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FRED CHARTRAND / THE CANADIAN PRESSConservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, left, and Peter Julian NDP House Leader talk to reporters after an incident in the House of Commons in Ottawa Wednesday.
Accusations of rough play: Did you see some of those body checks handed out Wednesday? No, not between the Penguins and Lightning on the ice. We’re talking about a wild day in the House of Commons in Ottawa, with opposition MPs angrily accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of “manhandling” the Conservative whip and elbowing a female NDP MP in the chest prior to a key vote. Trudeau issued an apology, saying he never intended to hurt anyone. It’s likely the PM’s pride that’s really smarting.
Your forecast: Get your outside work and play done Saturday and Sunday because Monday is looking like an inside day, according to Environment Canada. As it stands now, the long weekend weather forecast calls for sunshine and a high of 27 C Saturday and a mix of sun and cloud Sunday and high of 28 C. But clouds roll in Sunday evening and rain showers are expect that night and most of Monday. Leading up to the weekend, we’ve got a pair of sunny, warm days, with daytime temperatures of 27 C today and 26 C Friday.
In case you missed it
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESA Winnipeg woman had her photo radar ticket tossed by the courts because of unreasonable delay.
Photo radar relief: The courts tossed a photo radar ticket, and that single decision could be good news for everyone with an outstanding traffic violation. A provincial court judge ruled a female motorist had faced an unreasonable delay in getting her day in court. She faced a trial date 18 months after the ticket was issued, a violation of her rights and freedoms READ MORE
$1 billion deficit: Premier Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservatives put a number to the province’s red ink on Wednesday and it was almost $350 million more than the outgoing NDP had previously indicated. Following a predictable political pattern, the PCs accused the NDP of misleading the public, and the NDP countered the number was inflated. And what of the Tories’ promise to cut the PST one per cent? It’s still on, sometime before the next election. READ MORE
Rape victim’s credibility questioned post-conviction: A defence lawyer called a rape victim’s credibility into question based on her past social-media posts during a sentencing hearing Wednesday. Free Press justice reporter Mike McIntyre was live-tweeting during the proceedings. He said it’s not unusual for sexual assault victims to be questioned during trials in cases like this where it is one person’s word against another’s. But it’s rare to see post-trial scrutiny at a sentencing hearing. READ MORE
Up next
Helping indigenous artists excel: The annual Manito Ahbee festival, celebrating Indigenous arts and culture, launches its first-ever Indigenous Music and Arts Program today. Over the two-day conference, participants will learn how to succeed in the music industry in workshops facilitated by producers, labels and established artists.
Around the water cooler
DARREN CALABRESE / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESRogers hiked rates on certain cell-phone data plans by $5, leaving the prices the same on others but reducing allotted data.
Only two weeks: Wireless rates are going up. Rogers announced it will hike its rates on some plans by $5. Just two weeks ago, Bell announced it was buying MTS, kicking up speculation that Manitoba, with some of lowest price rates in Canada, would soon see prices go up and up and up. With Rogers on board, can Bell be far behind? READ MORE
Osborne House mess: The former women’s shelter is shuttered, with nothing but an alleged phone line to show for its services. But behind it all? It turns out that its non-profit board it is sitting on nearly half a million dollars, including $360,000 in donations. The shelter all but fell apart after a scathing audit of the place in 2013. The province says it returned the money to the board, partly because most of the funds were donated and because it no longer has any links with the place. READ MORE
A signed Saint: Former University of Manitoba Bisons football player David Onyemata inked his first NFL contract this week. The New Orleans Saints signed the Manitoba wunderkind to a four-year deal Wednesday, penciling in Onyemata as a defensive end. READ MORE
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KEVIN CLEYNHENS / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSAn EgyptAir Airbus A320 in the air near Zaventem airport in Brussels. Egyptian aviation officials said on Thursday that an EgyptAir flight MS804 with the registration SU-GCC, travelling from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed.
#EgyptAir: An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board, including a Canadian, crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning. EgyptAir Flight 804 was lost from radar at 2:45 a.m. local time. There was no immediate information on the identity of the Canadian.
On this date
On May 19, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a legal battle over garbage pickup between Winnipeg and adjacent municipalities was brewing. The United States government indicted Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa for allegedly taking an illegal $1,008,057 from a trucking company. The U.S. secretary of state said the U.S. would quickly bow out of Southeast Asia if the Communists would “leave these countries alone.” In Canada, the federal Progressive Conservatives pledged, if re-elected, to build a second Trans-Canada pipeline to carry crude oil from Alberta to Montreal.
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