What you need to know
THE CANADIAN PRESS/John WoodsManitoba Premier Brian Pallister.
Will Tories cut sales tax?: The Progressive Conservative government will introduce its fourth budget this afternoon. The Tories have promised to decrease the provincial sales tax to seven per cent from eight per cent during their term in office. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Trudeau on ‘trust’: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an early morning statement on the SNC-Lavalin affair. He said he takes responsibility for a breakdown in communications between his office and former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould. “I was not aware of that erosion of trust,” he said, adding, “I should have been.” READ MORE
Apology expected: In Iqaluit, Trudeau will apologize later today on behalf of Ottawa for the handling of Inuit people who died while being treated for tuberculosis. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be mainly sunny with a high of -10 C, and wind chill as low as -28 this morning and -16 in the afternoon.
What’s happening today
Sentencing scheduled: Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, will be sentenced for tax and bank fraud in Virginia this afternoon. Manafort, 69, could receive a 20-year sentence.
At city hall: The city’s public works committee will meet this afternoon to review the public works and Winnipeg Transit department budgets. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian PressTeam Manitoba skip Mike McEwen earned a shot at the championship round after defeating P.E.I. 7-6 at the Brier in Brandon on Wednesday.
Staying alive: Team Manitoba skip Mike McEwen will have to beat Team Canada’s Brad Gushue at 2 p.m. and Alberta’s Kevin Koe at 7 p.m. to have any hope of making the playoffs at the Brier. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Carr on commerce: Jim Carr is speaking at a Manitoba Chambers of Commerce breakfast event later this morning. Yesterday, the minister of international trade diversification told the Free Press he has “100 per cent confidence” in his embattled prime minister. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
On this date
On March 7, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that residents of Winnipeg and elsewhere in the province were struggling to dig out from a blizzard that dropped five and a half inches of snow on the city. U.S. warplanes over Berlin downed 178 German aircraft, while U.S. bombers dropped 2,000 tons of bombs on the city. Britain’s first lord of the admiralty warned Parliament that Germany was preparing a new U-boat campaign. READ MORE
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