Your forecast
Cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and early this afternoon. High 13 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Quebec author Susan Doherty’s launches her latest novel, Monday Rent Boy, at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
Two Winnipeg residents who were notified a health worker snooped on their medical records — among a string of recent privacy breaches in the province — are demanding the system be made more transparent and accountable.
Daniel Hidalgo and Shontise McFadyen received identical letters from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in December, alerting them an employee had inappropriately viewed their personal health records dozens of times.
The pair are colleagues at CommUNITY204, a non-profit organization founded by Hidalgo to serve Winnipeg’s homeless population. Tyler Searle has the story.
Daniel Hidalgo, whose personal medical information was breached last year, is calling for more transparency in the health-care system. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail.
The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, is 1,300 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
Discovered over a century ago, its nickname derives from its striking appearance — a wispy pillar of gas and dust that resembles a horse rearing its head. The Associated Press reports.
This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane.” (NASA / The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 1, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the flood crest on the Red River had reached Emerson, and water levels in Winnipeg had already matched the peak of the 1948 flood, after a rise of more than a foot with 48 hours. A flash flood hit Morris, whose population heeded the mayor’s call to evacuate and half of whom had temporarily moved to Winnipeg and neighbouring towns. In Ottawa, the federal justice minister was expected to clairfy the government’s stand on the unfolding crisis in Manitoba, but no plan or promise of financial aid had yet been made public. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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