Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, becoming cloudy near noon with showers. Wind from the northeast at 20 km/h becoming northwest 20 this afternoon. High 5 C.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg electro-pop act French Class as well as Paige Drobot and Yellow Choklit perform tonight at Public Domain, 633 Portage Ave., 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 at the door.
Paige Drobot plays Public Domain Friday before heading out on a tour of Japan.(PaigeDrobot.com)
Today’s must-read
Sherry Eastwood enjoys cannabis-laced gummies and the occasional brownie, though it’s not something she partakes in with any regularity.
She’s always careful, imbibing roughly once a month and never a large amount. It makes her feel good, she says, and helps with sleep.
“It’s sort of like you get this carefree feeling, nothing really matters anymore. It’s better than drinking. You just feel happy, you start laughing about stupid things and you eat snacks,” Eastwood, 70, says with a chuckle.
Eastwood is part of a small but growing cohort of seniors using cannabis in Canada. The number of users 65 and older has been increasing since the Trudeau government legalized marijuana in 2018, now making up about seven per cent of all users, according to Statistics Canada. Janine LeGal has the story.
Canadians 65 and older are the fastest-growing demographic of cannabis users. Seniors also account for the highest percentage of first-time users. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
A Winnipeg firefighter who was hailed as a hero for battling a wildfire while vacationing in Los Angeles in January has been honoured with a King Charles III Coronation Medal.
Romeo Petit, a lieutenant with the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, was presented with the medal by Premier Wab Kinew in a private ceremony at the legislature in January.
“It was pretty surreal to shake the premier’s hand and get this medal. It was a pretty cool moment, to say the least,” Petit said Thursday. Tyler Searle has more here.
WFPS Lt. Romeo Petit (left) and Premier Wab Kinew had a private meeting in the Manitoba Legislature in January, when Petit received the King Charles III Coronation Medal. (Supplied)
On this date
On March 14, 1975: The Winnipeg Free Press reported city police were investigating two apparent murder-suicides, in which a woman and a man were shot in a downtown dance studio, and a woman and her daughter stabbed to death and a man shot in a West Kildonan house. At five hospitals in Brandon and Winnipeg, 2,800 registered and licensed practical nurses were set to walk off the job the following Monday, which would make it the first nurses’ strike in Manitoba’s history. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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