Your forecast
Cloudy, with rain beginning this morning, 10 to 15 mm. Wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 11 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers presents signals to segue at the Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne Ave.; preview tonight at 7:30 p.m.; see winnipegscontemporarydancers.ca for full showtimes. WCD artistic director’s Jolene Bailie’s newest creation is about the dance of daily life. “It’s about our responsibility to call and respond, in a way,” says Bailie. “We always have to be either signalling or segueing; we can’t just peace-out and not participate.” Eva Wasney has a preview here.
Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers end the season with a new work by artistic director Jolene Bailie. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Prolific author Cory Doctorow will chronicle the decline of the digital world and how we can reverse it at 7 p.m. at Knox United Church (400 Edmonton St.). Doctorow’s talk, called “Escaping the Enshittocene: Why Everything is Terrible & What to do About It,” is being presented by the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read Jen Zoratti’s interview with Doctorow about it here. Tickets are $25 plus fees and can be obtained at wfp.to/y8Z.
Cory Doctorow (Jonathan Worth photo)
Today’s must-read
The defence for a Winnipeg man on trial for the slayings of four Indigenous women will argue he was not criminally responsible for the crimes.
The revelation came during closing arguments in a hearing to determine whether Jeremy Skibicki should be allowed to have his trial heard by a judge alone, rather than a jury.
Skibicki, 37, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the May 2022 slayings of three Indigenous women — Morgan Harris, Rebecca Contois and Marcedes Myran — as well as a fourth unidentified woman who was killed in March 2022. She has been named Buffalo Woman (Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe) by Indigenous leaders. Dean Pritchard has the story.
King’s Bench Justice Glenn Joyal oversees the opening of accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki’s trial Monday. (James Culleton illustration)
On the bright side
Manitoba will fill a record number of medical residencies this summer and expects it to pay off by having more doctors stay and set up their practice in the province.
“Our goal is to get people here in Manitoba, show them how great it is to be in Manitoba, and then keep them here,” said Dr. Peter Nickerson, University of Manitoba vice-provost (health sciences) at a news conference Wednesday at the Max Rady College of Medicine.
On July 1, 173 medical school graduates will begin two-year residencies across Manitoba; that’s 17 more than last year, when three of those seats were unfilled, Nickerson said. Carol Sanders reports.
Stefon Irvin’s goal is to have a “full-scope” family medicine practice in northern Manitoba when he completes his two-year residency in 2026. (Tim Smith / The Brandon Sun)
On this date
On May 2, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Istanbul, NATO foreign ministers endorsed Western proposals on disarmament to be put to the Soviet Union. In Johannesburg, South African prime minister Hendrick Verwoerd, recovering from an assassination attempt, declared his country would not relax its strict racial segregation policy. In London, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said South Africa’s practice of apartheid was “a danger to world peace.” In Winnipeg, 50 elms on Broadway were cut down within 48 hours in a program that prevented any opposition from locals. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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