Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, becoming sunny this afternoon, with a high of 23 C and a low of 7.
What’s happening today
The Manitoba Moose face the Milwaukee Admirals in Game 3 of an AHL playoff series at the UW Milwaukee Panther arena, starting at 7 p.m.
The Winnipeg Ice face the Saskatoon Blades in Game 4 of a WHL playoff series at SaskTel Centre, starting at 8 p.m. Joshua Frey-Sam writes that experience is making all the difference for the Ice in this series, where they lead 3-0, compared to last year.
Winnipeg Ice goaltender Daniel Hauser keeps an eye on the puck Saturday as Saskatoon Blades defenceman Charlie Wright takes a shot on goal. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free press files)
Today’s must-read
The CEO hired to run Manitoba’s massive health care bureaucracy isn’t giving up her old job. Lanette Siragusa, who took over Monday as the chief executive officer of Shared Health, will remain in her position as vice-dean of education at the University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences in a reduced role. Carol Sanders has the story.
Lanette Siragusa (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
By comparing the genetic blueprints of an array of animals, scientists are gaining new insights into our own species and all we share with other creatures. One of the most striking revelations is that certain passages in the instructions for life have persisted across evolutionary time, representing a through line that binds all mammals — including us. The Associated Press reports.
The Zoonomia Project is an international effort comparing the genetic blueprints of an array of animals. (Audrey Jackson / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On May 3, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba government was considering creating a permanent commission to protect the province’s air and surface resources from pollution. The provincial government also shelved its decision to allow doctors within the proposed medical insurance plan to charge patients more than the benefit fee. In Winnipeg, a cold air mass keeping low temperatures below freezing broke a 60-year-old record for the date. In New York, Gen. William Westmoreland asked U.S. president Lyndon Johnson to send 160,00 more troops to Vietnam to bring the total U.S. strength there to 600,000. Search our archives for more here.
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