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What’s happening today
Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era. The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday. The Associated Press reports.
Striking writers walk the picket line in 2007. Television and movie writers on Monday declared that they will launch an industrywide strike. (Nick Ut / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
A Manitoba woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by her family physician says she felt it was her “duty” to come forward after learning other women had gone to police with similar claims. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Dr. Arcel Bissonnette arrives at the Law Courts for the first day of his trial in Winnipeg on Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On May 2, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Canada was boosting old age pensions by several million dollars; more people would now qualify for benifits and the amount would be increased. In Winnipeg, a 12-year-old boy was accosted on Pembina Highway near Jubilee Avenue by a man whose description matched that of a suspect wanted in a recent homicide; the boy escaped, and a warning was issued to students at Lord Roberts school to be on the lookout for the man. Guards and instructors at Stony Mountain Penitentiary injured in two recent battles with prisoners were back at work. Search our archives for more here.
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