What you need to know
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
The four previous budgets at City Hall in Winnipeg on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. The City of Winnipeg is committed to developing a four-year budget beginning with 2020 and having it in place by the end of this year.
Winnipeg Free Press 2019.
Bowman on budget: The City of Winnipeg’s preliminary 2019 operating and capital budgets will be introduced today at a special meeting of the executive policy committee. Mayor Brian Bowman has said a big tax hike is one option to deal with a funding shortfall from the provincial government. Aldo Santin reports.
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Cabinet shuffle expected: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet today to fill the veterans affairs portfolio, which Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned amid the SNC-Lavalin affair. A small number of ministers will change roles, a source told The Canadian Press.
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Weather
Your forecast: This morning will be sunny, with a mix of sun and cloud and a 30 per cent chance of flurries this afternoon, a high of -11 C, and windchill as low as -27 this morning and -16 in the afternoon.
What’s happening today
Machuar Mawien was shot by Winnipeg police.
Protest at police HQ: A rally to protest a fatal shooting by police is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. outside the Winnipeg Police Service’s downtown headquarters. The city’s South Sudanese community organized the rally after Machuar Mawien Madut was killed last weekend.
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Friday night face-off: The Jets host the Nashville Predators at 7 p.m. The Jets are one point behind the Preds, who lead the Central Division, but have played three fewer games than Nashville. Mike Sawatzky reports on centre Bryan Little playing right wing.
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Federal funds: Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, is speaking about federal infrastructure spending at a breakfast event organized by the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association.
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In case you missed it
Aaron Dyck was flagged by the secret service as a security risk and isn’t allowed into a meet and greet with former U.S. president Barack Obama. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
No he can’t: A Manitoba teen was denied access to a meet-and-greet with former U.S. president Barack Obama before his speech at Bell MTS Place next week because of unspecified security concerns. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Hospital safety standards: Winnipeg MP Doug Eyolfson is introducing a petition in Parliament today asking Ottawa to tackle violence in hospitals. The Free Press has obtained statistics on hundreds of violent incidents reported at two Winnipeg hospitals. Jessica Botelho-Urbanksi reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 1, 1943: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that hundreds of British bombers struck at the Nazi U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France. The president of Finland, on being inaugurated for his second term, declared the country would continue fighting, in partnership with Germany. Manitobans hoped to raise $600,000 towards the Canadian Red Cross’s effort to raise $10 million. READ MORE
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