Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with chance of flurries this morning. Expected high is -2 C, with a low of -8, wind chill of -12 this morning.
What’s happening today
The Honeysliders and Show Pony play at the Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., 10 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona and California are being added to the list of destinations for Manitobans willing to travel for surgical and diagnostic care as the province tries to address a huge backlog of procedures. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
University of California San Francisco Health – Mount Zion campus. (Supplied)
On this date
On March 10, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an oral vaccine against polio was being tested in Minnesota, and the executive officer of the Minnesota department of health said if it proved effective, “the world is on the way toward the eradication of [polio].” In Ottawa, prairie grain growers made their bid to the federal cabinet for $300,000,000 in deficiency payments, but also said if grain quotas were increased those payments would not be as expensive. In Toronto, an 81-year old woman was tortured to death in an apparent attempt to make her divulge the hiding-place of money she kept in her Victorian-style home. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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