Don’t be guilted into hasty decisions on future

Today’s horoscope

MOON ALERT: Caution. Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions from 5 a.m. until 10:15 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Leo into Virgo.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

This is a fantastic day to shmooz and romance is also favoured. In fact, this is most romantic day of the week. Intimate relationships will be affectionate and exciting. Enjoy socializing, sporting events and fun activities with kids. The arts are blessed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

The Green Fog pays homage to the City by the Bay via Hitchcock's Vertigo

The Green Fog is certainly an original film. But it is best approached with a thorough familiarity with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1958 thriller Vertigo.

In fact, it’s an absolute prerequisite.

Commissioned by San Francisco International Film Festival director Noah Cowan, it is a “celebration of San Francisco in cinema” that, in its own strange way, functions as a kind of remake of Vertigo, told obliquely with footage from an array of San Francisco-set movies and TV shows, including Bullitt, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, McMillan and Wife, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and The Streets of San Francisco.

“We were told to feature footage from any film or TV show ever shot in the Bay Area,” says director Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, The Saddest Music in the World), who took the assignment in collaboration with fraternal partners Evan and Galen Johnson.

Report calls for schools to add more ‘sensory rooms’

Manitoba schools are being urged to set up more “sensory rooms” and use the spaces — which can feature mood lighting, flexible seating and fidget toys — to address growing concerns about student outbursts and related injuries.

A new report from the Manitoba Federation of Labour is renewing calls to better protect educational assistants, teachers and other public-sector employees.

One of its 10 recommendations, published on Monday, focuses on tackling overcrowding in community facilities and establishing “safe spaces in schools to respond to violence.”

“It’s become the norm: kids having meltdowns that require you have to evacuate the classroom,” said Jane Allison, an educational assistant in Winnipeg.

The women’s 100 metres in Tokyo ended with Elaine Thompson-Herah’s celebration. It might have cost her a world record

Thompson-Herah beats compatriot Fraser-Pryce and leads a Jamaican sweep of the podium.

Residents reeling after man shot, killed by police

Van Ho was inside his sixth-floor Main Street apartment when he heard a ruckus in the hall around noon Wednesday afternoon.

Ho looked out his window to see police and emergency vehicles surrounding the 10-storey North Point Douglas Manor. When he peeked into the hallway, he saw the body of his next-door neighbour being carried away.

“I thought somebody was fighting, then I open my door and that’s what I see,” Ho saidThursday afternoon.

The Vietnamese immigrant moved to the building four years ago. He said his neighbour, who has not been identified, moved into the Manitoba Housing complex about two months ago, but often caused excessive noise at night and kept him awake.

Khan’s abrupt departure presents desperate Tories with a valuable opportunity

If the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives are serious about getting out of the political wilderness, they should start by electing a progressive conservative leader.

Not a louder conservative and not a more combative conservative — a genuinely progressive conservative.

Obby Khan’s abrupt departure as party leader last week has given the PCs something they desperately need: an opportunity to reset.

The party has become increasingly divided between its far-right conservatives and those who still believe the “progressive” in the party’s name actually means something.