What you need to know
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSLuke Moore, police communications operator, at the Winnipeg Police Service communications centre.
Dispatch data: The Free Press obtained a log of police dispatches between Jan. 1, 2017 and March 31 of this year and analyzed the data to find out what it can tell us about crime. Ryan Thorpe and Graeme Bruce report. READ MORE
Cannabis countdown: Reporter Dylan Robertson surveyed landlords, universities and government departments to figure out where people will and won’t be able to legally use cannabis. READ MORE
Coalition wins Quebec: Quebec elected a centre-right government Monday as Coalition Avenir Québec won a majority, defeating the incumbent Liberals. “Let’s start working together for the benefit of all Quebecers,” Leader François Legault said in English in his victory speech. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be cloudy with a high of 10 C, wind from the northeast at 10 km/h increasing to 20 km/h late this afternoon and a 30 per cent chance of showers.
What’s happening today
HANDOUT / University of WaterlooCanadian scientist Donna Strickland
Canadian nets Nobel: Canadian scientist Donna Strickland has won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics. Strickland and Gerard Mourou of France helped develop laser pulses that have broad industrial and medical applications. Strickland is the third woman to win the physics prize — Marie Curie was the first, in 1903. READ MORE
Case goes to jury: A jury will begin deliberating today in the trial of three people accused of plotting the 2005 murder of Winnipeg-born real estate developer Adam Anhang in Puerto Rico. The prosecutors and defence gave their closing arguments Monday. Claude Adams reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
CPWinnipeg Jets fans celebrate the sixth goal of the game against the Nashville Predators during third period NHL hockey playoff action in Winnipeg, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Trevor Hagan
Audacity of hope: In his latest column, Paul Wiecek ponders why sports fans support teams despite inevitable disappointment. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 2, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a swelling tide of U.S. federal troops with bayonets fixed and rifles ready enforced an uneasy truce at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.; they were present to enforce the right of black student James H. Meredith, 29, to attend classes there as a forcibly enrolled student. The Mississippi governor was in court on a contempt claim because of his attempts to thwart Meredith’s entrance as the 114-year-old university’s first knowingly admitted black student. READ MORE
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