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Revealing records: Records obtained by the Free Press indicate firefighters union president Alex Forrest isn’t a member of one of the committees he has used to justify taxpayers covering his salary. The city says it doesn’t have, or cannot find, attendance records for four of the eight committees Forrest said he’s a member of. “Keeping track of attendance is standard procedure for a local bowling club, let alone a city,” says Todd MacKay of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Guilty verdict: After deliberating for about seven hours, a jury found Kyllan Ellis guilty of second-degree murder last night in the killing of Simone Sanderson. There was no DNA linking Ellis to Sanderson’s body, which was found in a vacant lot on Main Street in 2012. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Strike starts: About 3,000 conductors and engineers with Canadian Pacific Rail went on strike last night, and picketing began across the country, including in Winnipeg. A tentative, last-minute agreement prevented 360 signalling workers from also going on strike at the same time. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be mainly cloudy with a high of 24 C. In the afternoon, there will be a 40 per cent chance of showers, a risk of a thunderstorm and wind at 20 km/h.
What’s happening today
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSAll Saints’ Anglican Church at Broadway and Osborne has become home to a tent village, which was erected by homeless people.
Camp cleanup: A homeless camp that has filled a church’s yard for the past month is set to come down by 2 p.m. so cleanup can start before an upcoming wedding. The board of All Saints’ Anglican Church decided last night that after the wedding, campers will only be allowed to stay on the lawn if they leave the next morning. READ MORE
‘Tense calm’: Israel and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, agreed to a ceasefire today, and the border area appears calm after the biggest conflict between the sides since 2014. More than 110 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in recent weeks, most of them during Hamas-led protests. READ MORE
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CPJUSTIN TANG / THE CANADIAN PRESSMinister of Natural Resources Jim Carr was an advocate for privatization as a civilian, but Monday defended the government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Promoted privatization: Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, who formerly led the Business Council of Manitoba and once suggested the NDP government look at privatizing parts of Manitoba’s health-care system, now finds himself defending Ottawa’s plan to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline. “You use the word nationalizing; we use the word investment, in an asset,” he said. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
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Roseanne: Brad Oswald says ABC’s decision to cancel hit sitcom Roseanne after its star made a racist tweet is a rare, principled stand in Hollywood. READ MORE
On this date
On May 30, 1983: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the owner of a video arcade was getting around an unwritten ban on such businesses being opened on the north side of Portage Avenue by “renting” the machines to players; as players paid to play them they accumulated coupons toward the purchase of the machines. An Oregon man, Art Boileau, took command early and won the fifth Manitoba Marathon. A blind Winnipeg man was thrown in jail for three hours without being told why. READ MORE
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