Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with snow beginning early this morning and ending this afternoon. Risk of freezing rain early this afternoon. Snowfall amount 2 cm. Wind from the northeast at 30 km/h. High 0 C. Wind chill -14 this morning.
Canada’s recent flirtation with balmy temperatures will give way to spring’s characteristically volatile weather, the Weather Network’s chief meteorologist said, with a new seasonal forecast suggesting winter may still deliver some parting punches.
Spring may be slightly chillier in Western Canada but otherwise close to normal in the rest of the country, the forecast suggests. But prepare for the ups and downs of what’s typically Canada’s most fitful season, said the Weather Network’s Chris Scott. “Get ready for a wild ride,” he said. The Canadian Press has more here.
Trucks drop their loads of snow at the Angrignon snow deposit site in Montreal in February. (Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Oress files)
What’s happening today
Gossip, a noirish comedy, opens tonight at the Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Ave., courtesy of local independent theatre company Hood and Dagger. Tickets: $25 available online.
A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere.
The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa and Europe may catch a glimpse.
Lunar eclipses happen when the moon, Earth and sun align just so. The Earth casts a shadow that can partially or totally blot out the moon. The Associated Press has more here.
Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in 2021. (Ringo H.W. Chiu / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
The family of a Niverville grandmother who died while waiting for heart surgery is calling for changes that they hope will prevent similar deaths in Manitoba.
Debbie Fewster, 69, was told she required surgery within three weeks, but waited more than two months for a triple bypass before she died at home in October, her family said.
“My mom passed away before the surgery every happened, and I can’t describe the shock, the anger and the grief,” her son Daniel Fewster said at a news conference Wednesday. “We trusted the system to save her, but it failed her and it failed us. It’s failing too many others.” Chris Kitching has the story.
Debbie Fewster’s children, Colleen Dyck and Daniel Fewster, held a news conference Wednesday to call for changes in Manitoba’s health-care system. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at the same site.
The torso, believed to be from the 12th or 13th century, was discovered during a dig by a team of Cambodian and Indian experts last month at Angkor’s Ta Prohm temple. It was found along with 29 fragments that appeared to be part of the same statue, archaeologist Neth Simon said this week.
It stands at 1.16 metres tall and is in the Bayon art style, associated with Angkor’s Bayon temple. The Associated Press has more here.
A headless statue excavated by archaeologists at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province. (Apsara National Authority via The Associated Press)
On this date
On March 13, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Toronto, protest organizers hoped to get as many as 2,000 people to demonstrate outside the U.S. embassy against the treatment of civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala. Pro-segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with president Lyndon Johnson to ask for aid in ending racial demonstrations in his state. In Ottawa, prime minister Lester Pearson had reportedly informed close cabinet colleagues he was thinking of calling an early election. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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