Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High -9 C, wind chill -25 this morning and -16 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Lyric coloratura soprano Lara Secord-Haid marks her Manitoba Chamber Orchestra debut tonight at the inaugural offering of the MCO’s new Spring Series at the Crescent Arts Centre, 525 Wardlaw Ave., 7:30 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Lara Secord-Haid (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Winnipeg composer Tetyana Haraschuk, with Steppe Kolektyv, performs at Handsome Daughter, 61 Sherbrook St., at 8 p.m. Alan Small has the story of how Haraschuk set her thoughts about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to music, which will be released as a new album, Until the Sun Comes, in August.
Tetyana Haraschuk (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Haunted by the abuse he suffered at the hands of his trusted high school football coach, a Winnipeg man took his own life before Kelsey McKay could be held responsible for his crimes.
In a Winnipeg courtroom Tuesday, a judge heard the devastating impact McKay’s abuse had on the man, in his own voice and words.
“He has absolutely destroyed parts of my life that I will never get back,” the man said in a police video statement recorded in late April 2022, two weeks after several other victims told police they had been sexually abused by their former coach. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Former Winnipeg high school coach Kelsey McKay leaves the Woodworth building for a break from his sentencing hearing on Tuesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what, for a regular farm hand, would be backbreaking labour checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers.
The boxy robot — named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North Sea coast — is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime colour. The Associated Press reports.
Allan Visser, a third-generation tulip farmer, is seen next to Theo the robot, in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands. (Peter Dejong / The Associated Press)
On this date
On March 20, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Russian forces captured Vinnytsia, one of Nazi Germany’s last big defence bastions in northwest Ukraine. Lt.-Gen. H.D.G. Crerar was appointed commander of the 1st Canadian Army. In Ottawa, prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced the appointment of chief justice E.A. MacPherson of the Manitoba court of King’s bench as chief justice the court of appeals for the province. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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