What’s happening today
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESFinance Minister Scott Fielding: “I think we need to be prepared.”
Fielding on fund: Finance Minister Scott Fielding will hold a news conference on the provincial government’s rainy day fund this morning.
Doses to be delivered: Canada is set to receive about 1.5 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the U.S., one day after all provinces and territories agreed to suspend use of the vaccine for people under 55. READ MORE
Court case continues: A faint hope hearing for the man who has spent 17 years in prison for killing Erin Chorney and burying her in another person’s grave is scheduled to continue in Brandon. READ MORE
Biden might name nominees: U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to release his first slate of judicial nominees as early as today, several media outlets are reporting. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Snow ending later this morning, then mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries, a high of -7 C and a low of -9 C, and wind chill as low as -21 this morning. Wind from the northwest at 70 km/h gusting to 90, decreasing to 50 km/h and gusting to 70 later this morning.
In case you missed it
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSTecleab Misgun Tewolde calls for more police presence in the Central Park neighbourhood.
Brazen daytime shooting: Malak Abas spoke to people who live around Central Park in the wake of a shooting that happened in broad daylight last weekend. READ MORE
School-zone speeding: City Coun. Matt Allard is calling for a report exploring options to spend photo radar revenue from school zones to reconstruct roads. “I’m convinced that we need to do more than just photo enforcement,” he said. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
‘Sad day for Hong Kong’: China has cut the number of directly elected seats in Hong Kong’s legislature as part of an effort to rein in political protest and opposition in the former British colony. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Jets snuff Flames: The Winnipeg Jets beat the Flames in the last of three consecutive games in Calgary last night. The Jets won four out of seven games on a road trip out west. Jeff Hamilton reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 30, 1984: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the president-elect of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, which had condemned provincial restraint, said his marriage to the minister of community services would not conflict with his new duties. Federal Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney stood fast on his support for the equality of French and English when he spoke to a crowd of 2,000 in Winnipeg, and tried to bridge the gap between himself and Manitoba Tories. Mulroney faced heckling and occasional boos, such as when he spoke a single half-sentence in French. Hundreds of confidential medical records were found in an open garbage stand behind a house on Ethelbert Street; the records were X-ray reports from a clinic that had closed three years earlier.
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