What’s happening today
Only a test: Manitobans will receive an alert as a test of an emergency messaging system on compatible cellphones and smartphones at 1:55 p.m. as part of National Emergency Preparedness Week. Alert Ready’s system failed in Quebec and with some wireless users in Ontario earlier this week. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Nuke deal fallout: Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump today over his decision to pull out of a nuclear deal, saying “You cannot do a damn thing,” and that Trump’s speech Tuesday contained more than “10 lies.” Earlier, lawmakers set a paper U.S. flag ablaze inside parliament and shouted “Death to America.” READ MORE
Your forecast
Weather: Today will be cloudy, clearing this afternoon, with a high of 17 C, patches of fog dissipating this morning and wind from the north at 50 km/h gusting to 70 in the late afternoon.
In case you missed it
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA train waits on the tracks near Dugald Road near the Perimeter Highway Tuesday.
Train to blame: The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service has scheduled a meeting with the Canadian National Railway later this week after a train appears to have sparked at least five brush fires around the city. “I’ve never seen a single incident like that one on Sunday,” says deputy WFPS chief Tom Wallace. READ MORE
Sexual harassment claim: A Brandon veteran of the war in Afghanistan says Quebec MP Christine Moore plied him with alcohol and pressured him into sex. “She took her position of authority and she benefited from it,” Glen Kirkland said Tuesday. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe fans remaining stood stunned at the Jets 4-0 loss against the Nashville Predators after the 3rd period Monday night.
Altitude adjustment: Having the league’s best fans doesn’t win a team the Stanley Cup, columnist Paul Wiecek writes. If the Jets hope to advance in the NHL playoffs, they will have to rise to the occasion, which they’ve failed to do three times in their series against the Nashville Predators. READ MORE
Russian paid Trump lawyer: A company associated with a Russian billionaire gave about US$500,000 to Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Financial documents appear to confirm the claim made Tuesday by the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump. READ MORE
Trending now
Game 7: No surprise that this is trending locally in Winnipeg, despite the fact that the Winnipeg Jets’ deciding game 7 against the Nashville Predators in the Stanley Cup playoffs doesn’t take place until Thursday, and won’t be a home game for the Jets.
On this date
On May 9, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported that resentment had been stirred up in the Canadian colony in London, England after remarks published in the Toronto Telegram that questioned the loyalty of Canadians living in England. In Ottawa, territorial differences proved more divisive than political ones, as the Prairie provinces wanted the Wheat Board and Crows Nest Pass agreement, and British Columbia wanted strict controls on immigration from Asia. READ MORE
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