COVID-19 restrictions relaxed
Sachit Mehra, owner of East India Co. says he wants to be respectful of people’s opinions. (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
Card mandate kiboshed: Proof of vaccination is not required in most public spaces in Manitoba as of early this morning. The Free Press spoke with some businesses that have chosen to scrap the restriction. Chris Kitching reports. READ MORE
Maintaining some measures: Health-care, daycare and education workers no longer have to be vaccinated or tested as of today. Carol Sanders reports on how those who work with some of Manitoba’s most vulnerable residents say they will continue to do all they can to keep people safe. READ MORE
Post-secondary protocols: Most of Manitoba’s major post-secondary institutes are keeping vaccine and mask protocols in place, but Red River College Polytechnic will no longer require visitors to show proof of immunization. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSChristopher Sklepowich, Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus board chair, stressed Tuesday’s performance at Canada Life Centre is bigger than both Hoosli and the Jets/Montreal Canadiens game.
‘A very emotional moment’: The Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus will sing O Canada and the Ukrainian national anthem before tonight’s Jets game. READ MORE
RRSP deadline: Today is the RRSP contribution deadline for the 2021 tax year. A new poll found 26 per cent of Manitobans deferred or stopped contributing to their RRSP or TFSA accounts amid inflation. Gabrielle Piché reports. READ MORE
State of the union speech: U.S. President Joe Biden will give his first state of the union address tonight as he tries to guide his country out of the pandemic, reboot his domestic agenda and confront Russia’s aggression. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Ready to resume talks: Contract talks are scheduled to resume for Safeway and FreshCo workers across Manitoba. The collective agreement for nearly 2,000 workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 expires on March 19. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
‘An opportunity for us’: The Jets will need a marvellous March if they hope to make the NHL playoffs. They will start with a match against the Montreal Canadiens tonight. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Weather
Border collie Chloe leads her owner, Clayton Heppner, at Brandon’s Optimist Soccer Park on Monday. (Tim Smith / Brandon Sun)
Your forecast: The first day of March will include more snow, as with seemingly every day this winter. Sunny for most of the day with a high of -10 C, wind chill as low as -25, peak winds at 10 km/h from the west later this morning and light snow beginning tonight.
In case you missed it
People enter the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Feb. 5, 2018. A jury in Winnipeg is expected to hear closing arguments today in the murder trial for a man accused of fatally stabbing a three-year-old boy in 2019. Daniel Jensen, 34, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hunter Smith-Straight. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
‘Cowardly attack’: Amanda Castel, 44, was sentenced to time served plus probation Monday for randomly attacking two women in their 90s in separate incidents downtown. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Keeping masks mandatory: Nearly one-third of businesses say they will continue to require customers to wear masks when the province lifts the requirement on March 15, an online survey by the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce found. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 1, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported the Manitoba government advanced bills that would repeal the Supplementary Revenue Act and increase the tax on gasoline by two cents. Inclusion of the fair wage rate in all government road contracts was being considered by the province’s minister of public works after complaints that some contractors had paid their men only 20 cents an hour. The president of the Canadian Wheat Pool was confident of his organization’s bright future after conferences in Great Britain.
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