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What’s happening today
Prime Minister Mark Carney will have to navigate a delicate balance during his first in-person meeting with Donald Trump today, following months of the U.S. president targeting Canada with tariffs and taunts.
Carney and Trump will meet at the White House and the prime minister has said he expects “difficult, but constructive” conversations. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney disembarks a government plane as he arrives in Washington, D.C., Monday. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
A year ago on Red Dress Day, Cambria Harris pleaded with the Manitoba government to search the landfill for the remains of her murdered mother.
“One year later, I can officially say that we were right,” Harris said Monday afternoon after speaking to a group of about 50 people at the University of Manitoba. “We searched the Prairie Green Landfill, and we finally are changing that system.”
Harris, 24, delivered a 60-minute keynote that covered a myriad of personal stories about her and Morgan Harris, who was slain by convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. Her remains were found in March after a search at the landfill north of Winnipeg. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Hundreds of people walked from Memorial Park to The Forks during the annual Red Dress Day memorial walk, Monday morning in Winnipeg. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
As Jets fans aboard an airplane sought to watch the dramatic Game 7 Sunday night, the high-stakes contest was being closely watched around the province even by other hockey players and a referee in the middle of their own game.
And a Winnipeg business is benefiting from the Jets’ extended run in the Stanley Cup playoffs: Dreamcatcher Productions, a local, First Nations-run business, has already printed 120,000 whiteout rally towels, and another 40,000 are on their way as the Jets prepare to host at least the first two games of the second round, best-of-seven series against the Dallas Stars later this week. Read the full story here.
Annabella Maguet collected several towels and fashioned her own Whiteout-themed pants and jacket. (Supplied)
On this date
On May 6, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Nelson, B.C., sentences totalling 354 years were handed down to 84 Doukhobor men and 34 Doukhobor women, members of the Sons of Freedom sect, who pleaded guilty to parading nude in public; six of the women immediately showed defiance by trying to disrobe in court. The Manitoba legislature passed minor legislation ahead of a more contentious debate on whether to close the Provincial Savings Office. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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