Your forecast
Rain, at times heavy, amount 30 to 40 mm. Wind from the northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. Temperature steady near 8 C. UV index 1 or low.
A rainfall warning is in effect for Winnipeg. Levels on rivers and streams will increase, but most major rivers are expected to remain with their banks. Read more here.
What’s happening today
Canadian drag sensation, LGBTTQ+ activist and Canada’s Drag Race finalist Kendall Gender is bringing her immersive drag show inspired by Beyoncé’s iconic Renaissance tour to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights at 8 p.m. For more information, visit humanrights.ca/pride2024.
Kendall Gender (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba government is cracking down on nurses working in the public-health system who moonlight for private agencies and promising more money to health regions that use unionized workers.
The Manitoba Nurses Union supports the plan, but the opposition Progressive Conservatives say the NDP government is “forcing” nurses out of private agencies and into the public system.
A memorandum of understanding that’s part of the new contract reached with the MNU can fix the “skyrocketing” use of private-agency nurses, Premier Wab Kinew said in the house this week. Carol Sanders has the story.
Health Sciences Centre in WInnipeg (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome was unveiled Thursday in the Tuscan capital, where it will be displayed permanently following restoration.
The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, charged with preserving the landmark cathedral and operating its museum, called the discovery of the terracotta bust depicting Filippo Brunelleschi after nearly 600 years “exceptional.” It cited both the artistic value as well as the rarity of depictions of the architect around or after the time of his death in 1446. The Associated Press reports.
A terracotta portrait of Florence landmark cathedral’s architect Filippo Brunelleschi dating back to the early Renaissance. (Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore via The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 24, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Metro chairman Dick Bonnycastle said the corporation would like to charge a fuel tax of four cents a gallon to pay for construction of roads and bridges; he spoke to the Royal Commission on Local Government Organization and Finance of Metro’s five-year, $30-million infrastructure plan, saying property owners alone could not bear the cost. In Ottawa, a B.C. MP touted the value of selling off Crown corporations and creating a Canadian tax haven for research. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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