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Sunny skies with a high of 20 C and low of 8.
What’s happening today
Rock and Roll Odyssey: A Musical Journey, which takes place at Centre culturel franco-manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd., 7-10 p.m., is hosted by local cover group Breaking News Your Band. The show is a fundraiser for Before the Bridge Senior K9 Rescue, a volunteer-run charity based in Stony Mountain dedicated to helping elderly pooches. For more information, click here.
Breaking News Your Band is hosting a fundraising concert in support of Before the Bridge Senior K9 Rescue. (Facebook)
The Winnipeg Ice, trailing the Seattle Thunderbirds in the best-of-seven WHL playoff series 3-1, face off for a must-win game at the Accesso ShoWare Center at 9 p.m.
(Supplied / Seattle Thunderbirds)
Today’s must-read
Frozen for more than a decade, Manitoba’s standard foster-parent allowances remain among the lowest in Canada, driving concerns that caregivers will be forced to make the “agonizing” decision to stop providing stable homes for children in need. Chris Kitching has the story.
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On this date
On May 19, 1978: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a 21-year-old man was charged with non-capitol murder after charred human bones were found at the city’s West St. Paul garbage dump; the discovery came after a six-day search for a missing 11-year-old girl. The Manitoba Police Commission decided to hold a public hearing into an appeal by a woman who alleged she was indecently assaulted by a Winnipeg detective sergeant the previous year. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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