Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, becoming cloudy this morning. Wind becoming southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50 early this morning. High 2 C, wind chill -16 this morning. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Mark Carney will be making a stop today in Winnipeg to meet with supporters and local Liberal candidates, and speak to media. The prime minister and Liberal leader will be in Winnipeg only days after Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre held a rally near Winnipeg’s international airport Saturday.
Liberal leader Mark Carney (Frank Gunn / The Canadian Press files)
With April being National Poetry Month, Plume Winnipeg’s Writes of Spring project is once again looking to publish your poems in the pages of the Free Press.
And while previous years have featured a theme for poets to work with, for this 10th edition scribes can write about any subject they choose, so long as it’s on the shorter side (25 lines or less per poem, up to five poems). Read more here.
Long-running poetry reading event Speaking Crow returns with another in-person event tonight at 6:30 p.m., to be held once again at the Saint-Boniface Library (100-131 Provencher Blvd.). This month’s featured poet is John Weier, whose collection New & Selected Poems of John Weier was recently published by CMU Press and edited by Manitoba-born, B.C.-based Nathan Dueck.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba health leaders are bracing for the imposition of sweeping U.S. tariffs Wednesday that are expected to have a significant effect on the delivery of services by the province’s already-overwhelmed system.
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara, Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson and Doctors Manitoba president Dr. Randy Guzman have, over the past few days, raised concerns about what President Donald Trump’s punishing economic measures are going to do to patients here and the people who look after them.
“Trump tariffs, are… going to have a very real impact on health care and the infrastructure of health care across the country and certainly… in Manitoba,” Asagwara told a Canadian Medical Association conference in Ottawa Thursday. Carol Sanders has the story.
Health minister Uzoma Asagwara (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the lighter side
A dorm bathroom filled with Jell-O. A doctored graduation composite with a non-existent student’s name and portrait. The transformation of a school hallway into a public park with sod, trees and benches.
These are among the legendary pranks that have taken place at Canadian Mennonite University since its early inception.
For students and academics alike, April 1 marks the winding down of the winter term and an opportunity to keep up a longtime tradition of pulling practical jokes on the Shaftesbury campus. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
On this date
On April 1, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Edmonton, a meeting of the Social Credit caucus lasting till 1 a.m. saw little reconciliation between the loyalist and insurgent wings of the party, and rumours that party leader and premier William Aberhart might resign were denied. In Winnipeg at an education conference at the Royal Alexandria Hotel, Rev. J.W. Clarke of Knox Church told attendees that teachers should fill their students’ minds with question marks and inflame their intellects. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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