Your forecast
Sunny with fog dissipating this morning. Expected high is -3 C, low -3 as well, but with wind chill of -22 this morning.
What’s happening today
Canadian folk music legend Bruce Cockburn will mark 50 years in the music business at the Burton Cummings Theatre. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Folk legend Bruce Cockburn (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Nonsuch Brewing Co.’s Festi Fridays, a celebration of all things Festival du Voyageur, is running Fridays throughout February both inside and outside its taproom at 125 Pacific Ave., beginning at 4 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s circuit court system is in crisis as undependable flight services are causing repeated cancellations of hearings across the province’s north country, denying residents access to justice, sources have told the Free Press.
“Literally every time any circuit flies there is uncertainty as to whether we have a plane, pilots or whether we can get home,” said one lawyer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Things are getting dire. We feel like they are playing a joke on us.”
Winnipeg Free Press files
On this date
In Feb. 10, 1975: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Belfast, the Irish Republican Army agreed to a ceasefire, but fears mounted Protestant extremists would sabotage it after a machine-gun attack on worshippers leaving a Roman Catholic church. In Washington, former CIA director Richard Helms admitted he failed to tell U.S. Senate committees all he knew about CIA work in Chile, and withheld information about the Nixon administration’s desire to have the Marxist government of Salvador Allende overthrown. Search our archives for more here.
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