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Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -5, wind chill -19 this morning and -9 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Nearly 70 years after they were switched at birth in a rural Manitoba hospital, two men are set to get a formal apology from the provincial government.
On Thursday, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew will offer an apology to Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais in the legislature, said the men’s lawyer Bill Gange. It’s expected both men will be present in the gallery. Katie May has the story.
Edward Ambrose was sent home with the wrong family in 1955 and the error was not discovered until more than six decades later. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti launch Bury the Lead, the first in the Quill & Packet mystery series named after the fictional newspaper in the fictional cottage country town of Port Ellis, Ont., tonight at McNally Robinson Grant Park, 1120 Grant Ave., at 7 p.m. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
Kate Hilton (Betsy Hilton photo)
Today’s must-read
A majority of Winnipeggers is in favour of reopening Portage and Main to pedestrians six years after an overwhelming “no,” a new poll suggested ahead of a council vote Thursday.
More than a quarter of those polled in the Free Press-Probe Research survey said they voted against the proposal in a 2018 plebiscite, but have since changed their mind.
“When you look at this new information, I think a lot of people, like me, are making a different decision than they did six years ago,” Mayor Scott Gillingham said Wednesday. Chris Kitching has the story.
Portage and Main (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
A wrecked seagoing vessel discovered decades ago off the Florida Keys has recently been identified as a British warship that sank in the 18th century.
National Park Service archaeologists used new research to determine that the wreckage first spotted in 1993 near Dry Tortugas National Park is the HMS Tyger, the agency said in a news release late last week. The findings were recently published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. The Associated Press reports.
A “broad arrow” marking on a copper barrel band denoting ownership by the British military during recent archeological survey in Dry Tortugas National Park, Fla. (Brett Seymour/National Park Service via The Associated Press)
On this date
On March 21, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that prime minister Lester Pearson, in a telegram to Manitoba premier Duff Roblin, promised the federal government would embark on a “constructive review” of the employment problem at Winnipeg’s Trans-Canada Air Lines overhaul base; Roblin said Pearson’s message cleared the air of “a fog of misunderstanding and suspicion.” Manitoba officials expressed fear that phasing out the steam heating plant at the radar base in Cranberry Portage could result in millions of dollars in damage. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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