What you need to know
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Premier Brian Pallister announced that the Manitoba government has reduced ambulance fees, effective immediately, to no more than $250 per ride, during a press conference held in the rotunda of the Manitoba Legislative building Monday morning. He also held a photo opportunity with many of his MLA’s and a couple of ambulances and their EMS crew outside the building.
190401 – Monday, April 01, 2019.
Provincial poll: Premier Brian Pallister may be considering calling an election this spring, but a poll conducted for the Free Press found the Tories trail the NDP by four percentage points in Winnipeg. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
Kicked out of caucus: Supporters of Jody Wilson-Raybould say they’d support her if she ran as an Independent in the upcoming federal election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday former cabinet ministers Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott had been ejected from his Liberal caucus. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning, wind from the northwest at 20 km/h, wind chill of -18 this morning, and a high of 0 C.
What’s happening today
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS filesThe Great-West Life Assurance Company on Osborne Street will be rebranded after today’s major reorganization.
Great big change: Great-West Life and subsidiaries London Life and Canada Life are integrating their products and services and will be called Canada Life, even though that company is the smallest of the three. Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Quitting over ‘compromise’: British Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet to try to reach an agreement on how the country will leave the European Union. A Tory cabinet minister quit his post over the meeting, calling Corbyn “a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interests first.” READ MORE
In case you missed it
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESWinnipeg Police Association president Moe Sabourin says there has been a string of violent incidents and threats directed toward officers since the force moved headquarters in 2016.
Delay a ‘disservice’: The head of the union representing city cops says the police service downplayed an incident where an armed man made threats against officers on social media, only telling the public what happened after he asked about it. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Woeful vs. Wild: The Jets, playing the second of back-to-back road games and with goalie Eric Comrie making his first start of the season, lost to the Minnesota Wild 5-1. Meanwhile, the Nashville Predators won last night, tying the Jets atop the Central Division, although the Jets have the tiebreaker. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
On this date
On April 3, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the mayor of Vancouver was urging the federal government to adopt a national response to financial relief for Canadians, as municipalities including large ones like Vancouver were being “driven to the financial wall by relief burdens.” With a win over the Elmwood Maple Leafs, the Saskatoon Wesleys moved ahead in the western Canada junior hockey championship. France said that German chancellor Adolf Hitler’s peace plan would mean the end of the League of Nations.
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