COVID-19 crisis
Parliament Hill is shown in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The House of Commons decided to shut down today for at least five weeks to help ensure MPs do not contribute to the spread of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Update from Ottawa: Federal officials are expected to give an update today on COVID-19 measures for seniors, home care and temporary foreign workers, The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Afternoon update: Health officials will resume their daily briefings on the province’s COVID-19 situation at 1 p.m. No news cases were announced Sunday, and one previously announced case was found to be a false positive. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of flurries this afternoon, a high of 4 C, wind from the northwest at 20 km/h starting late this morning and increasing to 30 km/h, and wind chill as low as -16 this morning.
More on pandemic
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSLauren and Geung Kroeker-Lee with their two-year-old, Sula, and newborn, Lena, by their new house in Wolseley.
New human, new home: Ben Waldman spoke to a couple who, amid the pandemic, welcomed their second child and moved into a new house in one weekend. READ MORE
City surreal: In her latest column, Melissa Martin describes the eerie experience of driving around our mostly empty city. READ MORE
Traffic take: Extending traffic limitations to open up space for cyclists and pedestrians practising social distancing has created an opportunity for change, our latest editorial states. READ MORE
Express route nearly empty: The city’s southwest transitway opened Sunday, amid plummeting bus ridership because of the pandemic. Ryan Thorpe took a ride on the Blue line, which will run as planned despite the COVID-19 crisis. READ MORE
In other news
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWilliam Hudson and Christie Zebrasky, parents of 16-year-old Eishia Hudson, create a memorial for their daughter on Sunday. Hudson was shot to death by city police Wednesday night at Lagimodiere Boulevard and Fermor Avenue. She was in a stolen SUV with several other youths.
Vigil for teen: The family of a teen girl fatally shot by city police last week held a memorial at the scene on Sunday. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Larocque looking forward: Jocelyne Larocque, who missed out on playing in the women’s world hockey championship because of the pandemic, said she’ll try to make the roster again next year. Mike Sawatzky spoke with Larocque, who grew up in Ste. Anne. READ MORE
Keeping party culture safe: Project Safe Audience, launched in 2016 to promote safer substance use in the rave scene, has grown into a full-fledged community outreach project. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Apollo 13 anniversary: Fifty years ago today, Apollo 13’s oxygen tank ruptured on its way to the moon, endangering the lives of the three U.S. astronauts aboard the spacecraft. READ MORE
On this date
On April 13, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Quebec would be represented at an international meeting on education in Paris; Quebec’s education minister said there was nothing amiss with this because it was a matter of provincial, not federal jurisdiction — but the decision had the potential to cause Canada to break off diplomatic relations with France. Tim Traynor, Winnipeg Free Press correspondent in London, won a National Newspaper Award for a series of six articles about changing morals in Britain. Thousands of West German students besieged the offices of a right-wing newspaper in Frankfurt. The Free Press published a special feature looking at Pierre Trudeau, who had just won the federal Liberal leadership and would soon succeed Lester Pearson as prime minister.
Today’s front page
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