What’s happening today
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe house at 514 Wellington Crescent was torn down in 2020 after a long battle with area residents and heritage advocates who wanted it saved.
Committee to hear condo plan: A city committee is set to consider a rezoning application to allow a four-storey condo at the site of the former Gordon House on Wellington Crescent. Martin Cash reports. READ MORE
Biden set to give speech: U.S. President Joe Biden will use a speech in Georgia to support changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation. Senate Democratic leaders have set Martin Luther King Jr. Day as the deadline to pass the legislation or consider revising the filibuster rules. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Angry over garden party: Opposition politicians in the United Kingdom are calling for a police investigation after a news report that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff members held a garden party amid strict pandemic measures in May 2020. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Omicron in Europe: The World Health Organization says there were more than 7 million new cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 across Europe in the first week of January, a number that more than doubled in two weeks. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly cloudy with a high of -4 C, wind chill as low as -24 this morning and wind from the south at 20 km/h until the late afternoon.
In case you missed it
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS“Approximately” 36 COVID-19 cases are at McPhillips Station.
Casinos and COVID-19: Dozens of employees at Winnipeg’s casinos have tested positive for COVID-19 since Christmas, raising questions about why the facilities remain open while cases surge. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
‘It’s very scary’: One-third of the households in a remote First Nation in northern Manitoba are isolating because of the pandemic. Manto Sipi Cree Nation is running low on fuel and can’t open its ice road, Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Parliament’s president dies: David Sassoli, the president of the European Union’s parliament, has died at a hospital in Italy. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 11, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Japan attacked Chinese forces roughly 10 miles from Shanhaikwan, with heavy artillery followed by cavalry and infantry charges, attempting to pierce the Great Wall at a new entry point. A former Winnipeg man was caught by a police posse and charged in the killings of two women and the wounding of two men at Kirkland Lake, Ont. The man had taken refuge at a dairy farm nine miles from the scene of the killings.
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