Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a high of -5 C, wind chill as low as -18 and wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h.
What’s happening today
Country artist Warren Zeiders plays the Burton Cummings Theatre at 8 p.m. Zeiders is so popular that the concert is sold out.
Aaron Zeiders (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are going gangbusters in parts of Manitoba, but it seems the party’s “axe the tax” appeal against the Liberals’ carbon pricing hasn’t resonated with Winnipeg voters.
If a federal election were held today, a new poll suggests it would be status quo for the federal Tories in Manitoba’s capital, even as it leads in polls across the country almost two years before an election, writes Kevin Rollason.
On the bright side
Even if the weather was a little colder than normal, Winnipeggers didn’t seem to notice, as sweet treat enthusiasts, many decked out in parkas, lined up for the opening day of Bridge Drive-In’s 67th season Saturday. Malak Abas reports.
Jen Broesky (from left), Miranda Hood and Declan Hood enjoy their first BDI treat of the season. (Malak Abas / Free Press)
On this date
On March 25, 1925: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ottawa, the acting federal finance minister J.A. Hobb presented his second budget; applause was confined to the government benches. In Calgary, the commissioner for the Western Canada Coal Operators’ Association said the announced budget increase of duty on slack coal from 14 cents to 50 cents would help the situation in Winnipeg, as it would put slack coal nearly on par with mine run coal. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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