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Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries or rain showers early this morning. Clearing this morning. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h. High 3 C, wind chill -8 this morning. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Peacebreach launches its new album, Cognitive Dissonance, at Public Domain tonight at 9:30 p.m. With Sleeptalker and Guilty Sleep. Tickets: $19 at reallovewpg.com
Peacebreach (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
It has never happened before in the party’s history, but the New Democratic Party could be shut out of Manitoba in the upcoming federal election if public opinion polls hold.
Voter intention continues to show the NDP at single-digit support across the country, including in Manitoba — well below where the party was polling at the beginning of the year.
The party’s popularity has fallen so sharply over the past few weeks it’s now at risk of not winning a single seat in Manitoba. Tom Brodbeck has the story here.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press)
On the bright side
Tourism Winnipeg was just being playful with its April Fools’ blog post that dubbed Winnipeg the “middle child” of Canada. Turns out, the joke tickled people’s funny bone. Instead of it being cast aside, like a middle child is supposedly ignored, the internet ran with it.
So, Economic Development Winnipeg’s tourism team is embracing classic middle-child syndrome traits to lure travellers to the “middle of nowhere” this summer. “It makes it really hard not to take a fun, creative concept like this and roll it out for real in the summer, so that’s what we’re doing,” said Tyler Walsh, director of marketing at Tourism Winnipeg. Scott Billeck has more here.
An April Fools’ joke has turned into a real marketing campaign for Tourism Winnipeg. (Supplied)
On this date
On April 4, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, prime minister Lester Pearson announced Roland Michener would be Canada’s new governor general. The defence minister said the unification of Canada’s armed forces laid out in new legislation would likely take eight to nine years. Federal capital spending in Manitoba was expected to reach $732.6 million, up nearly $76 million from actual expenditures in the province the previous year. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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