What you need to know
Remnants of Police Tape left on the 800 block of Alexander Avenue where the police had been investigating a homicide, Sunday, May 17, 2015. (TREVOR HAGAN/WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
Power for police watchdog: Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont says the police watchdog unit needs more power and is also calling on Manitoba Justice to release the agency’s last two annual reports. He was responding to a Free Press series on the Independent Investigation Unit and its relationship with Winnipeg police. Ryan Thorpe reports.
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Pallister’s poker face: In his latest column, Dan Lett says the Progressive Conservative government’s fourth speech from the throne raises more questions than answers.
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Weather
Your forecast: It will be mainly cloudy today with a 30 per cent chance of flurries, a high of -8 C and windchill as low as -24 in the morning and -15 in the afternoon, with the risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg Jets’ Kristian Vesalainen will return to his native Finland to play for Jokerit of the KHL.
Ex-cop in court: The trial of a former Winnipeg cop charged with threatening and pointing a gun at a female fellow officer is scheduled to begin today.
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Face-off with Flames: The Jets face the Flames in Calgary at 9 p.m. Meanwhile, Jets prospect Kristian Vesalainen is returning to Finland to play in the KHL. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
FACEBOOK PHOTOHailey Dugay, 20, was shot and killed in the RM of Armstrong.
Targeted as teen: The man charged with fatally shooting a woman in the RM of Armstrong this weekend was the victim of a less-serious road shooting in 2010. Bill Redekop reports.
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Cheap bus passes: A city committee passed a motion Tuesday that would make low-income bus passes part of the 2019 budget review process. Carol Sanders reports.
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On this date
On Nov. 21, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Britain’s foreign secretary outlined the circumstances under which the country would go to war and declared the country’s military would never be used in a war of aggression. Lake Dauphin fishermen who had been stranded while attempting to save their nets, and were forced to jump from ice floe to ice floe, were all rescued safely. Thousands of nets on the lake were lost, and would remain under the ice all winter, catching fish which would then die and rot in the spring thaw. READ MORE
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