Your forecast
Cloudy, clearing this afternoon. Wind from the north at 20 km/h becoming light late this afternoon. High 17 C, UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
At McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, Winnipeg’s Jenna Boholij launches her debut novel Lucid at 7 p.m., where she’ll be joined in conversation with filmmaker Norma Bailey. The novel sees a woman develop a dangerous coping mechanism for grappling with grief, which she thinks she has under control until a chance meeting on a flight to Seattle sees her lucid dreams begin to worsen. The event will also be livestreamed.
The Free Press Book Club and McNally Robinson Booksellers are pleased to welcome Winnipeg-born, Toronto-based author Adriana Chartrand to May’s virtual meeting at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss her debut novel An Ordinary Violence.
Adriana Chartrand (Kikki Guerard photo)
Today’s must-read
The amount of household trash Winnipeggers recycled and composted last year dropped to its lightest load in a decade, falling far short of original targets to divert waste.
Just 27.6 per cent of residential waste was kept out of the landfill in 2023.
While the city notes the total reflects weather conditions and a general weight loss in commonly recycled materials — not just household behaviour — the portion is the lowest recorded since at least 2013 and is down from 29.9 per cent in 2022. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A massive cradle of baby stars has been observed in new detail by a European space telescope, adding to its celestial collection of images.
The European Space Agency released the photos from the Euclid observatory on Thursday. They were taken following the telescope’s Florida launch last year as a warm-up act to its main job currently underway: surveying the so-called dark universe. The Associated Press reports.
This image provided by European Space Agency shows Euclid’s new image of galaxy cluster Abell 2390. (European Space Agency via The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 28, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported French aviators Lieut. Paul Codos and Lieut. Paul Rossi, having departed New York City on their trans-Atlantic flight, radioed that although navigation through fog over Newfoundland was difficult, the flight was going well. In Winnipeg, despite hot, blistering weather, many gathered on downtown streets Sunday for Decoration Day to pay tribute to fallen soldiers. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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