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A few showers ending late this afternoon, then cloudy, with wind becoming northwest a20 km/h late this afternoon. High 11 C, UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Indian multi-hyphenate Diljit Dosanjh returns to Winnipeg Friday for his second show at the city’s biggest music venue in as many years. Dosanjh is a singer-songwriter, Bollywood actor, television personality and rising global celebrity. He has more than 17 million monthly listeners on Spotify and has starred in several blockbuster Hindi films. Canada Life Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $179-$1,700 plus fees at Ticketmaster.
Punjabi musician and actor Diljit Dosanjh (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service insists the only way to reach a cost-saving directive from the city is by occasionally taking some fire vehicles off the street — an option the councillor who oversees community services calls unrealistic.
A report on the WFPS’s overtime mitigation strategy, prepared by Deputy Chief Scott Wilkinson, goes to council’s community services committee next week.
The report noted the city has asked the WFPS to cut its budget this year by $3 million. All city departments have been asked to cut costs. Erik Pindera has the story.
“It’s not an ideal situation, but we’re faced with a significant budgetary challenge here,” Chief Christian Schmidt said. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On the bright side
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek. Afterward, he pressed the chewed plant to cover the open wound like a makeshift bandage, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. The Associated Press has more here.
This photo provided by the Suaq foundation shows a facial wound on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia. (Armas / Suaq foundation via The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 3, 1980: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Montreal, prime minister Pierre Trudeau demanded Queber premier René Levesque tell voters what he would do if, in the upcoming referendum, they voted against sovereignty-association between the province and the rest of Canada. A University of Winnipeg proefessor persuaded a Classic Bookshop employee to sell him two banned gay sex manuals and then complained to police he had been sold obscene materials, in order to force the issue of censorship into the open. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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