What’s happening today
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFire and Paramedic Chief John Lane speaks to the media at city hall Thursday.
Lane says sorry: After being asked repeatedly by media in the past week for his reaction to an arbitrator’s ruling March 1 that his actions created a disrespectful workplace environment, Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Service Chief John Lane apologized on Thursday. “Really now, it’s a matter of moving forward,” he said. The paramedics union said it accepts the apology. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Perfect harmony: Two Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra violinists, Karl Stobbe and Gwen Hoebig, have sat beside each other onstage for more than two decades, and they are also friends outside of the theatre. They’re featured in a WSO concert, Bruckner & Bach, tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. Alan Small interviewed the pair for their unique on-stage, off-stage bond. READ MORE
Big RV show: For people who are tired of winter and ready to think of summer road trips, the Manitoba RV Show is on tonight, Saturday and Sunday, filling the entire third floor at the Winnipeg Convention Centre with recreational vehicles, travel trailers and motorhomes. Other activities include cooking lessons and learning how to throw an axe. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: There will be a mix of sun and cloud today, with a high of -4 C, which will feel like -25 with windchill. The low tonight is -10.
In case you missed it
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS16-year-old Naomi (right) is welcomed to Winnipeg by her sister Alice Thursday night.
Family reunited: It was a heartwarming reunion on Thursday when a Congolese teenager was reunited with her family. The girl went missing as a toddler 14 years ago when their village was attacked and the family’s house was set on fire, and the family had presumed the toddler was dead. Carol Sanders was there for the family’s tearful meeting. READ MORE
Male MLAs maligned: MLA Nahanni Fontaine said Thursday there are male MLAs in the legislature who sexually harass female MLAs, but she refused to name names. “I invite them to identify themselves and apologize,” she said in the legislature. No one did. Nick Martin reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
(Bank of Canada / Flickr)
We’re in the money: A Winnipeg landmark, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, is pictured on the back of the new Canadian $10 banknote, the first-ever museum to be pictured on a Canadian banknote. The front of the bill, which was unveiled Thursday, features a picture of Viola Desmond, a Halifax businesswoman who famously refused to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S., and was forcibly removed and jailed overnight. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
Laine streak continues: Winnipeg Jets beat New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Thursday evening and, to answer the question that’s front of the mind with Winnipeg sports fans: yes, he did score again. Patrik Laine, 19, now has 75 goals in his young career, which ties him with Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby on the list of all-time goals scored by a teenager. Wayne Gretzky had 76. READ MORE
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Kim Jong Un: The North Korean leader has invited U.S. President Donald Trump to meet in person to speak about denuclearization. READ MORE
On this date
On March 9, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that U.S. 1st Army tanks and troops swept across the Ludendorf bridge and pushed five miles into German territory. The chief of staff of the German army admitted to troops in a radio address that the strain on their forces was becoming intolerable. Canadians rallied to donate to the Red Cross. Canadian reinforcements surged in the European theatre of war. READ MORE
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