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Cloudy with a high of 14 C with a few showers this morning. Wind from the northeast at 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon.
What’s happening today
The Liberal government is expected to announce the renewal of its multimillion-dollar federal gun and gang violence program.
Chicago metal group Disturbed is bringing a blast from its past to a North American tour called the Take Back Your Life tour, which stops at Canada Life Centre at 8 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Metal band Disturbed plays the arena today. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Mall employees are shaken up after witnessing multiple teenagers get stabbed by a masked stranger wielding a machete and the aftermath of the bloody crime that happened in CF Polo Park shopping centre over the weekend.
Four victims, three 14-year-old boys and a 13-year-old boy, are recovering after a lone suspect attacked them on Friday night in what is believed to be a random event, the Winnipeg Police Service announced Sunday. Maggie Macintosh reports.
According to witnesses, multiple teenagers were stabbed by a stranger wielding a machete at CF Polo Park on Friday. The incident occurred inside the shopping centre next to Mr. Pretzels which is located near the Apple Store. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Armed with garbage pickers, plastic bags and gloves, more than 100 volunteers converged on Winnipeg’s inner city Saturday, in a co-ordinated attempt to clean up several North End neighbourhoods. Tyler Searle reports.
“People basically treat this neighbourhood as a dumping ground,” said Catherine Flynn, acting chair of the Point Douglas Residents’ Association. (Tyler Searle / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On May 8, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported the British government would ask Prince Carol of Romania, who had been visiting Surrey for a week, to leave the country; the prince admitted responsibility for a manifesto published in London in which he declared he was awaiting a call from Romania to assume the throne in place of his young son, King Michael. In Winnipeg, a 16-year-old boy was in Misercordia Hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg after he and his friends were examining a .22 rifle and it went off. A Winnipeg Hydro employee working on a bridge fell into the Winnipeg River at Pointe du Bois and drowned. Search our archives for more here.
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