COVID-19 crisis
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESSegovia restaurant announced on its Instagram account Wednesday it is going out of business.
So long, Segovia: The popular Osborne Village tapas eatery, already shut down because of the pandemic, has permanently closed. The announcement came one day after another restaurant, Tony Roma’s on Nairn Avenue, closed. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
PM on parks: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson are expected to announce today plans to begin reopening federal parks and historic sites. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Superbug setback: Microbiologists say the copious use of hand sanitizer and disinfectant could be setting us back in the battle against superbugs. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Writing on the wall: With the news fall classes at the University of Manitoba will be held remotely and the University of Winnipeg expected to make the same decision, all signs are pointing to football and soccer seasons being cancelled. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
Pandemic silences program: Providence University College has cancelled its music program because of the pandemic. The Otterburne institution’s provost said discussions about the program’s future had been taking place for some time. John Longhurst reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of rain ending soon and showers beginning near noon, a high of 13 C, and wind from the northwest at 10 km/h increasing to 20 km/h early this afternoon.
More on pandemic
The yellow tape is coming down at school playgrounds across Winnipeg. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Play time: Louis Riel School Division today becomes the latest local school division to open its playgrounds. Winnipeg School Division, which has 78 schools, will be one of the last to reopen its structures Monday. Eva Wasney reports. READ MORE
Seeking new suppliers: Drug shortages have prompted the federal government to search for new ways to increase the supply of medications used for patients on ventilators. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Readers report: Check out our latest instalment of readers telling their own pandemic stories. READ MORE
In other news
Simvale Sayat / The Associated PressStrong waves batter houses along the coastline of Catbalogan city, Western Samar province, eastern Philippines caused by typhoon Vongfong, Thursday.
Strong typhoon slams country: A typhoon hit the eastern Philippines earlier today after authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Pipeline protests deal: Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and representatives of the federal and British Columbia governments will sign an agreement today to formally end anti-pipeline protests and blockades by First Nations across Canada. A memorandum of understanding was inked in March. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On May 14, 1910: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Halley’s Comet was still visible in the early hours of the morning; travelling at 1,686 miles per minute, it was approximately 26,900,000 miles from Earth and heading away; the Rev. C. W. Finch reported that at Thornhill, Man., it had been visible to the unaided eye for about a week. In Phoenix, B.C., the strike against the British Columbia Copper Company had been declared off by the Greenwood Union of the Western Federation of Miners. In New York, the former governor of the state, his wife, and their 20-year-old son were charged with smuggling upon their arrival on the Lusitania, from Europe; the items they were accused of smuggling were “wearing apparel,” discovered in three of their trunks.
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