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Increasing cloudiness this morning, with fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind from the northeast at 20 km/h. High 1 C, wind chill -17 this morning and -7 this afternoon. UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
📖 Toronto writer and scholar Randy Boyagoda visits Winnipeg on Tuesday to deliver the St. Paul’s College Hanley Memorial Lecture at 3 p.m. in Hanley Hall in St. Paul’s College at the University of Manitoba (70 Dysart Rd.). Registration is required; click here to sign up. For more book-related news, check out Ben Sigurdson’s weekly Paper Chase column.
💲The Manitoba government delivers its budget today. Read advance coverage of what’s coming in the section below.
Today’s must-read
A key contractor has testified that he turned in hundreds of false invoices for the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters project, but stressed he did not overcharge the city for the work.
Caspian Projects owner Armik Babakhanians answered many rounds of questions about the financial documents during the public inquiry into the construction project Monday. He admitted to altering invoices from subtrades at his office.
Armik Babakhanians with his lawyer, George Orle. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
“The numbers that were on them were not the original numbers your subtrades put on them?” asked Heather Leonoff, the legal counsel for the provincial inquiry.
“We modified it,” Babakhanians answered.
Leonoff noted the inquiry has heard Caspian, and other companies it controls, exchanged a series of cheques with matching amounts with some subcontractors, as part of a “flow-through” arrangement. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
On the bright side
A TV show creator wants to give Winnipeg businesswomen their 15 minutes of fame.
Jayne Trimble will be in Manitoba’s capital next week to film episodes for the third season of The Empower Women Show, which airs on Rogers TV. Trimble produces and hosts the show, which features interviews with women entrepreneurs, professionals and leaders from Ontario to B.C.
“I’ve always had a passion for empowering women,” said Trimble, who divides her time between Saskatchewan and California. Aaron Epp has more here.
Jayne Trimble has interviewed a number of Manitobans on The Empower Women Show, including Winnipeg-based clothing designer Miriam Delos Santos (right). (Supplied)
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