Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness, with a 60 per cent chance of flurries or rain this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h near noon. High 2 C, wind chill -9 this morning.
What’s happening today
Playwright Thomas Morgan Jones’ A Killing at La Cucina: A Lucia Dante Mystery opens tonight at Prairie Theatre Exchange. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
Jack Grinhaus is directing A Killing at La Cucina: A Lucia Dante Mystery at Prairie Theatre Exchange. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
For now, hammers keep swinging and the work continues. Behind the scenes, Sean Hogan and his staff wonder how U.S. tariffs will affect business.
“If the tariffs happen, the goods that we are installing will become more expensive,” Hogan said. “Most likely, that will cause a pinch on affordable housing availability in Manitoba.”
Hogan is the executive director of Build Inc., an Indigenous-led social enterprise that trains Manitobans facing barriers to renovate homes in disrepair. His is among the 62 per cent of Manitoba businesses that have already experienced or are anticipating negative effects from U.S. tariffs, a new Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce survey found. Gabrielle Piché has the story.
Build Inc. may review its supply chain as management considers how operations can remain “as stable as possible,” Sean Hogan executive director of Build Inc. said. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
A mixed-use property in the East Exchange District has been named one of the top five buildings in the Americas by a prestigious architecture competition.
Pumphouse, designed by 5468796 Architecture Inc., is a finalist for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Organized by the Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture in Chicago, the prize recognizes projects that redefine design excellence, innovation and social impact across North, Central and South America. Aaron Epp has more here.
Sasa Radulovic and his colleagues started working on the 119,000-square-foot project in 2015. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 26, 1943: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Tunisia, Allied troops recaptured the Kasserine Pass and occupied the high ground on both sides, and advanced 10 to 15 miles northeast as defeated German forces under Rommel withdrew. Soviet forces pressing toward the Dnieper River broke through at several points far west of Kharkov and swung around to encircle German garrisons that were being wiped out in hand-to-hand combat. In Winnipeg, influenza still ran rampant, with hundreds of citizens confined to their homes, and many to their beds. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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