The Wrap: HSC moving into Manitoba Clinic, police-fire games cycling crash, Trudeau split, and ‘a wood Samaritan’

The Health Sciences Centre Foundation is acquiring the half-empty Manitoba Clinic tower next door to make way for the reconstruction of adult hospital bed towers, parts of which are now more than 100 years old. Without the use of the 10-storey clinic building, the HSC would have had to build temporary homes for various patient programs, adding several years to the construction project.

A STARS helicopter and seven ambulances were called to Birds Hill Provincial Park this morning after World Police and Fire Games cyclists crashed during a race. Three cyclists were hospitalized. The crash hit close to home for one road race co-ordinator, who was seriously injured in the same event at the 2015 games in a crash that killed a competitor.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau have announced a separation after “many meaningful and difficult conversations.” Trudeau will continue to live at Rideau Cottage and the children will primarily live there. Grégoire Trudeau has moved to another home in Ottawa but will spend time at the cottage with her children. The family still plans to vacation together next week.

A city man has been donating his time, and his lathe, to making Woodies — wooden phalluses used by sex educators to demonstrate correct condom usage. “I described it to somebody as the silliest and most serious project I’ve ever had to work on,” says Jason Hooper.