Your forecast
Sunny early this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud with 70 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon, with a risk of a thunderstorm late. Wind from the west at 40 km/h gusting to 60. High 20 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Diane Morrisseau and Elisabeth Brannigan will launch the book One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 7 p.m. The book chronicles Morrisseau’s childhood at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential day school and the torment and turmoil she experienced at the hands of an abuser over the next 18 years. The event will be hosted by Darren Courchene.
Today’s must-read
Every day has been hard for Sukhwinder Gill since his wife was killed by a drunk driver nearly a year and a half ago.
The 48-year-old father of 15-year-old twins is still in shock after Sarbjit Gill, 42, was killed in a collision at about 12:20 a.m. on Dec. 10, 2022.
“I loved her so much, and she loved me,” Gill said in a victim impact statement read in a Winnipeg court Tuesday.
The driver, 22-year-old Nicholas Primo Baldovi was handed a six-year prison sentence and 10-year driving ban by Court of King’s Bench Justice Ken Champagne after Baldovi pleaded guilty to one count each of dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving causing death. Erik Pindera has the story.
Sarbjit Gill’s husband, Sukhwinder Gill (centre), along with their children Eknoor (GAP hoodie) and Balnoor (light grey hoodie), family and friends, leave the Law Courts building after sentencing Tuesday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Researchers in British Columbia have set their sights on virtually eliminating organ rejection by using advanced genetic testing to better match patients with kidney donors.
Dr. Paul Keown, lead researcher for the pilot project and a University of British Columbia specialist in immunology and transplantation, said the new technology involves genetic sequencing at the molecular level to significantly reduce the risk of a recipient’s immune system rejecting a donor kidney.
“We hope to see rejection almost disappear,” he said of the project,partly funded by Genome British Columbia and Genome Canada through a partnership with Canadian Blood Services. The Canadian Press has more here.
Nancy Verdin hopes a pilot project aimed at genetically matching recipients with donor kidneys will give others a chance at a “normal life.” (Handout / The Canadian Press / Nancy Verdin)
On this date
On June 5, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ontario, premier George Drew and his government were swept back into power on a tide of Progressive Conservative votes that reduced the opposition to as little as 23 seats in the 90-seat legislature. In Winnipeg, four people had died and a fifth was near death as a result of a drinking party in which police believed defrosting fluid used for de-icing airplane wings was the liquid those involved had drunk. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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