What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jay Gilgour, owner of Fionn MacCool’s Restaurant and Pub, pulls a pint of Guinness at the pub Monday, March 14, 2022. With COVID-19 restrictions relaxing Kilgour and his staff are getting ready for the first St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 17 to take place in two years.JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSJay Kilgour, owner of Winnipeg’s two Fionn MacCool’s Restaurant and Pub locations, says his bars do a week’s worth of business in one day on St. Patrick’s Day.
Set to celebrate: Today is St. Patrick’s Day, and some people are ready to party after two years of cancelled or subdued celebrations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Eva Wasney and Ben Sigurdson report. READ MORE
Traveller testing to be scrapped: Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra and Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault will hold a news conference this morning. A source told The Canadian Press they will announce that fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need a negative COVID-19 test to enter Canada as of April 1. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
More March Madness: A Winnipegger will play in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament for only the fourth time when Emmanuel Akot laces up for Boise State today. The former Kildonan East Collegiate student was part of March Madness with a different team in 2018. Former Shaftesbury High School star Todd MacCulloch, who went on to play in the NBA, was in the tournament with the Washington Huskies in 1998 and ’99. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
Climate cash: Terry Duguid, the Winnipeg MP and parliamentary secretary to the minister of environment and climate change, will announce federal funds to “support the adoption of sustainable practices and technologies to help Manitoba farms fight climate change” at the University of Manitoba this morning.
High school hockey: The winner of tonight’s deciding game will hoist the Winnipeg Women’s High School Hockey League’s Division 1 trophy. The underdog J.H. Bruns Broncos beat the Collège Jeanne-Sauvé Olympiens in double-overtime to tie the series at 2-2 on Wednesday night. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your daytime forecast: Cloudy with a few flurries expected this morning, a high of 2 C, wind chill as low as -6 and wind from the northwest at 15 km/h.
In case you missed it
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSYana Sigurdson and her son Zach remove snow near their foundation to try to keep their basement dry during the spring melt after heavy snowfall this winter.
‘So much snow’: With warmer temperatures and the season’s unusually large amount of snow starting to melt, people are starting to shovel snow away from their home’s foundation. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
Railway lockout looms: Nearly 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway employees could be off the job this weekend after the company gave their union a 72-hour lockout notice. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Weaker jobs rebound for women: A new report says women’s historically high numbers in Canada’s workforce remain below where they might have been if the pandemic hadn’t happened. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 17, 1972: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a special parliamentary committee said Canada remained in a serious crisis over Quebec secessionism and that an urgent need existed for a new constitution. The Manitoba government agreed to a request by the Indian Brotherhood to improve living conditions at a northern bush-clearing camp near Ilford. In Washington, a presidential commission recommended the easing of laws restricting abortions in the U.S. READ MORE
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Winnipeg Free Press READ MORE
|
