What’s happening today
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Left to Right, SCO Grand Chief Jerry Daniels, AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas, MKO Grand Chief Sheila North, and Regional AFN Chief Kevin Hart face the media outside the Winnipeg Courthouse Thursday after Raymond Cormier was found not guilty in the death of Tina Fontaine.
Memorial march: A march in honour of Tina Fontaine, the 15-year-old whose 2014 slaying made national headlines, will start at the law courts at 10:30 a.m. Raymond Cormier was acquitted by a jury of second-degree murder in her slaying yesterday. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Bus crash: Police are investigating a crash involving a Winnipeg Transit bus and a car in St. Boniface early today. Three people were injured in the collision on westbound Goulet Street. READ MORE
Sentencing scheduled: A judge is expected to decide today whether a young man who killed four people and wounded seven in a mass shooting in La Loche, Sask., should be sentenced as an adult. He pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will have a mix of sun and cloud, clearing near noon, a high of -8 C, wind chill -26 this morning and wind at 20 km/h near noon.
In case you missed it
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Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond reacts at the end of her performance in the women’s figure skating free program at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Friday, February 23, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.
Record medal haul: Kaetlyn Osmond won bronze in women’s figure skating late last night, Canada’s 27th medal of the Olympics in Pyeongchang. That’s one more than Canada’s previous record at a Winter Games, set in Vancouver in 2010. Canada hopes to guarantee at least a silver medal with a semifinal win over Germany in men’s hockey being played right now. In curling, the Kevin Koe rink lost the bronze-medal game to Switzerland earlier today. Canada’s women’s team was also left off the podium. READ MORE
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Tina Fontaine was found dead Aug. 17, 2014.
Justice up to us: The ugly truth is Tina Fontaine became this city’s loved child only after she was dead, Melissa Martin writes in her latest column. Until we can fix a society where vulnerable women and girls are seen as disposable, more lives will be taken, she writes. READ MORE
On the road again: The Jets will play their first road game in nearly a month when they face the St. Louis Blues at 7 p.m. tonight. Meanwhile, Jets captain Blake Wheeler spoke with reporters Thursday about his tweet calling for better gun control in the U.S. “As an American, I have three kids now. You start to get scared about thinking of them going to school in the United States. It shouldn’t be that way,” he said. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
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#CANvsGER: Canada faces Germany in men’s Olympic hockey this morning.
On this date
On Feb. 23, 1974: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Winnipeg faced a strike by members of the city’s eight police departments, who had been working without a contract since Dec. 31; no date had been set. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper, held by kidnappers, was released when the newspaper paid the $700,000 ransom; his captors had told him they were going to “straighten out the damn liberal press and straighten out the government.” A Georgia couple was charged in the kidnapping. READ MORE
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