With Filipinos focused on the 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF) who were killed on January 25, 2015, it is easy to forget that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) also suffered casualties in an incident that, based on most accounts, was instigated by the Philippine National Police (PNP) when it launched an operation to arrest the terrorist Julkifli Bin Hir alias Marwan without coordinating with the MILF before entering the small town of Mamasapano in Maguindanao. According to MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal, 18 of their men were killed and 14 were wounded, some of them as they were actually trying to rescue SAF men from the volley of gunfire from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), the breakaway group that was the one actually coddling Marwan.
Kung magkakaroon ng second balloting ng mga delegado sa konbensiyon ng Manitoba NDP sa ika-8 ng Marso, alin man kay Steve Ashton at Theresa Oswald ang papalit sa upuan ni Greg Selinger. Gayunman, imposibleng mapaghilom ang malalim na sugat sa pagkakaisa ng kanilang partido.