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Brittney Langlais poses for portraits on her property near Garson, Manitoba on Thursday, May 9, 2019. Langlais is one of two first female players on the Manitoba Junior Baseball League. For Jason Bell story.
Winnipeg Free Press 2019.
Taking the mound: Pitcher Brittney Langlais will become the first woman to play in the Manitoba Junior Baseball League when she suits up for the Interlake Blue Jays in Stonewall tonight. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Result renews hope: A guilty verdict for the murder of Christine Wood has given some in the Indigenous community renewed hope for justice, Alexandra Paul reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny with a high of 17 C and wind from the south at 10 km/h, increasing to 20 km/h later this morning.
What’s happening today
Traffic note: Police are warning to expect traffic delays because of two protest walks between about 10 a.m. and noon. The Walk for Water ends at the legislature at about 11:30 a.m., while the Grandmothers Walk ends at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights at about noon.
Tariff hike takes effect: A tariff increase by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Chinese imports, from 10 per cent to 25 per cent, started early today. China says it will make “necessary countermeasures.” READ MORE
Uber rolls out: Ride-hailing app Uber makes its stock-market debut today. Uber’s initial public offering is at the lower end of the company’s targeted price range of $59 to $67 per share. READ MORE
In case you missed it
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESIn 2017-18, Manitoba registered a youth incarceration rate of 19 per 10,000 children — higher than any other province or territory in the country.
Behind bars: Manitoba has the highest rate of incarceration among the provinces and is imprisoning Indigenous people in greater numbers while national incarceration rates are decreasing. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Ramping down rhetoric: After criticizing Manitoba’s government for failing to use funding allocations, Ottawa is taking a softer tone with the provinces. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
On this date
On May 10, 2018: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the federal NDP were grappling with accusations that one of its female MPs had been accused of sexual misconduct. In Winnipeg, skating superstar Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue wowed the crowd ad Bell MTS Place as part of Stars on Ice. A public test of an emergency messaging system only reached half of cellphone users in Manitoba.
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