Your forecast
Sunny, with wind up to 15 km/h. High -17 C, wind chill -37 this morning and -24 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
Most Canadians can look forward to a warmer-than-normal spring, but they should also brace for the season’s “profound mood swings,” according to The Weather Network’s latest outlook.
The forecast released Wednesday predicts that the unusually mild winter seen across much of the country thanks to El Niño conditions will pave the way for even more pleasant weather in the coming weeks, but not without some interruptions. The Canadian Press reports.
Most Canadians can look forward to a warmer-than-normal spring. (Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press)
What’s happening today
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s latest play, Diggers, opens at Prairie Theatre Exchange tonight and runs until March 10. Ben Waldman has a preview here, and ticket information and showtimes can be found at pte.mb.ca.
Chance Jones as Abdul and Warona Setshwaelo as Sheila in Prairie Theatre Exchange’s production of Diggers. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
The union for Manitoba nurses, who are subjected to violence while on the job, is asking the province to explore the use of weapon scanners at Health Sciences Centre — equipment one Ontario hospital calls “a game changer” for safety.
“They’ve got to do something to make our facilities safer,” said Darlene Jackson, president of the Manitoba Nurses’ Union, which posts its concerns about violence occurring in the workplace daily. Carol Sanders has the story.
An Evolv Weapons Detection System demonstration at Windsor Regional Hospital last fall. (Maureen Revait /WindsorNewsToday.ca)
On the bright side
Toby Gillies and Natalie Baird show off Outside Light, a 300-foot mural the artists painted in the tunnel at St. Boniface Hospital, which connects to the McEwen Building, home to the hospital’s mental health program. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 28, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that at Fort Churchill, a $2-million explosion and fire destroyed buildings and equipment at a joint U.S.-Canada rocket base; no one was injured. In Winnipeg, a three-family terrace that had been damaged by fire in January just before the city health department was set to padlock it for overcrowding and plumbing violations, would now be retrofitted to make it suitable for low-income housing. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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