What you need to know
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSPerla Javate (right) talks with a city police officer at a community forum at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute on Thursday evening.
Meeting on murder: A Filipino citizens’ patrol group is holding a community meeting about the killing of a teen in a home invasion. The event is at the Maples Community Centre at 6:30 p.m. Meanwhile, the slaying was on the minds of many who attended a police forum in the West End last night, Alexandra Paul reports. READ MORE
Belated apology: In Iqaluit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will apologize this morning on behalf of Ottawa for the handling of Inuit people who died while being treated for tuberculosis. Trudeau was supposed to deliver it Thursday, but a windstorm forced his plane to divert to Newfoundland. READ MORE
Balance only a beginning: On International Women’s Day, Jen Zoratti has a column on what today means to several prominent women in Manitoba. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning, a high of -5 C, and wind chill as low as -27 this morning and -12 in the late afternoon.
What’s happening today
Massive power outage: Much of Venezuela is still without electricity as a blackout that may have hit 22 of 23 states is raising tensions in the troubled nation already on edge from ongoing political turmoil, The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Scheer here: Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will outline his plan to remove the GST from home heating and energy bills at a farm in the RM of Rosser this morning. On Tuesday, the provincial government said it won’t charge PST on the national carbon tax when it takes effect next month. READ MORE
Jets down south: The Jets face the Carolina Hurricanes at 6:30 p.m. in the third of four consecutive road games. Centre Adam Lowry, eligible to return from suspension, is ill and might not play. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free PressFinance Minister Scott Fielding speaks to the media about the 2019 budget in Winnipeg on Thursday, during which he announced a seven per cent provincial sales tax by July 1.
Post-budget breakfast: Finance Minister Scott Fielding will speak at a Manitoba Chambers of Commerce breakfast this morning, one day after he announced in the provincial budget the Tory government will lower the provincial sales tax by one percentage point. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Guns and gangs: Chief Danny Smyth will announce the creation of a guns and gangs unit at a police board meeting at city hall this morning. The plan comes after two gang members killed each other at a Main Street restaurant last month. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 8, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that eight city hotels could find themselves out of business at the end of the month if they failed to comply with a recent city order to install sprinkler systems and other fire safety measures, in the wake of a hotel fire on Main Street. Prime minister Louis St. Laurent said the free world would have to recognize Red China eventually. The wholesale price of tea went up four cents, following a rise in coffee prices. READ MORE
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