Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of light snow. Windfrom the west at 30 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High -9 C, wind chill -21 this morning and -16 this afternoon.
Pedestrians and cars navigate snowy conditions on Broadway on Wednesday as a winter storm moves into the region. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Sections of the Trans-Canada Highway and several other highways across southern Manitoba have been closed due to reduced visibility in blowing snow as a winter storm slams the region. Visit Manitoba 511 for the latest highway conditions.
Inclement weather and road conditions are resulting in school bus service being cancelled and/or schools being closed in some divisions. See this map, then click on the relevant school division to see announcements of school closures in that area.
What’s happening today
In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Joe Biden is going into Thursday’s State of the Union address with an expanded plan to raise corporate taxes and use the proceeds to trim budget deficits and cut taxes for the middle class. The Associated Press reports.
The U.S Capitol building in Washington (Patrick Semansky / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
The Kinew government opened the spring sitting of the Manitoba legislature Wednesday with a bill to repeal a ban on project labour agreements championed by the Progressive Conservatives.
Labour Minister Malaya Marcelino said Bill 7 will give public-sector entities the option to require contractors bidding on infrastructure projects to employ a unionized workforce.
It will also allow them to use project labour agreements, which could require contractors to pay prevailing wages under a collective agreement or for non-unionized workers to become union members or pay dues as a condition of obtaining work. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew greets union members at a news conference announcing a bid to repeal a ban on project labour agreements. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
When she went back to school after her husband’s death, Hamdi Warsame felt a bit embarrassed to be an adult student. Now she’s being honoured by the province for her work in the classroom.
The 47-year-old, who immigrated to Canada in 1993 before settling in Winnipeg with her children several years ago, is in her third year of studies at Literacyworks, an adult education organization. Read the full story here.
On this date
On March 7, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, the federal finance minister announced an interim bilateral Canada-U.S. agreement to lower tariffs on a wide range of goods. In Brandon, bondholders of Brandon Packers voted to sell the physical assets of the bankrupt meat packing plant to Manitoba Pool Elevators for for $180,000 Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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