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Free Press Head Start for Feb. 13
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Good morning.
A patient who died after being released from a hospital emergency room was among 31 critical incidents reported in Manitoba health-care settings over a three-month period, according to the provincial government’s latest quarterly report. Chris Kitching has the story.
A Steinbach businessman believes his company has the right stuff to take over virtual retail sales of Manitoba park passes. Aaron Epp reports.
— David Fuller
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Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with wind up to 15 km/h. High -20 C. Wind chill -43 this morning and -27 this afternoon. Frostbite in minutes. An extreme cold warning is in effect for Winnipeg.
What’s happening today
Indecent by Paula Vogel opens tonight at Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and runs through March 8. Tickets are $29.50-$111. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
Scott Penner, set designer for the upcoming production of Indecent, got to build a theatre inside a theatre inside a theatre. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial leaders launched a “charm offensive” in the U.S. capital Wednesday to remind America of its deep ties to its northern neighbour, Wab Kinew told reporters ahead of a meeting at the White House.
Manitoba’s premier said the nations’ friendship has “been the best in the world for decades and decades and we want to continue that for decades more.”
Kinew travelled to Washington, D.C. as part of a group mission aimed at strengthening the links between the two countries before President Donald Trump imposes crippling tariffs next month on goods imported from Canada. Carol Sanders has the story.
“The purpose of the trip here is not for us to come down and try to issue ultimatums and things like that,” Premier Wab Kinew said in Washington on Wednesday. (Ben Curtis / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Feb. 13, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that 38-year-old bush pilot and RCAF veteran Eddie Richards was rescued six days after his plane went down near an unnamed lake 28 miles north of Snow Lake, a stretch he spent alone but for the howls of timber wolves for company. In Ottawa, the federal minister of finance warned Canadians they must reduce their living standards to combat inflation. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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Trade and tariffs
Gabrielle Piché:
Manufacturing dismay
Manitoba firms make cuts, mull moves, cast uneasy eye on future under heavy U.S. steel, aluminum tariffs
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