Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of snow. An extreme cold warning is in effect, with a high of -19 C and a low of -29, wind chill -37 this morning and -24 this afternoon.
Environment Canada issued the warning late last week, projecting an Arctic air mass to produce temperatures below -30 C and windchill values below -40 throughout the week. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
As Tyler Searle reports, when the temperature plummets, people who help the homeless in this city get ready to mobilize. “We are in a housing crisis, there is no doubt about it,” Glynis Quinn, executive director of 1JustCity said Tuesday. Read the full story here.
What’s happening today
The family of Tyre Nichols plans to lay him to rest today, three weeks after he was beaten to death by Memphis police after a traffic stop. Nichols’ funeral will be held at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, beginning at 10:30 a.m. CST. The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, will deliver the eulogy. The Associated Press reports.
In Winnipeg, new city-wide snow-building competition kicks off today and runs until March 31. Cool Digs, presented by Storefront Manitoba and Winnipeg Trails, is designed to inspire people to celebrate being outside, according to contest co-curator Anders Swanson. AV Kitching has the story.
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg couple say they ran out of candy to hand out on Halloween night when it is alleged they topped up their treat bowl with strictly adult cannabis-laced confections. The couple was arrested one day after police received complaints from several parents, who said their children had returned home that night with Nerds Rope candies that contained 600 mg of THC each in their treat bags. Dean Pritchard has the story.
The couple was arrested one day after police received complaints from several parents, who said their children had returned home that night with Nerds Rope candies that contained 600 mg of THC each in their treat bags. (Police / Handout / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Feb. 1, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King rejected a proposal put forth by Lord Hailfax in Toronto that all nations of the British Commonwealth have a common policy on foreign relations and defence. The so-called Halifax-Smuts policy had divided King’s governing Liberal party. In Italy, Canadian troops of the British Eighth Army fought along the Adriatic coast and advanced toward Pescara. German prisoners were marched through Leningrad after it was freed by Soviet forces. Search our archives for more here.
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