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Mainly sunny skies with a high of 23 C and a low of 11 C.
What’s happening today
The province will send an emergency alert test message at 1:55 p.m. More information about the test alert can be found here.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ CFL rookies and quarterbacks are heading to rookie camp today. Full training camp kicks off this Sunday at IG Field.
It’s World Lupus Day. Shelley Cook spoke with Michelle Gazze, a Winnipeg woman whose family came from Guyana, was diagnosed with lupus six years ago at age 30.
Today’s must-read
Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen isn’t backing a three per cent pay bump awarded last year to the president of Manitoba Public Insurance amid concerns with its operations, saying changes to the Crown corporation’s board could be imminent.
On Tuesday, the Steinbach MLA and minister responsible for the public auto insurer was challenged by NDP critic Matt Wiebe to explain why MPI chief executive officer Eric Herbelin received a $11,300 raise in 2022 — the same year it was revealed the cost of modernizing its information technology systems had ballooned to $289 million from $128.5 million. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen said the government is ‘absolutely not defending’ raises provided to Herbelin, saying the PCs have issued directives to MPI because they are concerned with operations at the corporation. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On May 10, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported two 18-year-old men from Steinbach died in an air crash after their rented plane spun into a road adjacent to the local airfield. Floodwaters of the Assiniboine River overflowed and backed into a gully under the roadway at Warren’s corner (about 60 km west of Winnipeg), stopping east and west traffic on the No. 1 highway for three hours. Between 20,000 to 25,000 employees in greater Winnipeg could be affected by a threatened railway strike, union officials estimated.
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