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Winkler an Internet innovator: Every home and business in Winkler could soon be connected with individual fibreoptic cables that would give them the fastest Internet service in the country. And it wouldn’t cost them a cent. Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: It will be a blustery and bitterly cold day in Winnipeg today, and the culprit is the wind. The high temperature will be -12 C, which is seasonably normal and would be tolerable if it weren’t for wind blowing from the northwest at 50 km/h, gusting to 70, making it feel like -29.
In case you missed it
SuppliedKeeyask powerhouse in February, shot of powerhouse looking upstream.
Keeyask costs soar: It was announced on Tuesday the cost of Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask generating station, under construction in northern Manitoba, continues to balloon, growing by $2.2 billion in the past three years. Unsurprisingly, Premier Brian Pallister blames the previous NDP government: “It’s a sad day for Manitobans, as the owners of Manitoba Hydro.” Larry Kusch and Nick Martin report. READ MORE
Teaching refugees job skills: A new Red River College program that began last week aims to teach English to new refugees and provide work experience in construction jobs such as drywalling, masonry and flat-top roofing. And they stand a good chance of getting jobs, because potential employers helped create the program. Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Up next
Ben Caplan And The Casual Smokers: The band plays at 8 p.m. today at the West End Cultural Centre. Who is Ben Caplan? He introduces himself eloquently on his website: “A charismatic charmer and a smasher of pianos. A madman and an earnest poet. A strummer of delicate chords and a lover of bent and broken melodies. An enormous voice, roaring louder than raucous crowds.”
Marking Women’s Day: Visitors to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights today on International Women’s Day can experience the evolution of women’s rights in Canada on a special themed tour. The 75-minute program includes Nellie McClung’s “Persons Case” of 1927, a photo exhibit about Muslim women in Quebec who wear the veil, and an art installation about missing and murdered indigenous women.
Around the water cooler
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThis home at 141 Rose Lake Court is a former show home that sold for $1.4M. Seven homes sold for at least $1M in February. Home buyers will have to pay thousands more once city growth fees take effect in May.
Winnipeg’s million-dollar homes: Seven million-dollar-plus homes sold in Winnipeg last month through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), compared to none in February 2016 and just one in February 2015. Industry officials believe buyers of new luxury homes are getting the jump on the city’s proposed impact fee by buying well before the fee takes effect on May 1. Murray McNeill reports. READ MORE
Manitoba rink loses one: The rink representing Manitoba at the Brier championship was uncharacteristically sloppy on Tuesday, losing a game to bring the team’s record to 5-1. Skip Mike McEwen said: “We’re too good of a team to continue at this pace. We’re gonna find it, eventually.” Jason Bell is covering the Brier in St. John’s, Nfld. READ MORE
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#InternationalWomensDay: Trending in Winnipeg, across Canada and elsewhere as people celebrate women, champion equal rights, and take a hard look at history.
On this date
On March 8, 1976: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Manitoba’s labour minister was considering back-to-work legislation to end the strike by Winnipeg Transit employees. According to U.S. intelligence sources, the Soviet Union was sending supplies of new weapons to Mozambique, which had closed its border with white-governed Rhodesia and proclaimed a “state of war.” In Spain, Basque workers staged a general strike. READ MORE
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