Your forecast
Periods of light snow ending this morning, and then cloudy, with a high of 2 C and a low of -5. Wind northeast 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming north 50 gusting to 70 this morning.
What’s happening today
A group of local DJs and artists (including Mama Cutsworth, DJ Hunnicutt, Wandag and Hari Vijaijay) will come together on April 21 — the seventh anniversary of Prince’s death — for a night of Prince/Prince-adjacent tunes at The Tallest Poppy, 103 Sherbrook St., at 9 p.m. in support of Sunshine House and its mobile overdose prevention site. Tickets are $15 at the door.
Prince performs in 2007 (Theo Wargo/WireImage.com)
Today’s must-read
Two Manitoba doctors say the government is trying to discredit them after they spoke out against the province’s diagnostic and surgical task force over their concerns it is prioritizing privatization over patient care. Katie May has the story.
Dr. Nancy Porhownik (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On April 21, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 49 soldiers from Winnipeg were building a major dike around Emerson General Hospital as floodwaters of the rising Red River crept into the business section of the border town. The Red River fell by about six inches in Winnipeg, but flood forecasters said this dip would only be temporary. Large-scale U.S. ground and naval reinforcements were imminent for South Vietnam, and it was revealed that the first major confrontation between U.S ground forces and Viet Cong guerrillas had already take place. In Winnipeg, a visiting official from the U.S. NAACP said Canadians who refused to see the plight of Indigenous and Métis people as related to racial discrimination were suffering from myopia. Search our archives for more here.
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