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Increasing cloudiness this morning, with wind becoming south at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High -6 C, wind chill -26 this morning and -13 this afternoon.
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The Winnipeg Jets host the New York Rangers at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The family and friends of Kellie Verwey marked what would’ve been her 29th birthday Monday at the Manitoba legislature calling for change to the justice system.
Verwey, a well-known economic development officer in Portage la Prairie, died Jan. 15 after being hit by an alleged impaired driver in a stolen truck.
“Kellie would want everybody to stand up and say this this wrong and we need this to stop,” her mother, Meechelle Best, told reporters Monday outside the chamber.
Interim PC leader Wayne Ewasko offered condolences to Verwey’s family before asking Premier Wab Kinew when his government would act on its pledge of stricter bail measures promised in the first 100 days of taking office.
Kinew said his government has taken steps but first wanted to offer condolences to Verwey’s family. Carol Sanders has the story.
Mother of Kellie Verwey, Meechelle Best, talks to the media in the rotunda during a break in the question period session. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On March 11, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a proposed change to Winnipeg’s taxation of businesses would result in an additional $788,945 in annual revenue for the city; banks, department stores, chain stores, investment bankers, breweries, insurance companies and trust companies would be hit hardest by the change. In a meeting at the Fort Garry Hotel, the Manitoba Twentieth Century Liberal Association passed a resulotion that the British North America Act be amended so that Canada would have the sole power to amend its Constitution. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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