Your forecast
Clearing early this morning, with wind north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light late this afternoon. Temperature falling to -13 C this morning then rising. Wind chill -23 this morning and -16 this afternoon. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and cultural group Folklorama have teamed up to host performances and storytelling from Winnipeg’s Chilean, Greek, Irish and Indigenous communities. Canadian Museum of Human Rights, 6 p.m. Tickets: $65 available online.
Kefi Manitoba Inc. performs at the CMHR tonight. (Dr. Tse Li Luk photo)
Today’s must-read
The NDP government’s second budget aims to soften the blow of U.S. and Chinese tariffs with contingency plans and a record $3.7 billion in capital spending intended to spur economic growth and create jobs in the face of uncertainty.
But the cost of “Trump-proofing” Manitoba’s economy could result in a whopping $1.9-billion deficit, the provincial budget released Thursday said.
Finance Minister Adrien Sala said the province’s defence plan in the face of a trade war is to launch a $3.7-billion capital spending program — the largest ever — to spur economic growth and create jobs in the face of uncertainty. Chris Kitching and Carol Sanders have the story.
Finance Minister Adrien Sala (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On March 21, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the federal government’s budget showed little in the way of personal or corporate tax cuts and projected a surplus for the coming year. Winnipeg mining company representatives welcomed the government’s lifting of gold restrictions but had some reservations. The Winnipeg school board formally censured trustee H.B. Parker for “fostering a lack of respect for the board’s policies” after he sent out a questionnaire soliciting first-grade teachers’ opinions on kindergarten; Parker had some weeks earlier called for the abolition of kindergartens from the Winnipeg public school system. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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