Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud this morning, with a 60 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Expected high is 29 C, with a low of 16. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50, becoming southwest 50 gusting to 70 near noon.
What’s happening today
It’s election day in Alberta in what polls suggest could be a nail-biter finish between the province’s two dominant parties. Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party is fighting to win a second consecutive majority government, while Rachel Notley’s NDP is trying to regain the government it lost to the UCP in 2019. The Canadian Press reports.
NDP Leader Rachel Notley (left) and United Conservative Party Leader Danielle Smith (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
The grassy brush lining the Red River along Waterfront Drive has been a popular spot for the unhoused to take shelter for several years. As a result, garbage from abandoned encampments and current residents has grown into a mess that creeps in from all angles, washing up on the riverbank and spilling onto the bike trail and sidewalk opposite condos and apartments lining the street. Reporter Malak Abas talks to one of the residents of the encampment, who is trying to clean the area up, with little support. Read the full story here.
Kathy Smith takes a break from cleaning up the surroundings of her home inside an encampment along the Red River near Waterfront Drive. (Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Like the fictional character he shares a name with, Orion Remoquillo is doing extraordinary things. Remoquillo’s parents named him after Orion Pax, a character in the Transformers franchise, who becomes the heroic leader Optimus Prime, defined by his strong moral character. That’s not unlike Remoquillo, who has dedicated the past two and a half years to volunteering with students with special needs.
That dedication has paid off for the Grade 12 student at Garden City Collegiate. Last month, he was named one of 15 recipients of the 2023 Terry Fox Humanitarian Award. Aaron Epp has the story.
Orion Remoquillo, centre, a grade 12 student who volunteers with students with special needs, with Sophia Ly and Devin Bell (two of the students he volunteers with) at Garden City Collegiate. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On May 29, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported in its first hearing at the provincial legislature, the Manitoba Joint Council of Industry announced it had concluded that the rate of 37.5 cents an hour fixed by the Fair Wage Board for painters should be adopted by all master painters and journeymen painters; the Painters Unit of the One Big Union had asked for a rate of 95 cents an hour. In Ottawa, the Senate was considering a bill amending Canada’s immigration laws governing the deportation of British-born people in Canada who had committed offences against the authorities. Existing legislation, passed hastily the previous year during the Winnipeg General Strike, allowed the summary deportation of such persons. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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