Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries early this morning. Clearing near noon. Wind from the northwest at 50 km/h gusting to 70 becoming north at 30 this afternoon. Temperature falling to -13 C this afternoon. Wind chill -15 this morning and -23 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Ashley Au’s Figure of Eight, a 10-minute choral piece grounded in Au’s experiences witnessing a nine-hour triple-bypass procedure, debuts at the Buhler Gallery tonight at 7 p.m. in a free public performance. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
Ashley Au scrubs in for research purposes. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Relatives of two victims of a serial killer are speaking out after a discovery at a landfill outside Winnipeg, with one saying “to hell with” those who were against searching the site.
Possible human remains were identified Wednesday in material found at Prairie Green Landfill north of the city. Excavation work at the landfill and a search through material for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran — two of Jeremy Skibicki’s four victims — began in December.
At a news conference Thursday, Melissa Robinson, a cousin of Harris, criticized the Winnipeg Police Service and the previous Progressive Conservative government under premier Heather Stefanson for refusing to search the landfill. Carol Sanders and Adam Treusch have the story.
From left: Melissa Robinson, cousin of Morgan Harris; Elle Harris, daughter of Morgan Harris; Jorden Myran, sister of Marcedes Myran; and Elder Geraldine Shingoose (Brittany Hobson / The Canadian Press)
On the bright side
Winnipeg Muslims may have begun fasting for Ramadan but their minds are on others who may be hungry.
Three city groups are among 45 Islamic organizations across Canada participating in the #FastFeed Ramadan Food Bank Campaign to Combat Hunger.
The campaign, launched by the Canadian Council of Imams, is being supported by the Islamic Social Services Association, the Canadian Muslim Women’s Institute and the Manitoba Islamic Association.
The campaign, which also uses the name Give 30, will take place during Ramadan from Friday to March 29. John Longhurst has more here.
On this date
On Feb. 28, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported MLA Thelma Bessie Forbes would be the first female speaker of the Manitoba legislature. The throne speech indicated premier Duff Roblin’s government would introduce uniform time throughout the province, with daylight saving time in the summer and standard time during the winter. The Winnipeg police commission would continue its secret inquiry into what it called “a shortage of funds at the police station.” While in Winnipeg, federal NDP leader Tommy Douglas said his party would never form a coalition with another party. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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