Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with risk of freezing drizzle this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 3 C, wind chill -6 this morning.
What’s happening today
Corb Lund, with 49 Winchester, plays the Burton Cummings Theatre, starting at 8 p.m. Alan Small has a preview here.
Corb Lund (Noah Fallis photo)
The Winnipeg Jets host the Nashville Predators at Canada Life Centre, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has ordered a review of a harassment-reporting policy for government employees, after a former Tory cabinet minister said she was groped by an ex-MLA.
Kinew said he was disturbed to learn of the alleged assault against Sarah Guillemard, who said Friday — International Women’s Day — the incident occurred at a gala event in March 2017.
“She’s somebody that I spent two terms alongside and have respect for,” the NDP premier told the Free Press on Tuesday. Chris Kitching and Danielle Da Silva have the story.
Former Fort Richmond MLA Sarah Guillemard (Mike Sudoma / Free Press files)
On the bright side
It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a “bump on the sea floor” where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada’s only known live coral reef.
Deep sea ecologist Cherisse Du Preez worked with the Kitasoo Xai’xais and Heiltsuk First Nations and began searching for the Lophelia coral reef in 2021, taking a remote controlled submersible deep into the ocean in Finlayson Channel, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.
All the science and rationale in the world says the coral reef shouldn’t exist here, but the First Nations knew something was there, said De Preez. The Canadian Press reports.
Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast. (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
On this date
On March 13, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Britain accused the Soviet Union of a deliberate act of aggression involving murder in the shooting down of a Lincoln bomber near Hamburg, Germany. In Winnipeg, the North End streetcar parking lot was transferred from the Winnipeg Electric Co. to the Greater Winnipeg Transit Co. as part of negotiations between the two companies. An Austrian newspaper reported mutiny broke out in a Soviet tank unit in Hungary when news of Joseph Stalin’s death became known. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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