What you need to know
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 30km/h school zone speed limit sign on Grosvernor Avenue near Wilton Street.
Lower speed slammed: A poll commissioned by the Free Press and CTV News found 65 per cent of Winnipeggers think a city-wide residential speed limit of 30 km/h is a bad idea. “People really don’t like this idea,” says Probe Research president Scott MacKay. “It’s really a non-starter, as far as they’re concerned.” Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
Slated for sentencing: Daniel Williams is expected to be sentenced today for the death of his 21-month-old daughter, Kierra Elektra Star Williams. A jury convicted him of manslaughter in the toddler’s 2014 death last February.
Deficit and debt: In Ottawa, the Department of Finance will release the federal government’s annual financial report later this morning. It summarizes results for the fiscal year that ended March 31, including the budgetary balance.
Weather
Your forecast: There will be a mix of sun and cloud today with a high of 10 C, wind from the northwest at 40 km/h gusting to 60 starting later this morning and a 60 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon.
What’s happening today
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Daphne Penrose, Manitoba’s children’s advocate
Details on death: Daphne Penrose, the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, will release her first public child death report this morning. It’s on the case of a First Nations boy in a rural community and the public services that were provided.
Pool pledge: Mayoral candidate Jenny Motkaluk and Marcel Boille, who is running for a council seat in St. Boniface, are holding a news conference to say they would reverse the city’s decision to close the Norwood Pool.
Manafort in court: Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, is scheduled to appear in court in Virginia. A judge will consider whether Manafort will be sentenced on fraud charges before or after he is done co-operating with special counsel Robert Mueller.
On this date
On Oct. 19, 1983: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Free Press paper carrier and his friends stole $5,000 from a 90-year-old widow over the course of 20 months, emptying her wallet in regular visits to her home; four people, two aged 14, one 15 and one 19, were charged by police. Two inmates were injured in a riot that involved about half of the 360 inmates at Headingley Correctional Institute. The audience at a debate over French-language rights in Manitoba largely sided against the pro-French speaker on the basis of the cost of implementing changes. READ MORE
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