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Free Press Head Start for May 18

Good morning.

Manitoba has become the COVID-19 hotspot in Canada, with the highest rate of infections per capita, surpassing Alberta, with 232 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days.

Meanwhile, a wildfire that broke out near Breezy Point over the weekend continues to burn.

And Jets centre Mark Sheifele is eager to test his mettle against the Oilers’ Connor McDavid, considered one of the best in the world, when the two teams face off in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs beginning Wednesday.

— David Fuller

 

Conflict in Israel

CPA shop is closed during a general strike in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday. (Nasser Nasser / The Associated Press)

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A shop is closed during a general strike in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday. (Nasser Nasser / The Associated Press)

Palestinians stage strike: To protest Israeli actions in the ongoing war in Gaza, Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories went on strike in a rare collective action. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE

Biden on hostilities: In a call to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden expressed support for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers, but stopped short of other U.S. Democrats’ demands for an immediate ceasefire. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE

What you need to know

Dr. Eric Jacobsohn is speaking out about the lack of involvement front-line health-care staff have had in Manitoba's pandemic planning. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)

Dr. Eric Jacobsohn is speaking out about the lack of involvement front-line health-care staff have had in Manitoba’s pandemic planning. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)

Bracing for the worst: An ICU doctor says exhausted hospital staff are not being kept informed on how they’ll handle a surge in critically ill patients as COVID-19 cases soar and strain the health-care system. Katie May reports. READ MORE

Addiction battle ends in homicide: A mother checking in on her adult daughter, who battled addiction, discovered the 27-year-old’s body in what police are investigating as a homicide. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE

Weather

Your forecast: Winnipeg is expected to get a lot of sun today, with a high reaching 30 C and a humidex of 31. Winds from the south will be 40 km/h, gusting to 60 km/h.

In case you missed it

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSTimlick bought the auto centre in 2012.

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

Timlick bought the auto centre in 2012.

Garage with a view: The Bay downtown is closed, but the Auto Centre atop its parkade has been motoring along since 1954. How did the shop outlive the Bay? Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE

On this date

On May 18, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported that in Thackerville, Okla., a tornado ripped every house from its foundations and storms had caused two deaths and $1 million worth of damage. In China, Marshall Chang Tso-Lin’s offer of a truce from Peking in the ongoing civil war was rejected by the Nationalists, as hostilities approached ever nearer to the capital. Otto Swanson, a trapper and homesteader at Whitemouth Lake, had been missing for eight days and was feared dead.

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