Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness with a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. A special air quality statement has been issued and there will be widespread smoke this afternoon. Expected high is 23 C, with a low of 7.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Ice, coming off a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Thunderbirds in Game 3 of the Western Hockey League championship on Tuesday, face Seattle again tonight at 9:05 p.m. at the Accesso ShoWare Center.
Today’s must-read
The death of a 90-year-old woman at a Winnipeg personal care home has been deemed a critical incident, after the facility failed to vaccinate her against the flu. Kevin Rollason has the story.
Fred Douglas Lodge (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On May 17, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Winnipeg’s $2-million public improvements program, the largest since the war, got underway as crews began working on pavement and sidewalks, and would include sewers and water main work in coming days; the schedule was double that of 1947. Speaking at a public rally of 1,500 people in the Odean theatre, S.J. Zacks, president of the Zionist Organization Canada said Canadian Jews would finance the construction of a parliament building for the new state of Israel. The Free Press began publishing excerpts from The Pickersgill Letters, featuring prewar and wartime correspondence by the late Capt. Frank H. D. Pickersgill of Winnipeg. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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