Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h early this morning. High 7 C. Wind chill -10 this morning. UV index 2 or low.
Spring is almost here — officially, at least. The vernal equinox arrives today, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and the fall in the Southern Hemisphere. On the equator, the sun will be directly overhead at noon. Equinoxes are the only time when both the north and south poles are lit by sunshine at the same time. The Associated Press has more here.
This image provided by NOAA on March 19, 2025 shows the Earth. (NOAA via The Associated Press)
What’s happening today
A collage of sounds and sights will envelope the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq tonight at 7 p.m. GS4: North/South, presented by GroundSwell and WAG-Qaumajuq, brings together throat singing, strings, percussion and electronics amid a rich display of artworks from the recent WAG-Qaumajuq exhibition Inuit Sanaugangit: Art Across Time. Conrad Sweatman has a preview here.
Violist Jennifer Thiessen performs in GroundSwell’s North/South concert tonight. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Following hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns, Manitoba Public Insurance is abandoning its Project Nova technology overhaul after a revised estimate pegged costs at $435 million, 50 per cent more than previously thought, the Free Press has learned.
Sources confirmed MPI officials met with the Public Utilities Board this week to reveal the new cost estimate and to indicate it is closing the book on Nova and writing off the money spent to date on the final two phases of the four-phase project.
The Crown corporation plans to pursue some of the goals of Project Nova, but in a more time- and cost-effective manner, the sources said. Dan Lett has the story.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
American rapper and singer Jelly Roll took a break from performing to shoot hoops and speak with incarcerated teens at the Manitoba Youth Centre before his sold-out show in Winnipeg.
A spokesperson for the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union, which represents corrections officers at the youth centre, confirmed the Grammy-nominated artist played basketball with each unit at the centre and was “really generous with his time (and) super encouraging.” Nicole Buffie has more here.
American rapper/singer Jelly Roll brought his Beautifully Broken tour to Canada Life Centre Monday evening in WInnipeg to an estimated crowd of 13,500 concertgoers. (Dwayne Larson / Free Press files)
On this date
On March 20, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Tehran an Iranian staff officer revealed three Iranian garrisons in the northwest of the country had been under attack for weeks by Kurdish rebels. At a court martial at the Fort Osborne barracks, a Manitoba private from the Winnipeg Grenadiers testified he had been hit in the face by a sergeant and a sergeant-major after the private had taken some cigarettes from another soldier. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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