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What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of a second-round playoff series at Canada Life Centre, starting at 8:30 p.m.
Winnipeg Jets fans at a Whiteout street party in April (Brook Jones / Free Press files)
Alert Ready, Canada’s emergency public alerting system, will be put to the test today.
The alert and its distinctive tone will be broadcast on TV, radio, and some compatible wireless devices. In Manitoba, the test will take place at 1:55 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba Lung Association says schools must create designated corners that offer resources about the harms of vaping and help with quitting because of the alarming increase in teenage users.
High school teachers have been grappling with an influx in indoor vaping and enforcing smoke-free policies over the last decade.
More than 18 per cent of Grade 7 to 12 students in Manitoba use e-cigarettes, says Health Canada’s latest polling. The number of youth who reported vaping within the last 30 days grew from 16.7 per cent in 2021-22 to 18.4 per cent in 2023-24. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
(Diego Fedele /AAP Image via The Associated Press files)
On the bright side
Food producers are stepping up their efforts to help Manitobans who are finding it difficult to feed themselves and their families.
Manitoba Egg Farmers announced Tuesday they will be doubling their monthly donation to Harvest Manitoba from 1,800 dozen to 3,600 dozen, or more than 43,000 eggs.
Those eggs are coming from farmers across the province, who jumped at the chance to ramp up donations after a tour of Harvest’s facilities left organization members “awestruck,” said vice-chair Don Gaultier. Malak Abas has more here.
Manitoba Egg Farmers will double monthly egg donations to Harvest Manitoba amid what Harvest president & CEO Vince Barletta (left) says is record demand for food banks. Egg Farmers vice-chair Don Gaultier (right) says egg farmers are proud to be making a difference. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On May 7, 1952: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Munsan, Korean peace talks sank to an all-time low after the Communists rejected the Allies’ “clear, final and irrevocable” package proposal. General Motors was planning to build a multimillion-dollar parts depot, zone office and assembly plant in Winnipeg. A city engineer’s recommendation that the cost of widening Broadway Boulevard, estimated at $200,000, be borne by the city, was laid over for further study by the committee on public works. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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