Your forecast
Cloudy with snow this morning, a high of -9 C and low of -24.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Predators in Nashville, starting at 7 p.m. Jeff Hamilton reports on how Jets associate coach Scott Arniel’s approach to addressing the team’s penalty kill is paying off.
Today’s must-read
A nationwide shortage of teachers is forcing Manitoba’s rural school divisions to hire figure skating coaches, Girl Guides leaders and other adults without certification to fill in for absent classroom educators. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
(Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
A fresco depicting Hercules and originally from Herculaneum, a city destroyed along with Pompeii by the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was back in Italy Monday, along with 59 other ancient pieces illegally trafficked to the United States. Last summer, U.S. authorities announced that the fresco and dozens of other trafficked objects, which ended up in private collections in the United States, would go back to Italy. The Associated Press reports.
Carabinieri police officers put on display 60 archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. (Andrew Medichini / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Jan. 24, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported prime minister R.B. Bennett said Canada would not depart from its “sound money” position, and ruled out inflationary moves. The increasing threat of war was prominent in the capitals of Russia and Japan, as the Russian premier said his country stood for peace but was prepared to fight if necessary, and attacked the League of Nations for its stance on the Manchurian question. Meanwhile, a leading Japanese official condemned the policies of the chief military group of Japan. Search our archives for more here.
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