Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness early this morning, clearing late this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -6 C, wind chill -24 this morning and -10 this afternoon. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
🍽️ The inaugural Dine and Discover Downtown, hosted by the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ, runs from March 11 to 22 with 31 neighbourhood restaurants participating. Eva Wasney has a preview here.
Capital Grill and Bar owner/chef Wayne Martin and Downtown BIZ CEO Kate Fenske show off some of Martin’s culinary creations. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
📖 Saskatchewan Métis author Tara Gereaux launches the novel Wild People Quiet at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m., where she’ll be joined in conversation by Shelagh Rogers, former host of CBC’s The Next Chapter.
Today’s must-read
Eight unions have joined forces to create urgency around worker concerns about safety — on the job and on their commutes — in downtown Winnipeg.
A new coalition is calling on government officials to take swift and concrete action to better protect area employees and visitors.
Keri D’Avignon-Nault, national vice-president of Manitoba and Saskatchewan for the Canada Employment and Immigration Union – Public Service Alliance, and Gord Delbridge, president of CUPE 500 (John Woods / Free Press)
“(Incident) reports have been growing in all sectors. That’s why all of us have come together,” said Gord Delbridge, a spokesperson for Workers for Downtown Public Safety.
“It’s happening at our pools. It’s happening at our libraries. It’s happening to workers working in our streets. It’s happening everywhere.”
The group represents thousands of employees from all three levels of government, firefighters and paramedics, bus drivers, retail workers and community service workers, among others. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
On the bright side
SportChek Polo Park employee Lean was walking down the stairs of the two-storey department store Sunday evening when he caught a glimpse of someone he was sure was legendary NFL player Jason Kelce.
At first, he didn’t believe his own eyes.
“I was like, ‘No way, no way,’ said Lean, who spoke to the Free Press Tuesday, asking his last name not be published. “And then you bring up a picture on your phone, you compare. Man, he is huge in real life. I look like a little kid next to him.” Scott Billeck has more here.
SportChek Polo Park employee Lean, left, poses with Jason Kelce and another employee Sunday. (Supplied)
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