What’s happening today
CPStatistics Canada’s offices in Ottawa (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
Set to release report: Statistics Canada will release its inflation report for last month. The annual inflation rate hit 5.7 per cent in February, the biggest increase to the consumer price index since August 1991. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
‘Exciting’ education announcement: The office of Education Minister Wayne Ewasko says “an exciting announcement” setting out the provincial government’s response to the 75 recommendations of the K-12 commission on education is scheduled for today. READ MORE
Ready to roll: Delta 9 announced it is launching Canada’s first mobile cannabis store. (The first legal one, anyway.) Martin Cash reports. READ MORE
Federal funding: Dan Vandal, the Winnipeg MP and minister for PrairiesCan, will discuss “jobs and growth” and make a funding announcement at NFI Group this morning.
‘Possible burials’ site: A Saskatchewan First Nation will release details about “possible burials found” at the site of a former residential school. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Sports
New York Rangers defenseman Adam Fox (23), center Mika Zibanejad (93), center Ryan Strome (16) and left wing Chris Kreider (20) celebrate a goal by Strome against the Winnipeg Jets during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
Facing elimination: The Winnipeg Jets will be eliminated from playoff contention if the Dallas Stars earn at least one point in their road game against the Edmonton Oilers tonight. Mike McIntyre reports from New York on Winnipeg’s third consecutive loss. READ MORE
Tip-off in Toronto: The Raptors will host the Philadelphia 76ers as their NBA playoff series shifts to Toronto for Game 3 tonight. The Raptors trail the series 2-0. READ MORE
Weather
A postal worker delivers mail on Arlington Street in January. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Mail delivery delayed: Canada Post is digging itself out from a mountain of mail after going a week without delivery because of last week’s blizzard and two federal holidays. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Your daytime forecast: Cloudy with a few wet flurries this morning, a high of 4 C and wind from the southeast at 30 km/h decreasing to 20 km/h.
Many snow days: Some students north of Winnipeg have missed nearly three weeks of school in 2021-22 because of stormy conditions and frigid temperatures. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSImagine Dragons vocalist Dan Reynolds works the crowd at Canada Life Centre, Tuesday.
Dragons den: Eva Wasney has a review of the Imagine Dragons concert at Canada Life Centre. READ MORE
For the birds: The Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre is suggesting that people remove bird baths and feeders to help prevent the spread of avian flu. Isabel Buckmaster reports. READ MORE
On this date
On April 20, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev warned Western nations against touching off an uprising in East Germany, saying they would face retaliation. A secret agent’s 1940 report labelling a “Prof. Herbert Norman” as a member of the Canadian Communist party, checked by the RCMP and believed erroneous, sat in a file for 10 years before being sent to the FBI in 1950, according to the federal justice minister. READ MORE
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