Your forecast
Sunny and hazy with a high of 29 C and a low of 10.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave for a week-long trip to Asia, where he will make his first official visit to South Korea and attend the G7 leaders’ summit in Japan. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Back Downtown — a campaign to encourage people to return to the city’s core — is offering office workers five days of freebies during its upcoming Spirit Week event. The fun begins today with oversized board games at Old Market Square and Central Park between noon and 1:30 p.m. More events at various times and locations take place until May 19. For more information, click here.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s consumer watchdog will consider whether to hike electricity bills by four per cent over the next year as hearings begin on Manitoba Hydro’s latest general rate application. The Crown corporation is asking the Public Utilities Board to approve an average two per cent rate increase that would take effect on Sept. 1, 2023, followed by a second two per cent increase effective April 1, 2024. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Manitoba Hydro Place (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
An initiative that began last fall has started to grow and might soon see wild rice, a culturally important crop, become a staple on dinner tables.
Researchers Uche Nwankwo and Shirley Thompson, both from the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba, have been working with Brokenhead Ojibway Nation for two years. Fifty pounds of wild rice was planted at Beaconia Marsh in Brokenhead — about 64 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg — by community members, along with Nwankwo and Thompson, in October. Emmanuel Nwaneri has the story.
University of Manitoba researchers and members of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation boat out at Beaconia Marsh to assess progress of a wild rice restoration project. (Supplied)
On this date
On May 15, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported an annual fishing trip on Moose Head Lake, Maine, turned tragic for 10 men from Brockwood, Mass., when their motorboat sank, killing nine of the fishermen and their guide; only one man survived. In a 10-to-seven vote, members of Winnipeg city council refused to change their stance on the question of non-interference with the proposed development of the Seven Sisters power site by the Manitoba Power Corporation. In Gilbert Plains, those in favour of allowing local sale of beer won against those opposed to it; 165 voted in favour while 92 voted against it. Search our archives for more here.
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