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What’s happening today
Federal Liberal leadership contenders will take the stage again tonight for the English-language debate in Montreal — their last shot to confront each other in person and shake up the race. The Canadian Press reports.
From left: Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould and Frank Baylis (Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
The province no longer tracks the emergency protocol used to alert health-care staff of violent or aggressive incidents inside Manitoba hospitals.
The unannounced move comes after the Free Press reported on a surge in code white incidents in some Winnipeg hospitals in 2019.
A code white, triggered when health-care workers or security guards are confronted with violent or aggressive persons and need help to de-escalate the situation, were on the rise in three city hospitals in 2017 and 2018, the Free Press reported in 2019. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Health Sciences Centre recorded 501 code whites, indicating violent and aggressive incidents, in 2018. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Urban Circle Training Centre has launched a new holistic course to recruit more early child-care educators and increase diversity among daycare staff across Winnipeg.
The centre has partnered with Red River College Polytechnic to run an accredited diploma program that will equip graduates with academic and Indigenous cultural lessons. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
Urban Circle Training Centre has partnered with Red River College Polytechnic to run an accredited diploma program that will equip graduates with academic and Indigenous cultural lessons. (Mike Aporius / Free Press files)
On this date
On Feb. 25, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported two Winnipeg airmen, a pilot and a mechanic, were injured but managed to escape death when their aircraft cracked up as they attempted to land at Lac du Bonnet during a heavy snowstorm. Japan controlled strategic gateways in Manchuria as its armed forces sought to subdue the Chinese province of Jehol. The Japanese delegation withdrew the country from the League of Nations after the assembly adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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