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Mainly cloudy with a high of 24 C and a low of 13 C.
What’s happening today
A study has found a search for the remains of two First Nations women at Prairie Green Landfill could take up to three years and cost $184 million. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and representatives from Long Plain First Nation will hold a news conference on the study today, reports The Canadian Press.
The Winnipeg Ice will face the Seattle Thunderbirds in the Western Hockey League final at the Canada Life Centre at 7 p.m. Game 2 goes Saturday at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A new vision to revitalize Winnipeg’s downtown pitches options to create new green space, calm traffic, reimagine Graham Avenue and attract new residents among its key goals. Described as a blueprint to redevelop downtown, a preliminary version of CentrePlan 2050 released Thursday sets a target to ensure at least 350 new residential units get built in the city centre each year until 2030, followed by 500 annually after that. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
The proposal floats ideas to create “ideal neighbourhood streets” with safe crossings for foot traffic, street trees, pedestrian lighting, on-street parking and narrow road lanes meant to help slow traffic. (David Lipnowski / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Last week, reporter Eva Wasney and her partner flew east with a veritable petting zoo: one wiggly black puppy named Cinder, a young tabby named Phoenix and a mama calico named Pom Pom along with her five fluffy kittens.
The animals had been rescued by K9 Advocacy Manitoba and matched up with adoption agencies in Ontario. After rave reviews from friends who had volunteered for the local non-profit, the pair signed up to act as transporters. Wasney writes on her experience helping the pets find their forever homes.
Eva Wasney and her partner, Neal Leithead, hold kittens from K9 Advocates Manitoba as the crates are scanned before going on a plane to Toronto. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On May 12, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the leader of a 10-man expedition that failed to reach the North Pole by “motor toboggan” was at Winnipeg’s airport and would try again next year. Winnipegger Margaret McTavish Konantz — the Canadian chairwoman of the United Nations children’s fund and a former Liberal member of Parliament — died. She was “one of Canada’s most widely travelled women” and the first woman MP from Manitoba. Pan-American Games and construction company officials denied that the new Olympic-size $3 million pool might not be ready for the Canadian swimming and diving teams’ trials set for July 1.
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