Your forecast
Periods of light snow this morning. Wind from the west at 20 km/h becoming northwest at 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 0 C, wind chill -10 this morning.
What’s happening today
At McNally Robinson (Grant Park) at 7 p.m., Prairie Fire magazine launches its latest issue, Burning Up, Burning Down, a collection of writing guest-edited by Sue Goyette in response to 2023 being the hottest year on record.
The event will be hosted by local poet Kristian Enright and will feature readings by contributors including Rowan McCandless, Kerry Ryan, Margaret Sweatman, Deborah Schnitzer, Zilla Jones and others.
Admission is free, and the launch will also be streamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.
More than 20 Franco-Manitoban artists will perform in the Salle Jean Paul Aubry at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd., at 8 p.m. to mark a half-century of music at CCFM. For more information, visit ccfm.mb.ca.
Flora Luna is one of more than 20 artists celebrating 50 years of music at Centre culturel franco-manitobain.
Today’s must-read
A new report from the organization running Manitoba’s only overdose prevention site recommends the government establish multiple supervised consumption sites throughout the province where safer supply drugs are offered.
The 91-page report, prepared by Winnipeg consulting firm LAHRK Consulting for Sunshine House, which runs the Mobile Overdose Prevention Site — an RV where people can consume drugs under supervision — evaluated MOPS’s first year of operations.
The report declares MOPS a success, with more than 26,000 visits from November 2022 to October 2023, just 20 overdoses and no deaths. Katrina Clarke has the story.
(Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
In Manitoba, where the equivalent of four football fields of wetlands are lost to agricultural development every day, new programs are now emerging to curb the dramatic trend. The province has provided funding to several non-profit organizations to incentivize farmers to work with — not against — the small wetlands.
Conserving them keeps vital ecosystem services like groundwater management, wildlife habitat and carbon sequestration intact. For many producers, this can also boost their bottom line. Julia-Simone Rutgers has the story.
Don Guilford, a cattle farmer near Clearwater who conserves wetlands on his property, has entered into a partnership with Ducks Unlimited to preserve the potholes on his property. (John Woods / Free Press)
On this date
On April 19, 1988: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the city’s protection, parks and culture committee voted to spend $50,000 to build a facility for elephant rides at Assiniboine Park Zoo. U.S. warships destroyed two of Iran’s Persian Gulf oil platforms, sank a patrol boat and disabled two Iranian frigates that had fired missiles at U.S. planes. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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