Your forecast
Sunny with a high of -13 C, wind chill as low as -28 this morning and wind from the north at 20 km/h gusting to 40.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the San Jose Sharks, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s official Opposition and union leaders are demanding the Tory government give proof its plan to allow private stores to sell hard liquor won’t cost the provincial treasury. Lawmakers are debating Bill 9, which would allow 226 hotel beer vendors, eight specialty wine stores, 168 rural liquor vendors and 50 craft liquor manufacturers to sell the entire catalogue of Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries products, including spirits. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
(Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
The creators of a new climate change curriculum want to help their teacher colleagues overcome personal fears about the planet’s future and learn how to educate students on the subject in a way that empowers them to take action.
“It’s tough to teach about something that’s really distressing,” said Scott Durling, a Grade 6-8 teacher in Winnipeg who is developing lesson plans on ecoanxiety. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Middle-schoolers took a trip to their school division’s land-based learning facility to learn more about the indigenous plants native to West St. Paul. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On March 6, 1929: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, Parliament agreed that provincial powers over water that had been granted to British Columbia would also be extended to the Prairie provinces; the sudden development in jurisdiction was the most far-reaching act since the creation of Manitoba in 1870, which created the first natural resources question. A Royal Commission would leave Winnipeg for Los Angeles, to receive testimony from the former president of the Winnipeg Electric Co.; questions had arisen concerning donations made to Conservative campaigns, as well as about a onetime provincial treasurer having been an officer of the corporation. Search our archives for more here.
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