Good morning!
Your forecast: See that great ball of light up in the sky? Get used to it, because there will be plenty of sunshine in the next few days. Today will be sunny, with a high of -6 C. Tonight, there’s a 30 per cent change of snow flurries. Friday will be a mix of sun and cloud, with a high of -4. Saturday will be sunny with a high of 1. Sunday (get out a lighter jacket) will be sunny with a high of 6.
In case you missed it
Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman talks to the media after the City budget was presented during an EPC Wednesday afternoon by councillor Marty Morantz.
Open your wallets: Mayor Brian Bowman and his executive policy committee tabled on Wednesday the preliminary capital and operating budget for 2016 proposes nearly 100 new fees, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The new fees are expected to bring in an additional $8 million to the city coffers. READ MORE
Drunk driver gets 32 months in jail: Martin Jolicoeur, a drunk driver who struck and killed 22-year-old Robert Joubert while going as fast as 170 km/h on the Trans-Canada Highway, has been sentenced to 32 months in prison on Wednesday. Jolicoeur admitted to causing the devastating 2012 crash near Ste. Anne that caused Joubert to be ejected from his vehicle despite the fact he was wearing a seatbelt. READ MORE
Up next
CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTORobert J. Sawyer is the star attraction at this year’s Thin Air Winnipeg writers festival.
Psychopath alert: A new science fiction novel, Quantum Night, by author Robert J. Sawyer will be launched today at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers. The book is set in Winnipeg, where protagonist Jim Marchuk has perfected a technique for detecting psychopaths.
$11 an hour: The Fraser Institute will release today a new study about the effects of minimum wage increases in Canada. There has recently been a chorus of voices asking for increases in the minimum wage, which currently stands at $11 an hour in Manitoba.
Around the water cooler
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSouthdale Liberal candidate Jamie Hall (right) with his girlfriend, Dez Joyal, at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Offensive tweets: Jamie Hall, a Liberal candidate called out for using offensive language against women on social media, says he intends to stay in the race. Hall, running for the Liberals in Southdale, refers to women as whores and skanks in Tweets dating back to 2012. READ MORE
Beer theft behind murder: Henry (Buddy) Kipling, 43, of Peguis First Nation was killed so his attackers could steal his beer. Kipling was attacked by two different people in front of the Northern Hotel at 826 Main Street on Saturday after he had bought a case of beer at the vendor. Police believe he did not know his attackers. READ MORE
Trending now
#WCH2016: The World Cup of Hockey is trending, and Winnipeg fans can be proud that four Jets have been selected for the preliminary teams. Goaltenders Ondrej Pavelec and Connor Hellebuyck were named to Team Czech Republic and Team North America, respectively, while Blake Wheeler and Dustin Byfuglien will play for the United States.
On this date
On Mar. 3, 1995: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a construction worker on his way in to work stopped to dash into a burning house so he could rescue one of the occupants, a 68-year-old man; the construction worker went back in but was unable to save the man’s wife, who died. Churchil MP Elijah Harper returned to Parliament Hill after a bout with an undisclosed illness. An inquest was called in the deaths of 12 infants who had had cardiac surgery at the Health Sciences Centre.
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