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Your forecast: If Winnipeg is looking for a theme song for the rest of the week, we propose Here Comes the Sun, the comforting gem off the The Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Road. Today will feature a mix of sun and cloud with a high of -10 C, and a 40 per cent chance of flurries overnight. And tomorrow? Here comes the sun. Thursday will be sunny, with a high of -10. Friday will be sunny, with a high of -6 And Saturday with sunny with a high of plus 1.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA portrait has been hung with Manitoba’s premiers in the hallway next to the premier’s office Tuesday, March 1, 2016.
Riel added to honour wall: Louis Riel’s portrait was placed alongside those of Manitoba’s premiers in the halls of the Legislative Building in a ceremony Tuesday. Pictures of all Manitoba premiers align the wall of a hallway next to the premier’s office at the Legislative Building. The portrait of Riel now precedes that of Alfred Boyd, who served from Sept. 16, 1870 to Dec. 14, 1871. READ MORE
Exploited young girls: Darrell Ackman, 46, was found guilty Tuesday on all 14 charges he faced including multiple counts of living off the avails of prostitution, making child pornography and sexual assault. His victims, were aged 14-22, were plied with drugs and alcohol and sold for sex. READ MORE
Hydro on hot seat: Government officials, reacting to a media report, say the public deserves to know why Manitoba Hydro awarded a single-sourced contract worth up to $85 million to the engineering consulting firm Tetra Tech. The contract, awarded in 2014 to the California-based firm, did not go to the competitive bidding process. READ MORE
Up next
Out of the ashes: Remember the McDonald’s on Henderson Highway that was destroyed by fire in April, 2015? It will open again after a VIP reception this evening and, according to a press release, nearly 80 per cent of the pre-fire staff will return to their former positions.
City budget: The preliminary 2016 Operating and Capital budgets will be released at 1:30 p.m. today, a chance for citizens to see how the city wants to spend your tax money. Free Press journalist Aldo Santin will report.
Around the water cooler
Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free PressWinnipeg Free Press reporter Paul Wiecek
Wiecek nominated: Winnipeg Free Press sportswriter Paul Wiecek has been nominated for a prestigious Sovereign Award for 2015 in the media category for his story Turbulence at the track published on April 24, 2015. READ MORE
Skinny cable skinny on value: The slimmed-down, bargain-brand version of cable television for the $25 maximum price, as determined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, has arrived but it does not include the cost of set-top digital boxes or other associated cable-TV equipment. It advertises 36 channels, but in fact offers fewer than two dozen individual services. READ MORE
Trending now
Gerald Herbert / The Associated PressDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to supporters as she arrives to address supporters at her Super Tuesday election night rally in Miami, Tuesday.
#SuperTuesday: In the U.S. presidential race, Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton cemented their leads over their rivals, coming out ahead in the multiple primaries held Mar. 1, known as Super Tuesday. READ MORE
On this date
On Mar. 2, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Winnipeg city council voted to accept a provincial government offer of $555,000 for eight city properties to be used for the the proposed Manitoba arts centre provided the province agreed to sell other land to the city for $23,944. The Manitoba government was urged to enlarge and and expand guidance facilities in provincial schools to help cut the number of school dropouts and unemployed youth. A Winnipeg alderman’s proposal to combine certain 1967 Pan American Games projects with those of the Red River Exhibition met with little support.
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