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Opioid crisis: City paramedics last year administered the fentanyl antidote naloxone 715 times, compared with 419 times in 2015. The provincial government is being urged to declare opioid overdoses a public health crisis. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: Truth be told, the anonymous writer of Head Start is grumpy about the weather today because the spring temperatures have coaxed dandelions to erupt on the lawn like cancerous tumors. And Mrs. Head Start is environmentally conscious and won’t let us use herbicides, if there are any in Manitoba that have not yet been banned, so this evening we shall get on our knees and dig out these demonic dandelions by their infernal roots, while the other guys get to watch the NHL playoffs. Today’s high is 13 C, with a mix of sun and cloud, and wind from the northwest at 30 km/h early in the afternoon.
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Victim faces sex abuser: A high-ranking Winnipeg martial arts instructor faces up to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing three of his female students over the past decade. Two of his victims have attempted suicide. One of his victims looked her abuser in the eyes in court on Tuesday and said: “I will never forget what you have done to me.” Katie May reports. READ MORE
Transit police proposed: Does Winnipeg need to create a transit police force to improve safety for drivers and riders? A group of city councillors thinks so. That’s one of six initiatives proposed by the six councillors on Tuesday. They also propose a zero-tolerance policy for fare evaders, with heavy fines for those who refuse to pay. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Up next
Stars on ice: A who’s who of the Canadian figure skating world dons the blades at the MTS Centre tonight. The lineup includes: four-time World Champion Kurt Browning, 2014 Olympic Silver Medallist Patrick Chan, two-time Olympic Silver Medallist Elvis Stojko, Olympic Bronze medallist Jeffrey Buttle, reigning two-time World Champions Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford and Canadian Champion Kaetlyn Osmond. The show starts at 7 p.m.
Welcome back Evelyn Hart: Internationally-acclaimed Canadian ballet icon Evelyn Hart joins the Royal Winnipeg Ballet tonight in the world première of James Kudelka’s Vespers, a new ballet choreographed to Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers, 1610. The show runs through Sunday with performance at 7:30 p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
A sign outside Royal School alerts parents to the new attention to parking enforcement. (Boris Minkevich / Winnipeg Free Press)
A fine greeting from the city: If an envelope from the City of Winnipeg appears in your old-fashioned home mailbox this week, and you open it with curiosity to find a photograph of the rear end of your vehicle, you’ve been nabbed. The envelope will also contain a fine from $70 to $300. You’re one of 280 drivers fined in the first week of a crackdown on vehicles stopped in no-parking spots such as school zones. Scott Emmerson reports. READ MORE
Keeping bees: There will be a public hearing this fall to gauge support for a proposal to allow hobby beekeeping throughout the city, including residential areas. Currently, hobby or small-scale beekeeping is only allowed in the downtown area. Commercial apiaries require a conditional use permit, through a public-hearing process, in industrial and agricultural areas on the city’s fringe. READ MORE
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JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESB.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark
#bcelxn17: In British Columbia, the Liberals narrowly won to form the first minority government in the province in 65 years, with the Green party holding the balance of power for the first time in Canadian history. The Liberals under Christy Clark won 43 seats, the NDP took 41, and the Greens surged to three seats. READ MORE
On this date
On May 10, 1958: The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Winnipeg city council were at loggerheads over the football club’s 1958 contract; complicating matters was a proposal from aldermen that the contract guarantee free tickets to aldermanic directors. In Ottawa, prime minister John Diefenbaker promised representatives would “stay up all night” if necessary to solve the problem of a looming firefighters’ strike. Great Britain, France and the United States planned to begin preliminary talks in Moscow within a week if Russia did not take the initiative in that time, after the Soviet foreign minister summoned ambassadors from the three countries and delivered messages to each. READ MORE
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