- The Manitoba government has hired former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy to study the feasibility of relocating the rail yards that separate Winnipeg's city centre from the North End. The matter has been mooted for years, but perhaps the closure of the Arlington Bridge has added a sense of urgency to the matter. Axworthy was involved in the relocation of CN yards from the Forks in the 1980s while serving as transport minister; notably, though, that was when CN was still owned by the federal government.
- The Kinew government is also scrapping the previous government's plans to use a P3 model to build schools. Part of the concern is over the terms seen in previous P3 agreements in other provinces; because the private partners retained a stake in the schools, they put undue restrictions on the use of classrooms (including prohibiting teachers from putting art on classroom walls) - not to mention the fact that many such arrangements ended up costing considerably more than the traditional way of building schools once maintenance is factored in.
- Fort Whyte MLA Obby Khan and Churchill hotel owner Wally Daudrich will be competing for the Manitoba PC leadership - assuming that Daudrich passes the party's vetting (Khan has already been approved).
- The Green Party's candidate in Steinbach, who withdrew from the race shortly before last year's election, was found to have forged two signatures on her nomination papers.
- An organization calling itself "West Coast Proud" has spent tens of thousands of dollars on social media ads promoting the BC Conservatives and attacking the NDP. Turns out that the people behind it are Albertans trying to influence the outcome of another province's election.
- The BC Conservatives have finally released their platform on Tuesday, only days before the election (and after a record number of people had already voted in advance). Turns out that they plan to run a deficit of nearly $11 billion in their first year, higher than the NDP or the Greens. Their candidates also have a poor record for turning up at all candidates debates, and one of them has apparently been calling herself a medical doctor based on her doctorate in "integrative medicine" from an institution called "Quantum University" in Hawaii. I suspect the College of Physicians and Surgeons would like a word with her about that.
- Christopher Yoo, a 17-year-old chess grandmaster competing in the US Championship, has been expelled from the tournament following an incident in which, after being defeated by Fabiano Caruana, he crumpled up his scoresheet and stormed out of the tournament hall, allegedly assaulting a videographer in the process.
- A woman tore down what she believed to be Israeli flags at a restaurant in Montclair, New Jersey, while shouting "Free Palestine! This is genocide!" Thing is, the flags were actually Greek flags, not Israeli ones.
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