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Mainly sunny. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 13 C, wind chill -5 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Former teacher and human rights advocate Art Miki will launch Road to Justice at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 7 p.m., where he’ll be joined by illustrator Geoff Miki as well as Fortunato Lim, president of the Asian Heritage Society for Manitoba. More information here.
Today’s must-read
In April, the Manitoba government approved the City of Winnipeg’s request to use rodenticides in nine city parks to control rising populations of Richardson’s ground squirrels.
The city is employing less-controversial forms of rodenticide than strychnine. One is Rozal, an anticoagulant bait that causes internal bleeding; the other is RoCon, a foam asphyxiant that causes suffocation in burrows.
The city said it would immediately remove carcasses, post signage 24 hours before and after deploying rodenticide and check sites to ensure non-targeted creatures aren’t among the dead.
The Winnipeg Humane Society, Animal Justice and Winnipeg biologist James Hare have filed an appeal against the permit, arguing the methods risk harming other wildlife and pets, and inflict a slow, agonizing death on the beleaguered burrower. Conrad Sweatman has the story.
The gopher has become a cute city-park critter, but it hasn’t always enjoyed an adorable public image. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
Manitobans will once again be able to enjoy tea and scones while taking in history — the tea room at the Captain Kennedy House has reopened after a 10-year absence.
The Heritage Tea Room is reopening after a $1.4-million restoration of the historic building on the Red River south of Lockport, Environment and Climate Change Minister Mike Moyes said Thursday.
The stone house, a provincial heritage building, was built for Capt. William Kennedy, an Arctic explorer, Métis community leader, and Hudson’s Bay Company employee, in 1866.
It closed because of structural problems in 2015. Kevin Rollason has more here.
Musette Fowke operates the Heritage Tea Room at the historic Captain Kennedy House in St. Andrews which recently re-opened after renovations. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On May 1, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Progressive Conservative MLA Arthur Moug criticized provincial expenditures supporting the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre in St. Boniface as “a lot of money to re-elect one minister” adding that francophones were fewer in number than people of English, German and Ukrainian descent and asking, “where is the Anglo-Saxon cultural centre?” In Washington, D.C., U.S president Richard Nixon accepted responsibility for the Watergate scandal while saying those guilty of burglary at the Democratic party headquarters the previous year should be criminally prosecuted.
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