This morning
Janek Lowe / Winnipeg Free Press FilesHarvey Smith in 2010
R.I.P. Harvey Smith: The longtime city councillor, who represented the Sargent Park ward from 1980 to 1986 and the Daniel McIntyre ward from 1998 until 2014, has died at the age of 80. Smith was known for returning calls from constituents, but could rub some of his fellow councillors the wrong way, such as in 2013 when he posted a set of fake street signs in his ward’s worst back lanes with the name of then mayor Sam Katz and members of the executive policy committee to draw attention to the poor condition of the laneways. READ MORE
In case you missed it
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSAbout 20 people joined the rally in front of the Rady Jewish Community Centre Sunday.
Standing against anti-Semitism: About 20 people showed up for a rally on Sunday afternoon organized in response to a bomb threat made Thursday to the Rady Jewish Community Centre, as well as to protest recent acts against other Jewish community clubs in North America. READ MORE
Struggling to settle refugees: Despite headline-grabbing talk from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Canada’s openness to refugees, the federal government’s support for actual programs that help refugees is being cut, such as the Living English program in Winnipeg. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESSManitoba skip Mike McEwen
Not empty-handed: Less than 24 hours after the most crippling loss of their careers, Mike McEwen and his teammates from Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge Curling Club rallied to defeat Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario 7-5 in an extra end Sunday afternoon at the Canadian men’s curling championship, taking the bronze medal. McEwen says the earlier loss still smarts, but the team is looking ahead. “There’s been some bad Manitoba (losses) but that one was bad… even worse. Crazy stuff happens in life and you just have to move on. As a team, we’ve recovered from some pretty awful things, and (Sunday) was the first step of our recovery. I think we’ll be OK.” READ MORE
Trending now
#daylightsavings: As many Canadians struggle to convince their bodies that it is in fact the hour they see on the clock, and not an hour earlier, some are tweeting about the joys of sleep deprivation this morning. Not in Saskatchewan, though.
On this date
On March 13, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported that France and Belgium announced they would evacuate the Ruhr region once Germany began payment as part of reparations agreed to following the end of the First World War. Canadian credit would not be affected by the recent dispute over the exchange rate on Britain’s war debt. Attempts by U.S. railways working east from Buffalo to force Canadian railways and steamship lines to raise rates on grain at the outset of the 1922 season were examined at a royal commission READ MORE
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