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Mix of sun and clouds with a high of -2 C and low of -10; wind chill -22 this morning.
What’s happening today
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives in Canada tonight for a 24-hour visit, his first to the country since being sworn in as president two years ago. The Canadian Press reports.
U.S. President Joe Biden (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Health Minister Audrey Gordon faced repeated calls for her resignation Wednesday in the wake of a mass exodus of sexual assault nurse examiners from Manitoba’s largest hospital. Opposition members spent most of the day’s 40-minute question period reprimanding Gordon for the Progressive Conservative government’s handling of the forensic nurse examiner program at Health Sciences Centre. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Health minister Audrey Gordon (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
In case you missed it
Han Dong, the member of Parliament at the centre of allegations of Chinese meddling in Canadian affairs, has resigned from the Liberal caucus and will sit as an Independent. The Canadian Press reports.
MP Han Dong says he is resigning from the Liberal caucus. (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On March 23, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Belleville, Ont., police followed footprints in the snow to find the body of a 10-year-old boy who had been kidnapped; the man identified as the intermediary through which the boy’s family was to send the $25,000 ransom was later found dead in his home of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. U.S. president John F. Kennedy was sending helicopters, long-range aircraft and other military supplies to Laos to help it resist communist forces. In Manitoba, direct long-distance calling would soon be available to telephone users. Search our archives for more here.
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