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Mainly sunny skies with a high of 25 C and a low of 10 C.
What’s happening today
Pascale St-Onge, the federal sport minister, is expected to announce changes to improve accountability and encourage sustainable culture change in Canadian sports at a press conference this morning.
Today’s must-read
People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was tight-lipped Wednesday on speculation he is entering the Portage—Lisgar byelection, promising an “important” announcement when he visits the riding Friday. Montreal-based Bernier, who is facing COVID-19 pandemic-related charges in Manitoba, previously hinted he may run for the seat vacated this year by former Conservative Party MP and interim leader Candice Bergen. Chris Kitching has the story.
People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier is scheduled to visit the Manitoba riding of Portage—Lisgar Friday, fuelling speculation that he intends to run in the riding’s upcoming byelection. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
David Bishop spends the school day as a mild-mannered custodian, but before the final bell rings, he grabs his chess boards and pieces and begins his second role.
“The Queen’s Gambit” is playing out in real life in Maine, where this custodian is coaching his schools’ chess teams to acclaim. The Associated Press reports.
Custodian David Bishop cleans pencil marks from desks in the Hampden Academy library in Hampden, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty / The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 11, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the fishing season for pickerel and northern pike opened in Manitoba. In Edmonton, two dozen marbles and three dozen homemade guns made of pipe and wood were seized by police in an investigation into a shooting. The guns were designed to fire marbles using firecrackers as the propellent. Two men and a child were killed on a farm in St. Benedict, Sask., when the wall of a granary collapsed, burying them beneath 50 tons of grain. U.K. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s government decided to permit British ships to use the Suez Canal.
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