COVID-19 crisis
School buses are shown at a depot in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., west of Montreal, Sunday, May 10, 2020. Quebec schoolchildren will be entering a vastly changed environment this week when they head back to classrooms that have been closed since mid-March because of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Back to school: In Quebec, some children are returning to class for the first time since March as elementary schools and daycares reopen outside the Montreal area today. READ MORE
Weird weekend: Shoppers headed to local malls for the first weekend since they reopened. It remains a very different experience, Taylor Allen and Kevin Rollason report. READ MORE
Charities feeling financial pain: Nearly 70 per cent of charities have had a huge decrease in revenue since the pandemic began, a new survey says. John Longhurst reports. READ MORE
Going to Disneyland: Shanghai’s Disneyland is open for business, becoming the first such theme park to reopen its gates since March. READ MORE
Dispensing with drug limit: Manitoba’s 30-day limit on prescription drug refills — introduced in response to potential drug shortages — has been lifted, effective today. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny with a high of 9 C, wind from the north at 10 km/h increasing to 20 km/h later this morning, and wind chill as low as -10 this morning.
More on pandemic
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSOliver Spencer and his mother Sherri Brayshaw-Spencer with an Oak Park High School grad lawn sign outside their home in Winnipeg Sunday. The signs were put on the lawns of students who are graduating amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sign of the times: Parents of some Grade 12 students, who are unable to celebrate with their classmates next month, are buying lawn signs to let people know their children are graduating. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
Dedicated to dogs: Doug Speirs spoke to volunteers who continue to go to the Winnipeg Humane Society nearly every day to walk the pooches. READ MORE
Property and the pandemic: Year-to-date sales for all property types are down only two per cent compared with the same period in 2019 despite a decrease in home sales in April. Nadya Pankiw reports. READ MORE
Grumbling and griping: In his latest column, Free Press publisher Bob Cox says complaining about the pandemic is healthy. READ MORE
Coronavirus Q&A: Alan Small has his weekly answers to readers’ questions. READ MORE
In other news
FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2013, file photo, actor Jerry Stiller arrives at the special screening of HBO’s Documentary “Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley” at The Apollo Theater on in New York. Comedian veteran Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP)
Seinfeld actor Stiller dies: Jerry Stiller — the comedian who regained his fame in the 1990s playing George Costanza’s high-strung father, Frank, on the hit comedy Seinfeld — has died at 92. READ MORE
Clampdown in Hong Kong: More than 200 people were arrested in anti-government protests in Hong Kong. READ MORE
‘Serious incident’ Sunday: City police are expected to release more information today about a “serious incident” at Polo Park on Sunday.
On this date
On May 11, 1990: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that an all-party House of Commons committee hammered out a plan to break the deadlock over the Meech Lake Accord, by proposing constitutional allowances for certain provinces to have veto power over reforms to the Senate, and by eliminating a proposal that Ottawa be given power to preserve and promote Canada’s French/English duality. In Winnipeg, the 120-year-old Ogilvie Mill was destroyed by fire, putting 50 people out of work. An advertisement to promote new tourist attraction The Forks in a magazine mistakenly showed a photo of the site when it was still a CN rail yard.
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