What you need to know
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSManitoba finance minister Scott Fielding.
Provincial budget: Finance Minister Scott Fielding will announce the provincial budget in the legislature this afternoon. On Tuesday, he announced the Tory government will increase the threshold for the payroll tax on companies. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries later this morning, a low of -4 C this morning and a high of 3 C this evening, wind from the south at 20 km/h increasing to 30 km/h and wind chill as low as -10 this morning.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons Tuesday March 10, 2020 in Ottawa. Trudeau plans today to announce federal funding to help provincial health-care systems cope with the increasing number of new coronavirus cases and to help Canadian workers who are forced to isolate themselves. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Coronavirus cash: In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce federal funding this morning to help provinces cope with coronavirus cases and for workers forced to isolate themselves. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Set for sentencing: Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be sentenced in New York City for a 2013 rape and a 2006 criminal sex act. The former movie mogul is facing a minimum five-year sentence. READ MORE
Playoff push: With the return of injured players and trade acquisitions having a positive impact, the Jets are ready for a late-season playoff push, Mike Sawatzky reports. The team begins a three-game road trip out west against the Edmonton Oilers at 8 p.m. READ MORE
In case you missed it
By December 2016, Ljungberg stopped reporting his income to his bankruptcy trustee or making payments. (Supplied)
Comic ‘a con artist’: A judge called former comedian and TV host Jon Ljungberg “nothing but a con artist” while sentencing him to house arrest for two offences under the Bankruptcy Insolvency Act. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Another big win for Biden: Front-runner Joe Biden won at least four out of five U.S. Democratic presidential primaries Tuesday night, leaving Bernie Sanders’ campaign on the brink of collapse. With Washington too close to call, the only certain win for Sanders in the first group of nominating contests since Super Tuesday was North Dakota’s caucus. READ MORE
Burrows Avenue blaze: Firefighters were expected to be at the scene of a blaze that gutted a three-storey residential building through the night. The fire in the 300 block of Burrows Avenue started at about 8 p.m. Tuesday.
On this date
On March 11, 1999: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Manitoba Hydro had bought Centra Gas for $245 million, in a move Hydro CEO Bob Brennan said would benefit taxpayers and consumers. Winnipeg police conducted a series of raids following an investigation into an alleged operation in which teens were lured into sex with drugs; 14 men were charged. READ MORE
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