Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40, increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. Temperature falling to -10 C this afternoon, with wind chill -8 this morning and -20 this afternoon.
Canada’s warmest winter on record could have far-reaching effects on everything from wildfire season to erosion, climatologists say, while offering a preview of what the season could resemble in the not-so-distant future unless steps are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Winter comes to a close on Tuesday night — early Wednesday on Canada’s East Coast — with the arrival of the spring equinox. But climatologist David Phillips says it’s almost as if this winter in Canada never happened.
“I called it the lost season,” said Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. The Canadian Press reports.
A windsurfer cuts through the waves along Lake Ontario overlooking the Toronto skyline on a warm winter day in February. (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
This year’s Architecture + Design Film Festival, which kicks off today at various locations presents an opportunity for viewers to take in a world of urbanist ideas through international films and visiting filmmakers.
Festival founder and curator Susan Algie also sees the six-day event as an opportunity to imagine a better Winnipeg. Eva Wasney has the story.
Diaspora, directed by Winnipeg’s Deco Dawson, follows the story of a newly landed Ukrainian immigrant and features many North End landmarks. (Supplied)
Artist Jordan Miller’s latest collection of works, Letting Go, is on now at Cre8ery, 125 Adelaide St., Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Alan Small has an interview with Miller here.
Jordan Miller (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
The Winnipeg Jets face the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The Kinew government promised to do everything it can — including possibly expediting permits and expanding road weight limits — to avoid a fuel supply disruption after a pipeline shutdown diverted the main supply of Winnipeg’s gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
“This is a situation that we’re going to have to live with as Manitobans for the next few months,” Premier Kinew told reporters Monday. “The first thing we’re doing is we’re using the weight of government to lean on these companies to do everything that they can to bring in gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, by truck and by train,” and is also looking at backup plans, such as getting fuel brought in from North Dakota if necessary.
Fuel restrictions are not on the horizon, the premier said. Katie May has the story.
The Imperial Oil distribution plant on Henderson Highway in East Saint Paul. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Spring is almost here — officially, at least. The vernal equinox arrives today, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere. The Associated Press has more here.
Visitors hold their hands out as they celebrate the Spring equinox atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, in 2019. (Marco Ugarte / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On March 19, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported residents of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana saw a meteor shooting through the sky, parts of which later fell to earth and were being sought in the two provinces. In Winnipeg, five of six winners of cars at the recent automobile show were surprised to learn they might not receive the vehicles, thanks to a lawsuit claiming the cars were won by lottery and therefore illegally. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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