Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of light snow and risk of freezing drizzle early this morning. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light this morning. Temperature falling to -4 C this afternoon, wind chill -9 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Tampa Bay Lightning at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg police shot and killed a 19-year-old in Fort Richmond Sunday afternoon, the latest deadly use of force by officers in less than one week.
Officers responded to a call from someone inside an apartment suite on University Crescent around 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon, Winnipeg Police Service Chief Danny Smyth told reporters Monday. The caller told police a man was armed and acting erratically. Nicole Buffie reports.
Winnipeg Police Service Chief Danny Smyth speaks to reporters on Tuesday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
In Transit
The Free Press‘s series looking at Winnipeg Transit continues. Russell Wangersky chronicles the community of commuters relying on the bus. Maggie Macintosh weighs the success of the Blue Line service.
A Winnipeg Transit bus headed to the University of Manitoba on the Blue Line in December. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Brent Bellamy looks at Winnipeg’s decision to focus on BRT rather than light rail. Dan Lett looks ahead to the future of mass transit in Winnipeg.
You can find all the stories in the series here.
On the bright side
Mike Smoljanovic wants to help his nephew, so he’s grabbing his guitar and putting on a rock show.
Smoljanovic is organizing Band Together for Isaac at the Park Theatre. A group of 13 local musicians will perform two sets of rock covers from the past 30 years on Friday.
The money raised will go to the family of Isaac McCrimmon, Smoljanovic’s two-year-old nephew, who lives with a rare blood disorder and leukemia. Aaron Epp has the story.
Coda’s Mike Smoljanovic (middle right), a.k.a. Small J, is organizing Band Together for Isaac at the Park Theatre. (Supplied)
On this date
On Jan. 2, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported the United States served as an intermediary between Germany and France for a proposed non-aggression pact meant to last for a generation. In Dublin, former officers of Tipperary Brigade in the Irish Republic Army passed a resolution calling for a peace confeence. In Winnipeg, a 40-year-old man was intercepted and arrested by a police constable after the suspect allegedly robbed a Chinese restaurant at gunpoint. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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