Your forecast
Sunny with a high of 24 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Tonight’s Bros. Landreth concert is all about family — related and musical. Siblings Dave and Joey Landreth will be joined on stage at Burton Cummings Theatre by Murray Pulver and Roman Clarke, Winnipeg musicians and producers who have become key members of the Americana outfit over the last decade. Eva Wasney has a preview here. Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith St., 7:30 p.m.
Dave (left) and Joey Landreth released Let it Lie 2013. (BnB Studios)
Today’s must-read
An admitted serial killer used shelters as his hunting ground in a methodical scheme targeting Indigenous women for sexual violation and death, a judge was told Wednesday.
“This case is about a man’s hateful and cruel acts perpetrated against four vulnerable Indigenous women,” prosecutor Renee Lagimodiere told King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal in an opening address outlining their case against Jeremy Skibicki.
“The Crown’s theory is that the accused devised a calculated scheme where he carefully thought out what he would do to them and then did those things,” Lagimodiere said. Dean Pritchard reports.
On the bright side
Football Manitoba is leveraging its fastest-growing sport in hopes it will open more doors for young players around the province.
The provincial organization’s new initiative, the Adult Flag Football Association, has set out to raise more than $1 millon over the next decade to support amateur football in Manitoba.
The AFFA will raise funds through its flagship event, an adult flag football tournament, which debuts in June. Joshua Frey-Sam has the story.
Elyssa Cadieux, a grade 9 student from CSLR high school reaches for Solape Obasa’s flag, a grade 11 student in Elmwood High School, during a Blue Bombers High School Girls Flag Football League game in Winnipeg. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On May 9, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Canada had entered into far-reaching tarriff-cutting agreements with the United States and 15 other countries aimed at benefiting Canada’s manufacturing, fishing and farming industries. Winnipeg’s new city traffic bylaw was the latest measure in legislation over the decades aimed at curbing jaywalking, which might end the “city’s notoriety throughout the countinent as the last stronghold… in which the pedestrian doesn’t play the light, but plays the car.” Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
