Your forecast
Clearing late this morning, with wind becoming west at 30 km/h gusting to 50 early this afternoon. High 0 C, wind chill -13 this morning. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Prophecy, a Theatre Projects Manitoba production that opens tonight at the Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne Ave., was fuelled by playwright Jessy Ardern’s endless fascination with Trojan women, including the seer Cassandra, and how their stories tend to loop back into relevance before receding into the background. Runs until March 30, tickets $20-$30. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
Jessy Ardern (left) with Theatre Projects Manitoba artistic director Suzie Martin. Ardern is the solo performer of Prophecy, her take on the Iliad. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
The two men vying to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba will face off Wednesday night at a debate in Winnipeg.
Wally Daudrich, a lodge owner from Churchill, and Obby Khan, the MLA for Fort Whyte and a former cabinet minister, are to go head-to-head at the Caboto Centre at 7 p.m. Carol Sanders reports.
PC leadership candidates Wally Daudrich (left) and Obby Khan face each other in a debate at the Caboto Centre, Wednesday evening. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Winnipeggers look set to pay a hefty garbage fee hike this year, after an initial plan to reduce it was trashed.
On Tuesday, Mayor Scott Gillingham revealed a motion Coun. Ross Eadie (Mynarski) previously promised to introduce to reduce the fee hike has now been ruled out.
Instead, council’s executive policy committee approved an initial proposal to raise the annual per-home garbage fee from $93 to $254 in 2025 (prorated to $190.50, as it would take effect April 1). Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
Winnipeg city council’s executive policy committee approved an initial proposal to raise the annual per-home garbage fee from $93 to $254 in 2025. (Boris Minkevich / Free Press files)
On the bright side
The Winnipeg Humane Society has asked the city and provincial governments to make grants and tax breaks to housing developers contingent on them building a minimum number of affordable units that allow pets.
“There is a Canada-wide shortage of pet-inclusive housing,” said Krista Boryskavich, director of animal advocacy at the humane society, said after unveiling the proposal to the City of Winnipeg’s executive policy committee on Tuesday.
The proposal asks for 50 per cent of affordable units in a new build to be pet-friendly. Kevin Rollason has more here.
Krista Boryskavich of the Winnipeg Humane Society tabled a proposal to the City of Winnipeg’s executive policy committee Tuesday, that 50 per cent of affordable units in a new build be pet-friendly. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On March 19, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, a French spokesman said Locarno members had agreed tentatively on a plan to adjust German reoccupation of the Rhineland that was a compromise between the British and French viewpoints. Widespread flooding in the U.S. from western Pennsylvania to Vermont had killed at least 39 people and left thousands homeless. A King’s Counsel lawyer told the Manitoba legislature the province’s rights under the Constitution would be fully protected under any amendments to the British North America Act. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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