Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries, with a high of -4 C and a low of -9.
What’s happening today
The women of the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra are celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 with an evening of music written, arranged or performed by women artists, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the West End Cultural Centre. The evening’s program includes songs written or made famous by Joni Mitchell, Patty Darling, Maria Schneider, Ellen Rowe, Jule Styne, Barbra Streisand, Billie Holiday and Mary Lou Williams. It will also feature songs that were written or arranged by women with Manitoba roots, such as pianist/composer Michelle Grégoire, drummer/composer Tetyana Haraschuk, trombonist/arranger Karin Carlson and music educator/musician Alexis Silver. For ticket info click here.
Michelle Gregoire
Today’s must-read
Firefighters and paramedics are grappling with a flood of calls concerning some of the city’s most vulnerable citizens. The numbers are high, and people who work with the homeless community say it shows more help is needed. Kevin Rollason has the story.
A blanket lies among broken glass and drug-use supplies beneath a bridge in the Point Douglas neighbourhood. (Tyler Searle / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On March 9, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that hopes for a fancy $15-million expansion of the Winnipeg Arena went down the drain along with the prospect of an NHL franchise for the Winnipeg Jets hockey club; the NHL board of governors had opposed a merger with four WHA clubs, including the Jets, and city council was already locked in to a $3.5-million “bare bones” expansion of the arena. Seal hunt protesters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence were arrested after seal pups were painted with dye. In Iran, premier Mehdi Bazargan resigned from the provisional government formed after the deposition of the shah, but Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini refused to accept his resignation. Search our archives for more here. A note to our readers: yesterday’s On This Date gave the incorrect date; it was actually drawn from the March 8, 1949 issue.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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