Good morning!
Your forecast: The good news is there’s a whole lot of sunshine in the long-range forecast. The bad news is you’ll likely be enjoying the view through your living room window. Environment Canada is calling for a string of sunny but bitterly cold days late this week and into the next. Today, however, will be mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries, a high of just -20 C and stinging wind chill of -36. For Wednesday, expect another cloudy day and a high of -18 C. Thursday through next Monday should feature bright blue skies and daytime temperature ranging from -16 C Thursday to -24 C on Friday, while the nights will be even chillier.
In case you missed it
File photoFormer Manitoba lieutenant-governor John Harvard in his home in Winnipeg in June 2013. Harvard died on Saturday at the age of 77.
Funeral: The funeral and a celebration of life for former lieutenant-governor and longtime Liberal MP John Harvard will be held Monday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. at the Victoria Inn near the airport in Winnipeg. Harvard died Saturday from cancer at age 77. He was the Liberal MP for Charleswood-St.James-Assiniboia from 1988 until 2004 and then Manitoba’s lieutenant-governor from 2004 to 2009. READ MORE
Taking over care of children: A new seven-person board of First Nations people will regain control of the Southern Authority, likely Tuesday, and look after child welfare in southern Manitoba. The Southern Authority oversees 10 frontline agencies and about 4,500 kids in care. READ MORE
Morphine mom: A 33-year-old woman is pleading not guilty after her 10-month-old baby girl died under mysterious circumstances in July 2012 and a Philadelphia lab later found the baby had a toxic level of morphine in her system. The girl’s mother is on trial in a case that’s believed to be the first of its kind in Manitoba. READ MORE
Up next
TREVOR HAGAN/WINNIPEG FREE PRESSRoger Prince, 72, waits to compete in the 33rd beard growing contest at Festival du Voyageur Friday. Prince has won first place in the competition several times over the years.
Hé-ho!: When it gets this cold, you know it’s almost time for the entertainment, food and fun that is the 47th edition of the Festival du Voyageur. Details of this year’s festival fun will be announced at a press conference at 10:30 a.m. today.
Hospital helipad: A press conference today will offer details about the upcoming opening of a helipad atop the roof of the Diagnostic Centre of Excellence at HSC Winnipeg. The helipad is expected to improve patient care by letting STARS air ambulance officials transfer patients directly to the hospital without first transferring them to ground ambulances, which is currently the case.
Shark attack: The Winnipeg Jets will try to fend off the circling San Jose Sharks tonight at the MTS Centre. Game time is 7 p.m. Winnipeg is coming off a 4-2 loss Sunday afternoon to the Buffalo Sabres, which dropped the NHL club to 19-20-3 on the season. The Sharks are 19-18-2. The Jets then host the Nashville Predators on Thursday and make the short haul to Minneapolis to face the Minnesota Wild on Friday night.
Around the water cooler
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThree baby girls born in Canada will be allowed to stay in this country with their Nigerian mother, the Immigration and Refugee Board ruled Friday.
Saving girls from mutilation: After nearly losing her first daughter to female genital mutilation, a Nigerian woman pregnant with triplet girls fled to Canada before it could be done to them. Last Friday, at an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, the woman was granted protection in Canada. READ MORE
Thin White Duke remembered: Pouring in around the world are tributes, memories and brushes with greatness involving legendary performer David Bowie, 69, who died Sunday of cancer after an 18-month battle. A memorial grows outside his SoHo apartment in New York, with flowers surrounding words of grief and flickering candles. Bowie lost his 18-month battle with cancer Sunday. READ MORE
Iconic Bay shrinking: The downtown Hudson’s Bay store, at the corner of Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard, has closed off the fourth floor, leaving just the main and second floors open to downtown shoppers. READ MORE
Trending now
Emrah Gurel / The Associated PressVisitors sit in front of Blue Mosque at the historic Sultanahmet district after an explosion in Istanbul, Tuesday.
#Istanbul: An explosion today in an historic Istanbul tourist hub has killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others. Turkish officials are looking at the possibility the blast in the city’s Sultanahmet Square was the work of a suicide bomber. READ MORE
Jerry Hall: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 84, is engaged to Jerry Hall, 59, a former supermodel and the ex-wife of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. They have apparently been dating for four months after being introduced by relatives in Australia.
On this date
On Jan. 12, 1983: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that four students at Margaret Underhill elementary school in Transcona were injured when a detonator in one of the student’s pockets exploded. The detonator was apparently a blasting cap that one of the students had picked up on the way to school that morning. The boy who had picked up the device had hooked up a battery, a couple of wires and a nail to the blasting cap and detonated it.
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