Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. Showers beginning near noon, with risk of a thunderstorm. Widespread smoke. Wind becoming east at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High 24 C, Humidex 29. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Dallas Stars at Canada Life Centre in Game 5 of a second-round Stanley Cup playoff series, starting at 8:30 p.m.
The Jets must win tonight or be eliminated from the playoffs. “We’ve got to take care of business here if we want this extended series,” Jets head coach Scott Arniel said Wednesday. “Now, our backs are against the wall and we’ve got to win our next game.” Ken Wiebe has the full story here.
Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel talks with players during a timeout against the Dallas Stars on May 7. (Fred Greenslade / The Canadian Press files)
The potential benefits of psychedelics, particularly around mental-health issues, has been thrust into the spotlight in recent years. In a new book published by Fernwood Publishing, two authors and academics explore whether corporations and the medical establishment are best-suited to lead the charge on psychedelics’ newfound mainstream appeal. Carleton University prof Jamie Brownlee and University of Winnipeg criminal justice prof Kevin Walby’s new book Psychedelic Capitalism launches tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
Two bodies were recovered from a wildfire-hit area northeast of Lac du Bonnet Wednesday, as officials warned the massive blazes that forced about 1,000 evacuations and destroyed properties wouldn’t be tamed easily in the coming days.
RCMP Supt. Chris Hastie said the bodies — believed to be a man and a woman — were found just off Wendigo Road when it was safe to search the area. “It is believed they succumbed to injuries sustained in the wildfire,” Hastie said at a news conference in Lac du Bonnet. Autopsies were scheduled.
RCMP were aware two people were trapped by the fast-moving fire Tuesday, but extreme conditions prevented emergency personnel from reaching them. Chris Kitching has the story.
Manitoba RCMP East District Commander, Superintendent Chris Hastie, at a press conference outside the Lac du Bonnet RCMP detachment Wednesday afternoon, after the RCMP recovered two bodies just off Wendigo Road. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Mykhailo Ivanov never thought he’d become a diehard hockey fan.
The 42-year-old had immigrated to Winnipeg a little over two years ago to escape the war in Ukraine. He didn’t know much about hockey, he said, but after he was given tickets to a Jets game he fell in love with the sport – and the community that comes with it.
“I like that kind of emotion and support from other fans, from the people nearby you,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s an important part of my life now.” The Canadian Press has more here.
Mykhailo Ivanov in Winnipeg (Supplied / Mykhailo Ivanov / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On May 15, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported astronaut Gordon Cooper, having embarked on the longest planned U.S. space flight, was given the go-ahead for at least seven of 22 planned orbits around the Earth, a mission expected to take 34 hours. Canada’s unemployment total dropped to 462,000 in April, down 87,000 from March and down 23,000 from April 1962. In Birmingham, Black civil rights leader Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth called on Alabama governor George Wallace to remove state troopers from the city, saying their presence undermined a biracial agreement on the city’s racial problems. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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