Your forecast
Cloudy, with snow beginning this morning, 2 to 4 cm. Wind from the northeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High -2 C, wind chill near minus 12. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
✒️ It’s last call for poets to submit work for the annual Writes of Spring project, as the window to send in work closes today.
The theme for this year’s Writes of Spring, presented in conjunction with Plume Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Arts Council, is “land and sea,” and the dozen poems will be selected for publication in the April 25 Free Press by melanie brannagan frederiksen and Ariel Gordon. Selected poets will also be invited to read at the Writes of Spring launch on Sunday, April 26 at 2 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location. For details and to get your work in, click here.
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew expressed his appreciation for newly selected federal NDP leader Avi Lewis and said the two will work together for “a positive vision of Canada.”
“I just love Avi, he’s just a great person and we don’t have to agree on everything in order to do big things together,” Kinew told reporters at the RBC Convention Centre following Lewis’s victory speech.
Lewis, a Vancouver-based filmmaker and activist, was chosen as the federal party’s new leader Sunday morning following a leadership convention in Winnipeg. He received 39,734 votes and defeated four rivals for the leadership. Aaron Epp has the story.
Avi Lewis, centre, who was proclaimed as the new leader of the NDP, celebrates with former interim leader Don Davies, left, and Manitoba premier Wab Kinew at the party convention in Winnipeg Sunday. (John Woods / The Canadian Press)
On the bright side
Brandon resident Scott Kirk’s volunteering journey with Sport Manitoba started in 2019 when he applied to serve as mission staff for the Western Canada Summer Games.
Since then Kirk has volunteered in multiple provincial and national competitions in summer and winter, taking on various essential roles.
“Mission staff are the conduit between host society and the teams,” he explains. “We make sure the games run as smoothly as they can. Our goal is to make sure coaches, managers and athletes can focus on the sport while we deal with everything else that may pop up along the way.” AV Kitching has more here.
Scott Kirk learned to donate his time to kids sport watching his father ‘who just showed up and gave his time.’ (Supplied)
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