Your forecast
Mainly sunny today with fog patches dissipating this morning. A high of 3 C, with the wind chill -15 this morning. Low -6 C tonight.
What’s happening today
Heart plays Canada Life Centre, 300 Portage Ave., with Cheap Trick, tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50-$212 at Ticketmaster. Eva Wasney has a preview here.
Heart frontwomen Nancy (second from left) and Ann Wilson (centre) are back on the road following a health scare. (Criss Cain photo)
Today’s must-read
Take a change in Liberal leadership, throw in an American president hell-bent on a trade war while threatening to make Canada the 51st U.S. state, and you get an election campaign few could have predicted just weeks ago.
Manitoba isn’t a make-or-break battleground for the national parties, but the new dynamics are expected to play out here as well.
Kevin Rollason takes a closer look at its 14 ridings.
On the bright side
A Facebook group that started when COVID-19 arrived in Manitoba has turned into a non-profit organization supporting Winnipeg’s Latin American community.
Fernanda Vallejo is the founder of Latinas Manitoba, which offers free or low-cost programs to assist newcomers. The organization focuses on empowering women.
Aaron Epp has the story.
On this date
On March 24, 1926: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Shanghai, a rift between the extremist and moderate followers of Gen. Chiang Kai Shek deepened as the extremists had reportedly established communist rule in the city, and that moderates had been forced out of key governmental positions. Seven steamers due to arrive in Halifax carried 4,336 new immigrants intending to settle in Canada, making it the largest weekly arrival since the beginning of the year. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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