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Children’s Advocate Darlene MacDonald
CFS kids moved often: We begin with startling news that hundreds of children in the care of provincial Child and Family Services agencies are faced with the difficult adjustments that come with moving more than six times a year. The information comes from a report by the Manitoba Children’s Advocate, which notes frequent moves can have a profound impact on children who have already been traumatized by events in their lives. Some kids have been forced to move dozens of times. Two years ago, two children were transferred 105 times. READ MORE
Your forecast: Keep your fingers crossed that rain in the Environment Canada forecast helps suppress the wildfires in eastern Manitoba. Showers are expected in Whiteshell Provincial Park the next three days, with cooler temperatures ranging from 13 C today to just 3 C on Friday. In the Winnipeg region, the forecast today calls for a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and a high of 16 C, and showers Thursday and a high of just 9 C. The sky begins to clear Friday and we should be in for a sunny weekend.
In case you missed it
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSKing Yeung is grandmaster and chief instructor at Kang’s Taekwondo Academy on McPhillips Street.
Allegations of abuse: A Winnipeg taekwondo coach who once competed for Canada at competitions around the world has been accused of sexually abusing two of his students. City police have a 57-year-old man, King Yeung, in custody. He’s an instructor at Kang’s Taekwondo Academy on McPhillips Street. The man is accused of abusing one victim between 2009 and 2012, while a second victim came forward with allegations of abuse during a six-year period beginning in 1998. READ MORE
Solidifying the trench: The Winnipeg Blue Bombers used their first two selections in Tuesday night’s CFL Draft to take a couple of extremely large linemen. Without a first-round pick, the Bombers chose six-foot-three, 255-pound defensive end Trent Corney out of the University of Virginia in the second round (ninth overall) and then plucked six-foot-four, 276-pound offensive lineman Michael Couture out of Simon Fraser University with the tenth overall pick. READ MORE
A lesser role: The man who ran the province less than a month ago is now the NDP’s critic for climate change and francophone affairs. Greg Selinger will play a secondary role in opposition, after interim party leader Flor Marcelino announced the new roles for the NDP caucus. Many thought it made sense for Selinger to become finance critic, since he was a finance minister under former premier Gary Doer for a decade. But that role went to MLA James Allum. READ MORE
Up next
Lunch plans: Lt.-Gov. Janice Filmon is the keynote speaker at a luncheon today by the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba. The fundraiser, to be held in the new expansion of the RBC Convention Centre, aims to raise awareness about women’s philanthropy and the foundation’s Women’s Endowment Fund. Tickets are $200.
Perilous voyages: A new exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights looks at desperate trips across the Mediterranean attempted last year by over a million migrants and refugees who were fleeing war and persecution. While the media event announcing the exhibit will be held Thursday, the exhibit itself is already open for public viewing.
Around the water cooler
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWater bombers work hard controlling forest fire hot spots on the east side of Caddy Lake Tuesday.
Fire rages on: The fires blazing around a number of lakes in the Whiteshell area, including Caddy Lake, Nora Lake and Florence Lake, have widened, nearly doubling in area to 51 square kilometres. Water bombers are battling the fires, and rain which is expected to hit the area this afternoon could help. But many residents and cottagers fear for what could be lost if the fires get worse. READ MORE
Popular restaurants closed: The province has ordered 13 restaurants to close for a variety of reasons so far this year, with a further 31 restaurants facing fines. Most were closed only a few days, but one location, the Star Grill, was closed from Jan. 4 to March 2. READ MORE
Trending now
Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress via The Associated Press filesDefensive end Trent Corney is a player to watch heading in to the Bombers’ upcoming season.
#Bombers: Coming off Tuesday night’s CFT Draft, it was easy to predict the Winnipeg club would be trending in these parts this morning. READ MORE
#TeenChoice: Fox TV has announced the 2016 Teen Choice Awards will air on Sunday, July 31 at 7 p.m. CST. Kids around the globe are already tweeting out their choices in categories like favourite TV villain, best summer song and favourite female recording star.
On this date
On May 11, 1905: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Sir Wilfred Laurier reiterated that no contract had been let for the construction of a wire fence along the border of the Northwest Territories (which then extended south to the U.S.-Canada border) as a means of keeping U.S. cattle out of Canadian pastures. In Oklahoma, a deadly tornado wiped out the town of Snyder, killing 400 people. In Russia, anti-Jewish riots in Zhitomir killed 16 people and wounded over 100 others; most of the victims were Jews. The Great Northern line would soon link St. Paul, Minn., to Winnipeg; trains would travel the entire distance at 60 miles per hour, making it the speediest roadbed in the country.
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