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A mix of sun and cloud, with a 60 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 increasing to 50 gusting to 70 this morning. High 24 C. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
📖 Longtime local playwright and actor Debbie Patterson launches Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabled Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage, a collection of essays and dramatic works she co-edited, at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
For the price of a restaurant breakfast, a pack of smokes, can of bear spray and a knife, Matthew Kadyniuk threw away his long-pursued career as a Winnipeg police officer.
Kadyniuk, one of several officers caught up in an undercover investigation that targeted Winnipeg Police Service constable Elston Bostock — who is now in prison — was sentenced Wednesday to two years less a day of house arrest.
“I truly acknowledge my actions were wrong and I have no excuse for them,” said Kadyniuk as he sniffled and held back tears. “I take full responsibility. I’m aware of how my actions have affected the trust the public has in the police service, and for that I am truly sorry… I was placed in a position of trust with the public and that trust was broken.” Dean Pritchard has the story.
A hidden camera shows Matthew Kadyniuk, driving, and Elston Bostock counting and splitting money obtained from a backpack used in a staged robbery call. (Manitoba Courts)
On the bright side
On an unseasonably warm winter day in January 1916, a 27-year-old man walked into the enlistment office in Winnipeg and volunteered to fight in the First World War that was ravaging Europe.
The only name he provided was Baboo. The official paperwork required a “Christian name,” but the Sikh man didn’t have one.
Born in Punjab, India in 1888, he served for four years in a cavalry unit in Madras before immigrating to Canada. He was married and had a seven-year-old daughter named Margaret.
Despite the racism and barriers many immigrants faced at the time, Sikh soldiers still chose to enlist and serve in the First World War, says Prabhnoor Singh, a spokesperson for Sikh Heritage Manitoba.
Baboo’s attestation papers are part of a new exhibit on display in schools in Winnipeg to commemorate the overlooked stories of Sikh army veterans who have served in Canada’s military. The exhibit is titled A Sikh Century of Service and was brought to Winnipeg by Sikh Heritage Manitoba and the Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha Foundation. Josiah Neufeld has more here.
Visitors view the exhibit at Maples Collegiate. (Sandeep Singh photo)
On this date
On May 14, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the whereabouts of former Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler remained in doubt, with unconfirmed reports of his capture by the Allies as well as those stating he was at large in Germany. Nominations for candidates in Canada’s June 11 federal elections closed; Manitoba fielded 76 contestants for the province’s 17 seats in Parliament.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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