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Sunny, with fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming north at 20 km/h this afternoon. High 7 C, wind chill -7 this morning.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg hardcore band Comeback Kid plays a sold-out Park Theatre tonight at 7 p.m. Alan Small has a preview here.
Comeback Kid (Georgia Rawson photo)
Today’s must-read
The Manitoba government is vowing to hire 1,000 new front-line health-care workers this year while offering tax breaks to families and extending the fuel-tax holiday in its first budget.
The 2024 provincial budget released Tuesday mirrors the party’s key promises from last year’s election, focusing largely on efforts to shore up the ailing health-care system and ease the cost-of-living crisis, while running a deficit of nearly $800 million in fiscal 2024-25. Chris Kitching and Carol Sanders have the story.
(Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict.
The macaques that roam Lopburi are a symbol of local culture, and a major tourist draw. But after years of dangerous encounters with residents and visitors and several failed attempts to bring peace with population controls, local people and businesses have had enough.
Authorities hope to round up some 2,500 urban monkeys and place them in massive enclosures, said Athapol Charoenshunsa, the director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation. They’ll work with wildlife experts to find a way for a limited number of monkeys to stay at liberty in the city, he added.
“I don’t want humans to have to hurt monkeys, and I don’t want monkeys to have to hurt humans,” he told reporters during a news conference in Bangkok. The Associated Press reports.
Monkeys eat fruit during a monkey feast festival in Lopburi province, Thailand. (Chalida EKvitthayavechnukul / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On April 3, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported rain and snow hitting North Dakota and Minnesota, weather expected to move into southern Manitoba as well, were adding to the threat of flooding along the Red River. A new federal government office building in Winnipeg, to accommodate the Unemployment Insurance Commission offices, as well as a building to house the national revenue department, were in the planning stages. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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