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Sunny with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Expected high is -7 C, low -12, with wind chill as low as -24 this morning.
What’s happening today
Canada’s banking regulator says in light of the decision by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to shut down Silicon Valley Bank, it has temporarily seized assets of the Canadian branch to preserve their value.
U.S. banking regulators were forced to urgently close the California-based institution on Friday after billions of dollars were withdrawn by fearful depositors. The Canadian Press reports.
Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. (Jeff Chiu / The Associated Press)
Today’s must-read
The province has allocated $81 million to increase the average wage to $19 per hour for disability service workers. Support workers such as Trista Malinowski with Inclusion Selkirk are celebrating the victory. Malak Abas has the story.
Trista Malinowski, who works with Inclusion Selkirk, says the pay increase for Manitoba disability service workers will benefit both employees and their clients. (Supplied)
On this date
On March 13, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported members of the United Scottish Association celebrated the organization’s president, R.D. Waugh, at the Royal Alexandria Hotel, to wish him well as he departed for Europe to serve as chairman of the Saar Valley commission. According to a report out of London, 30,000 non-Bolshevik Russians, after breaking through Bolshevik forces and marching 2,000 miles, had arrived at Verkhne-Udinsk. In New York, Broadway theatregoers were kept at bay by bandits brandishing revolvers as they robbed a jewelry store; one pedestrian who attempted to intervene was shot. Search our archives for more here.
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