What you need to know
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFirefighters were no longer trying to save the two-storey building on Roseberry Street Monday evening and were in a defensive mode to prevent it from spreading.
Still at fire scene: Firefighters remain at the scene of a fire that destroyed a warehouse in St. James yesterday afternoon. The cause of the blaze on Roseberry Street between Ellice and Silver avenues is under investigation. READ MORE
Award nominees announced: Juno Awards nominees will be revealed this morning. Superstars Drake, Shania Twain and the late Gord Downie are expected to get nods in the top categories, The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be increasingly cloudy with a high of -14 C, wind at 20 km/h this morning, wind chill -38 this morning and -28 in the afternoon, and a 30 per cent chance of flurries this afternoon.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFormer City of Winnipeg solid waste manager, Daryl Doubleday, now works for Green For Life, which recently took over garbage removal for eastern Winnipeg.
Questions over quitting: Coun. Janice Lukes says she finds it “questionable” a city official quit for a new job with a company he helped win a lucrative municipal contract this fall. Daryl Doubleday, the city’s solid-waste manager, left that job in January to work for Green for Life Environmental. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
‘Middle-class snobs’: The Manitoba Historical Society says it will no longer manage the city’s Ross House Museum in Point Douglas because of a lack of funding, vandalism and safety concerns. “They’re a bunch of middle-class snobs who don’t want to be involved with the reality of Winnipeg,” community activist Sel Burrows says of the society. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSMark Scheifele
Clash with Coyotes: The Winnipeg Jets face the Phoenix Coyotes at Bell MTS Place at 7 p.m. While Jets centre Mark Scheifele will likely return from injury Friday, the team’s injuries are mounting. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Mahoney mourned: John Mahoney, the British-born actor who played a former police officer with two psychiatrist sons on Frasier, has died at age 77, it was announced Monday. The Chicago resident received two Emmy nominations for Frasier, which aired from 1993 to 2004, and won a 1986 Tony Award for The House of Blue Leaves. READ MORE
On this date
On Feb. 6, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Winnipeg’s Deer Lodge would get a new $4.5-million wing; two existing structures would be torn down. The mayor of Winnipeg and the premier of Manitoba worked to form the Manitoba European Flood Relief committee, in response to a drive by the prime minister to raise funds for flood victims in Europe. Winnipeg police officers used a walkie-talkie to trap a bookmaker, who pleaded guilty to keeping a bettinghouse in an automobile on Fort Street in December and January. READ MORE
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