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What’s happening today
Today is International Women’s Day, and hundreds of thousands of people are set to take part in demonstrations, rallies, and colorful events around the globe. In Japan, women’s rights activists renewed their demand Wednesday for the government to allow married couples the option to keep both of their surnames.
According to The Canadian Press, a new survey shows Canadian men are almost twice as likely as women to think gender inequality is being “blown way out of proportion,” but as Gabrielle Piché reports, Canadian women are earning less than male counterparts — and access to child care could be a factor. (Today’s editorial highlights the need for sustainable child-care funding from the province, as demand for daycare is expected to grow under the new $10-a-day program.)
Here in Winnipeg, Eva Wasney has a story on how for the first time in its 65-year history, women are playing a lead role in every executive position at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s leadership team, from left: artistic director Kelly Thornton, executive director Camilla Holland and board chair Laurie Speers. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free press files)
Today’s must-read
The Progressive Conservative government is slashing personal income taxes by $311 million and ramping up spending across provincial departments in its final budget ahead of the looming election. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020. Lisbeth Imer, a runologist with the National Museum in Copenhagen, said the inscription represented the first solid evidence of Odin being worshipped as early as the 5th century — at least 150 years earlier than the previous oldest known reference. The Associated Press reports.
Experts Krister Vasshus, left, and Lisbeth Imer hold golden bracteates unearthed in Vindelev, Denmark in late 2020. (John Fhær Engedal Nissen / The National Museum of Denmark / The Associated Press)
On this date
On March 8, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that every Manitoba old age and blind pensioner would receive a pension of $35 a month, retroactive to March 1, an increase of $5 from the existing pension. In Berlin, the leader of the German Communists convened an emergency meeting of the German People’s Congress to consider the grave danger of a new war with western powers. In Ottawa, prime minister Louis St. Laurent intimated the federal government might take steps to counteract the Communist party in Canada. Search our archives for more here.
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