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A mix of sun and cloud. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h late this afternoon. High 15 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the St. Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center in Game 6 of a first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, starting at 7 p.m.
Winnipeg Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck (37) and Vladislav Namestnikov (7) defend the net against St. Louis Blues’ Jake Neighbours (63) in Game 4 on Sunday. (Connor Hamilton / The Associated Press files)
Manitoba’s Emerging Filmmakers Fest takes place at the Handsome Daughter, 61 Sherbrook St.Friday, 7 p.m., featuring 10 shorts, including such titles as Costanza’s Loop (Noah Riel Baldwin) and Panopticon (Stephen White and Levi Cook)
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Manitoba’s emergency rooms will use more non-nursing staff to check on patients in waiting rooms after a man died in the Health Sciences Centre ER in January.
Chad Giffin, 49, had been waiting in the province’s busiest ER for about eight hours when staff noticed his condition had deteriorated. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
His death on Jan. 7 led to a critical incident review, which produced 17 recommendations aimed at preventing similar deaths in ERs across Manitoba.
Among the 17 recommendations, the province said training was implemented for 15 health-care aides to conduct checks on patients in the hospital ER, along with one health-care aide position to provide 24-7 coverage. A further 44 unit assistants were added to support the work. Chris Kitching has the story.
The Health Sciences Centre (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A pyramid of coffee lined entrances at two Winnipeg high schools recently.
Something was brewing at Collège Béliveau and Windsor Park Collegiate as students and staff competed to see which school could get more donations of coffee to people in need, through St. Boniface Street Links.
Sarah Beatty, a Grade 12 student at Collège Béliveau said 36,000 grams of coffee was collected at her school between April 14 to 23, which she said was enough to fill about 1,600 mugs. Alex Lambert has more here.
Collège Béliveau leadership students Aislyn Chester (left), Eliza Honke, and Audrina Wavey with the coffee collected through the school coffee drive on Thursday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On May 2, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Havana, Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro proclaimed the country a socialist state, ruled out elections and imposed new restrictions on the Roman Catholic Church. In Ottawa, the agriculture minister announced China would buy $362 million worth of grain from Canada, which was met with cheers in the House of Commons; however, deliveries under the deal were threatened by a potential Canadian rail strike, according to the chief commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board in Winnipeg. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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