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Essential reads for May 5, 2022

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Close to 10,000 seeking driver’s licence wait up to three months for road test at gridlocked MPI

Kevin Rollason
7:00 PM CDT Thursday, May. 5, 2022
3 minute read

Malak Abas:

Manitoba child-care subsidies slow to flow under weight of ‘administrative burdens’

<p>JESSICA LEE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p> Both of her children, Solomon Carriere, 6, and Isabelle Carriere, 4, use daycare and while Lori Isber learned she wasn’t eligible for the expanded funding, it took her hours and more than one try to get there through the online application program.

Dean Pritchard:

Judge rejected bid from Balaquit killer’s lawyer to take case away from jury

WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE HANDOUT<p>Eduardo Balaquit disappeared June 5th, 2018.

Carol Sanders:

Medical call puts spotlight on lack of local access to Perimeter

Russ Mohr and Nicole Dureault-Mohr had to wait 45 minutes for an ambulance on Saturday. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)

Tom Brodbeck:

Stefanson doesn’t have a minimum-wage choice

<p>MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>Premier Heather Stefanson. The Progressive Conservative government is sticking with its plan to tie the minimum wage to the previous year’s rate of inflation.</p>

Ben Waldman:

Adaptation of Lewis Carroll classic about embracing life's weirdness

From left, feathered friends Victor Pokinko, Brady Barrientos and Kara Joseph in Alice in Wonderland, MTYP’s final show of the 2021/22 season. At right, Colleen Furlan in a scene from the play. (Leif Norman photo)

Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press:

Some hits and misses over the last curling season

Jennifer Jones and her longtime team are splitting up after winning everything they could. (Rick Elvin / The Canadian Press files)

Editorial:

Lamont’s court gambit serves multiple purposes

<p>MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>Manitoba Liberal Party leader Dougald Lamont will appear in court on May 18 to ask that the case be heard.</p>

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