This morning
Police shooting in skywalk: Gunfire rang out in the skywalk between Garry and Smith streets during the lunch hour on Monday, when a police officer shot and wounded a man. “It’s too close to home. It’s just too close to home,” said one employee at the Millennium Library, which connects to the skywalk. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: Do you, or don’t you? Do you carry an umbrella today? There’s a 40 per cent chance of showers, but that means a 60 per cent chance we’ll stay dry. The high will be 15 C and Wednesday will be even warmer, with a high of 18.
In case you missed it
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA child gets dropped off in front of a south Winnipeg school that has plenty of signs clearly saying it is a school bus loading zone.
Parking ticket blitz: The Winnipeg Parking Authority began a crackdown campaign on Monday to ticket parents who stop near schools to transport their children, and also drivers who park without permits in spaces for people with disabilities. The enforcement is done with cameras that photograph licence plates; drivers won’t realize they have been caught until they get a picture, and a ticket, in the mail. Ashley Prest reports. READ MORE
Attacker jailed 23 years: A 22-year-old man who beat and raped a teen girl and a woman, leaving one for dead in the freezing Assiniboine River, was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison. Judge Tim Killeen said: “He was presented with an opportunity and brutalized each woman because he could not control his rage.” Katie May reports. READ MORE
Up next
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESPremier Brian Pallister
Premier speaks on infrastructure: Premier Brian Pallister gives a keynote address this morning on the future of public-private partnerships in building infrastructure in Manitoba. The event at the Fort Garry Hotel is hosted by The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, and The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. Pallister is scheduled to speak from 8:10 to 8:40 a.m., followed by comments from Mayor Brian Bowman.
Spotlight on speed: Are you driving faster than the posted limit? Thirty volunteers throughout Manitoba are on the roadways this week, operating speed reader boards provided by Manitoba Public Insurance to raise awareness of posted speed limits in their communities and as a reminder about the dangers of driving over the posted speed limit or too fast for road and weather conditions.
Around the water cooler
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell smiles as he walks onstage during the first round of the 2017 NFL football draft, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Football players on weed: When NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated the National Football League’s stance that marijuana use by its players will continue to be met with punitive measures, columnist Doug Brown notes the NFL doesn’t mind having an “official beer” and Anheuser-Busch paid US$1.4 billion for this privilege. With tongue firmly in place, Brown asks: “Alcohol isn’t something that can be negative to the health of the players, or have an addictive nature, like the concern Goodell has with marijuana, right?” READ MORE
Premier’s new spokesman: Premier Brian Pallister has appointed former Tory campaign director David McLaughlin as his new communications director. Writes Dan Lett: “McLaughlin is the person who managed to contain Pallister during the election campaign and suppress his natural tendency to say and do embarrassing or controversial things.” READ MORE
Trending now
#TrumpTeachesHistory: Trending in the wake of the U.S. president opining that former president Andrew Jackson was angry about the U.S. Civil War and said about it, “There’s no reason for this.” (In fact, Jackson died 16 years before the Civil War began.) Twitter users postulate other Trumped-up facts, such as “Don’t believe evolutionists when they tell you wildebeests evolved into horses. FAKE GNUS.”
On this date
On May 2, 1929: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that violence broke out at May Day celebrations in Berlin, Germany; Kovno, Lithuania; and Warsaw, Poland as police armed with tanks and machine guns clashed with demonstrators; eight people were reportedly killed and scores wounded. Strikes were reported in many Canadian cities. In Mexico, the country’s president declared he did not hold the Roman Catholic Church responsible as an institution for the recently-ended revolution against the Mexican government. READ MORE
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