Your forecast
Sunny with local smoke becoming hazy this morning. Expected high is 26 C with a low of 13 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Ice face the Seattle Thunderbirds at 9:05 p.m. in the Accesso ShoWare Center. The best-of-seven championship series is tied 1-1 as the series shifts to Seattle for Games 3, 4 and 5.
Seattle Thunderbirds centre Brad Lambert carries the puck into Winnipeg’s zone during third-period action on May 13. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free press files)
Today’s must-read
Clifford Joseph “was no angel,” but that didn’t mean he deserved to die after he was caught stealing from his neighbour, a jury was told Monday. Eric Wildman, 36, is on trial charged with first-degree murder in Joseph’s June 2021 killing. Wildman and Joseph, 40, lived on neighboring properties near Stead, about 90 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. Dean Pritchard has the story.
RCMP investigators search for evidence on Eric Wildman’s property for his connection with the homicide of Clifford Joseph, who was Wildman’s neighbour, near the RM of St. Clements in 2021. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
An endangered Mediterranean monk seal, dubbed “Yulia,” was spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and is turning heads and causing a media buzz. These seals are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with as few as 350 mature specimens estimated to exist in the wild. Its populations have dwindled due to historic seal hunting, fishing, and habitat destruction.
Israel’s Nature and Park Authority has fenced off the section of beach where Yulia has come ashore to rest, and dispatched volunteers to monitor her from a distance. The Associated Press reports.
Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal, rests on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, (Ariel Schalit / The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 16, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Dauphin RCMP were holding three men and searching for two more suspects wanted in the slaying of an 81-year-old woman who was killed when intruders broke into her home. Arrangements between Italy’s fascist premier Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler were said to be extensive, judging by a recent speech given by Mussolini. A general election in Saskatchewan was called for June 8. Search our archives for more here.
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