. Canada advanced with an overtime win over Russia on Thursday. The championship final will be played Sunday. READ MORE
Trump to take stage: Donald Trump, who has been increasingly acting like he plans to run for another term as U.S. president, will speak at North Carolina’s annual state Republican Party convention on Saturday. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
CPPolice officers outside Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, where people have gathered for vigils in past years to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. (Vincent Yu / The Associated Press)
Arrest on Tiananmen anniversary: Police arrested an organizer of Hong Kong’s annual candlelight vigil marking the deadly 1989 crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and warned people not to attend the banned event. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
‘Very safe’: Deputy chief public health officer Dr. Jazz Atwal says allowing the families of Jets players at playoff games in Winnipeg is safe despite acknowledging the province doesn’t know whether they have been vaccinated for COVID-19. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 4, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in Ottawa, the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada suspended the Canadian Seaman’s Union; after five days of closed meetings a committee found the union had violated the TLC’s constitution and failed to accept its responsibilities as an affiliate. Manitoba MLA G.L. Thorvaldson, whose charges in the legislature prompted a commission inquiring into police methods, faced cross-examination by counsel representing police at the inquiry. Winnipeggers prepared to celebrate the city’s 75th anniversary.
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