Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, clearing late this morning, with wind becoming south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 near noon. High 4 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg police are facing allegations of excessive force after videos of an arrest that turned fatal show officers beating an intoxicated man with a baton and shocking him with a Taser before carrying his limp body away.
A University of Winnipeg criminologist who viewed the footage called it “gluttony of physical punishment,” and three eyewitnesses who captured the video of the incident in the parking lot of their Crestview apartment complex have been left shaken by what they saw. Tyler Searle has the story.
Video footage from a doorbell camera of the arrest outside the 200 block of Fairlane Avenue. (SUPPLIED)
On the bright side
New and expectant moms at Villa Rosa pregnancy support centre are again putting their artistic skills on display. Last winter, residents at the Wolseley area facility painted benches on the Wolseley Winter Wonderland’s frozen river trail, collaborating on four different designs of Indigenous-themed artwork.
This year, single, pregnant students had their sights set on an even bigger canvas: an inukshuk, provided to them in individual pieces that would be turned into a finished product once designed. Kieran Reimer has the story.
Members of the Villa Rosa community and Assiniboine River Art Knowledge keepers took part in a small ceremony on the Assiniboine River to honour for creating artwork, including four benches and an inukshuk (foreground) for the Wolseley Winter Wonderland River Trail. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 30, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the president of the Winnipeg Electric Co. sought the abolition of a gross earnings tax and and modifcation of charges for paving and snow removal that affected his streetcar company, in a presentation to the city’s transportation committee. Flooding on the Ohio River affected water levels on the Mississippi, where workers strove to maintain levees over a 1,000-mile stretch. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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