Today’s horoscope

Once-derelict Main Street flophouse's transition to stable, supportive housing facility proving successful in helping homeless people turn their lives around

The days seep and ooze into one another. As the seasons change, the weather changes too: bitterly cold in winter, sticky hot in summer, pleasantly mild come fall. But otherwise, much about life on the Main Street strip remains the same, as it has for a very long time.

Students report inappropriate behaviour by The King’s School teacher

Current and former students at The King’s School say a male teacher, who has been put on leave amid an investigation, overstepped boundaries by massaging them, disclosing intimate secrets to teenagers, and asking deeply personal questions in return — including the status of their relationships with their fathers.

One Grade 12 student at the independent Winnipeg school, which is run in partnership with Gateway Church and partially funded by the provincial government, said she immediately noticed the educator’s inappropriate behaviour when she enrolled.

“It just didn’t sit right with me,” she told the Free Press.

The student described the educator’s conduct as “intimate.” He offered what he called “fatherly hugs” and asked teenage girls, herself included, about what their relationship with their fathers was like, she said.

Today’s horoscope

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions after 5 p.m. The new moon is in Scorpio

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

The new moon urges you to inject more excitement into your life. What can you do to make your world more interesting? This particular new moon is also the best time all year to focus on red-tape details and debt. Pull your act together.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

ACTRA Manitoba, MCMA hand out annual awards

ACTRA Manitoba honours its own

It’s been an autumn to remember for local actor Summer H. Howell.

The 22-year-old from St. Andrews plays the title character in the Amazon Prime series Carrie, an adaptation of the telekinetic Stephen King thriller released in October. And over the weekend, Howell was one of three recipients of the 2026 ACTRA Manitoba award for outstanding performance in a feature film, earning industry recognition for her lead role in the malevolent thriller Spirit in the Blood.

Howell — who won the same honour in 2022 for Hunter Hunter — was in good company in the winner’s circle, sharing the award with Lauren Cochrane (Deaner ’89) and Reena Jolly, a frequent star of the local stage who co-starred in the Bob Odenkirk-led action flick Normal.

North End plant a cautionary tale

Members of the Winnipeg City Council — especially returning members — are probably breathing a sigh of relief for something that happened mere days into their new mandate.

And if there is any fairness in the world of fees and levies, there will be the same relief for taxpayers as well.

On Oct. 30, the federal government announced it would be putting in $500 million to help cover the soaring costs of the North End sewage treatment plant. On the same day, newly re-elected Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham announced that sewer rates for 2027 would be frozen, something that was promised during the election campaign.

The federal spending, along with $500 million in matching funds from the province that was announced earlier this year, is welcome news: both the federal and provincial clearly have a role to play in funding important infrastructure projects that Winnipeg can’t handle on its own.

Heavy snow across the border forces province to revise flood forecast along Red

Recent heavy snows in the northern United States have caused the provincial government to upgrade the expected severity of this spring's flood along the Red River.

On Monday, the Hydrologic Forecast Centre issued a bulletin saying it now forecasts a flood "of a magnitude higher than in 2009," with normal or average weather conditions.

The flood of 2009 was the fourth highest along the Red since 1826 and largest since 1997's Flood of the Century. In 2009, 1,000 square kilometres of land flooded in the Red River Valley between Winnipeg and Emerson. Highway 75 was closed at Morris for 37 days (April 7 to May 13).

In its Feb. 28 flood forecast, the province predicted a flood along the Red comparable to 2011 — which was best remembered for flooding along the Assiniboine River. Next to the 1997 and 2009 floods, however, 2011 was the third largest Red River flood in a half-century.