What’s happening today
Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson tours Selkirk’s mass vaccination COVID-19 clinic, which opened earlier this month but is not taking new appointments. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Dwindling doses: Inventory at mass vaccination COVID-19 clinics in Manitoba is expected to reach its lowest level today. The province has stopped booking new appointments at three of the five clinics after demand for vaccinations exceeded the number of shots available at each site. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
New sketch after 30 years: Police and relatives of a boy who disappeared from a playground in Victoria, B.C., on this date in 1991 will release an age-enhanced sketch of Michael Dunahee, who was four when he went missing. The case became one of the largest missing child investigations in Canadian history. READ MORE
Late start in Vancouver: The Winnipeg Jets face the Canucks in Vancouver in a particularly late game starting at 9:30 p.m. CT. The Jets won the first of two consecutive games between the teams Monday. READ MORE
Canal blocked by cargo ship: Work continues to clear a massive cargo container ship that turned sideways in the Suez Canal, blocking all traffic in one of the world’s business waterways. READ MORE
Manitobans meet in mixed doubles: Scotties champion Kerri Einarson of Gimli will face former Winnipegger Jennifer Jones in the second playoff round of the Canadian mixed doubles curling championship. Einarson and her teammate, Brad Gushue, beat Alberta’s Brittany Tran and Aaron Sluchinski in a first-round playoff game Tuesday night. Mike Sawatzky reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny this afternoon with a high of 1 C, wind chill as low as -14 this morning and wind from the north at 20 km/h decreasing to 10 km/h this afternoon.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSteven Theriault, CEO and CSO of Cytophage Technologies, a biotech company that uses phages, organisms that kill bacteria.
Set to test spray: A Winnipeg biotech company has received approval for animal testing on a bacteriophage that would stimulate the production of antibodies to kill the virus that causes COVID-19. Martin Cash reports. READ MORE
Recreation report: A city report suggests revamping recreation options over the next 25 years by amalgamating or replacing aging facilities and finding new operators for others. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 24, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that British prime minister Winston Churchill, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. Bernard Montgomery warned the Axis powers that the Allied invasion of Europe was near. It was revealed that on Valentine’s Day, a long-range RCAF Liberator operating from a base in Newfoundland sank a German submarine in what was described as the hottest air-sea battle yet recorded in the western Atlantic. The 1st Ukrainian Army punched 25 to 35 miles through German lines in old Poland, opening an invasion route to Bucovina. In Italy, Mount Vesuvius continued to spew ash and smoke.
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