Your forecast
Sunny, but with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50, becoming light near noon. High 2 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
Grant Davidson’s folk-pop project Slow Leaves performs tonight at 8 p.m. at the West End Cultural Centre, giving the album Meantime its official Winnipeg debut. Tickets: are $24.34 at wecc.ca and reallovewpg.com.
Grant Davidson (Mike Thiessen / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The sprawling Texas city of Houston is internationally regarded as a success story when it comes to addressing homelessness. So much so that politicians — and reporters — flock to the southern U.S. metropolis from other cities to learn how it works. Recently, Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham was among those who made the trek. Manitoba’s NDP government has also expressed interest in the Houston model.
However, none of the visiting leaders have replicated Houston’s level of success in getting people housed and keeping them housed. Katrina Clarke has the story.
A makeshift shelter in Houston, Texas. (Callaghan O’Hare / Free Press)
On the bright side
Hatch watch is underway in Southern California mountains. Three bald eagle chicks could emerge this week from eggs laid in a nest monitored by nature lovers via a popular online camera feed.
The mother, Jackie, laid the eggs in late January atop a tree overlooking Big Bear Lake high in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. She diligently sat on the eggs for more than two and a half days straight when a recent winter storm blanketed the nest with snow. The Associated Press reports.
You can also watch the Friends of Big Bear Valley eagle nest camera feed live here.
A bald eagle in a nest atop at tree overlooking Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California, Thursday. (Friends of Big Bear Valley via The Associated Press)
On this date
On March 1, 1982: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an elderly couple had moved into the back of a north Winnipeg grocery store while they tried to obtain title to a luxurious Tuxedo home built by their nephew with their life savings. A resident in the Maples said he had to wear earplugs to sleep at night to block out the constant noise from a meat-processing plant in the nearby Inkster Industrial Park. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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