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Mainly cloudy, with 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning and early this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 1 C, wind chill -5 this morning.
What’s happening today
At McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 7 p.m., Free Press investigative reporter Katrina Clarke will play host to Trent University’s Mandi Gray, who will launch Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law (UBC Press). The book explores how defamation suits have been used to silence those who disclose sexual violence. For more information, click here.
Today’s must-read
An alliance of community organizations wants Winnipeg to follow other North American cities and put non-emergent and non-violent mental health calls into the hands of crisis workers, rather than police.
The Police Accountability Coalition said a community-led crisis response should be the default instead of a “police-first” approach, believing it will help to prevent deaths or other negative outcomes.
“It doesn’t need to end in death,” coalition member Kate Kehler said at a news conference Wednesday. “That’s what the worst-case scenario is, but the ongoing harm of somebody who needs help just getting the same response over and over again, feeling completely demoralized and dehumanized by an authoritative approach, is a problem.” Chris Kitching has the story.
(Daniel Crump / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A new strategy to fight an extremely aggressive type of brain tumour showed promise in a pair of experiments with a handful of patients.
Scientists took patients’ own immune cells and turned them into “living drugs” able to recognize and attack glioblastoma. In the first-step tests, those cells shrank tumours at least temporarily, researchers reported Wednesday. The Associated Press reports.
This combination of MRI scan images shows the progress of a glioblastoma patient who received CAR-T therapy. (New England Journal of Medicine)
On this date
On March 14, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported legislation to be introduced in Manitoba would allow courts to decide in specific cases whether a child could be adopted by a family of another religion. Following an opening round of NATO talks in Paris, Britain was reportedly not planning to stymie a U.S. proposal for a seaborne NATO nuclear force. In Montreal, the chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Labour Congress blasted two musical groups, in Ottawa and Winnipeg, for barring Black singers from participating. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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