Your forecast
Cloudy, with rain showers beginning late this morning, possible flurries and risk of freezing rain near noon. Wind becoming south at 30 km/h this morning then west 40 gusting to 60 late this afternoon. High 6 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
Tonight at 7 p.m., Winnipeg art and architectural historian Marieke Gruwel launches Manitoba Women in Design, presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation. The book details the contributions of women to the province’s built landscape — as designers, planners, architects and more. Ben Waldman has a preview here. McNally Robinson, Grant Park.
Marieke Gruwel, executive director of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
The Winnipeg Jets host the Anaheim Ducks at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg’s police chief took the rare step of criticizing the child-welfare system after a string of random and violent incidents involving kids in care, including a machete attack on a woman waiting at a St. Vital bus stop.
“The violence that we’re seeing is remarkable. They’re wielding machetes and using them almost at what appears to be indiscriminately,” Winnipeg Police Service Chief Danny Smyth said Thursday at a news conference to discuss the spate of attacks that police say were committed by a group of young people who know each other. Erik Pindera has the story.
Chief Danny Smyth (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Nine-year-old Lucas Mason Yao loves the Vancouver Canucks, his pet bunny Chomp and pi, the mathematical constant that’s celebrated every March 14 around the world.
Yao, from Pitt Meadows, B.C., has memorized the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter to 2,030 digits, far beyond the 3.14 that’s close enough for most people. The Canadian Press has the story.
Lucas Mason Yao (Cindy Liu / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On March 15, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported attorney general Al Mackling announced fraud charges in the Churchill Forestry Industries case would be prosecuted within the Manitoba courts. More provinces were moving to end a six-month national strike by elevator company employees. A Japanese company indicated it was prepared to enter into an agreement with the Manitoba hog producers’ marketing board that could result in the export of 900,000 Manitoba hogs to Japan. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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