Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness this morning with a high of -2 C and a low of -8 C.
What’s happening today
If you’re a fan of Ted Lasso, the award-winning series about an American football coach attempting to lead an English soccer — er, football — team to victory, the show returns for the first episode of its third (and likely final) season today, streaming on Apple TV+.
Affable coach Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) returns to screens for a third season.(Colin Hutton/Apple TV+)
Today’s must-read
Drug deaths are hitting record numbers in Winnipeg’s core, while the use of life-saving medication in suspected opioid overdoses continues to surge. Chris Kitching has the story.
A bus shelter at Main Street and William Avenue, where a woman recently overdosed and was given naloxone by training officers and cadets. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On March 15, 1940: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Nazi Germany was said to be consolidating its position in southeastern Europe, and unconfirmed reports indicated Germany was planning to invade Holland next. Britain and France vowed to fight the war till the end and watched for any sign Adolf Hitler planned a major military strike in Western Europe. Near Medicine Hat, Alta., 11 people were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a pusher engine; two Winnipeggers were among those injured. In Winnipeg, an arrangement looked imminent that would turn over buildings at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus to the federal government for use as a school for radio operators under the British Commonwealth air training program. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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