Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries. Wind from the north at 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 near noon. Temperature falling to -5 C this afternoon, wind chill near -14.
What’s happening today
Speaking Crow, Winnipeg’s long-running monthly poetry event, facilitated by Plume Winnipeg, returns tonight with an in-person gathering on Tuesday with celebrated Winnipeg Cree poet Rosanna Deerchild as the featured reader. St. Boniface Library, 100-131 Provencher Blvd., 6:30 p.m. Free admission
Rosanna Deerchild (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The Kinew government is facing criticism for not consulting enough with non-profit homeless groups on its new strategy to empty encampments — which moved just one person during the program’s first month.
“Community organizations are doing that work every day,” Right to Housing Coalition member Shauna MacKinnon told the Free Press.
“It just isn’t sustainable because they don’t have the right housing, nor sufficient supports for people,” the University of Winnipeg urban and inner-city studies department chair said. Carol Sanders has the story.
The premier’s homelessness strategy was to begin last month, aiming to clear 300 people from Winnipeg encampments. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
The University of Manitoba Muslim Students’ Association is serving more than 7,000 free meals each evening during the month of Ramadan.
“It’s free for anyone who wants to show up to eat,” said Mahedi Hasan, media manager for UMMSA. “Everyone is welcome.”
During Ramadan, which began Friday and continues until March 29, Muslims break their day-long fast every evening at sunset with an iftar, or meal, usually with family and friends, but also with others in the community. John Longhurst has more here.
Members of the University of Manitoba Muslim Students’ Association prepare iftar at the end of their fast. (John Woods / Free Press)
On this date
On March 4, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported American heavy bombers, with Allied fighter escort, attacked Germany for the third straight day while hundreds of lighter Allied bombers hit targets in northern France. Finland was set to reject a Russian proposal for an armistice, refusing Soviet demands for the internment of German troops and a withdrawal of Finnish forces to within the country’s 1940 borders. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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