Your forecast
Periods of light snow and blowing snow, with wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High -7 C, wind chill -20 this morning and -14 this afternoon.
And while recent mild weather has made for treacherous conditions on some city sidewalks, as Tyler Searle reports, outside the city, “the winter that wasn’t” descended on southern Manitoba with a vengeance Thursday. Nicole Buffie has that story.
A section of the northbound sidewalk near Rue St. Jean Baptiste in the Central St. Boniface neighbourhood was covered in slick ice and pools of water Wednesday afternoon, forcing pedestrians onto the roadway. (Tyler Searle / Winnipeg Free Press)
What’s happening today
Vancouver singer-songwriter Harper K. Smith has teamed up with Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba (AANM) for a concert tonight at 7 p.m. at the Output, a second-floor performance space at the Artspace building at 100 Arthur St., which will serve as the official launch of Thirty Candles, her debut EP. Admission is free. Alan Small has more here.
Harper K. Smith (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
More school leaders across Manitoba are asking students to unplug themselves entirely during lesson times and requesting staff to be role models around positive phone-use.
Tuxedo’s Laidlaw School, Collège Béliveau in Windsor Park and West Kildonan Collegiate are among those that have announced stricter guidelines surrounding personal devices in 2024. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Grade 12 students put their cell phones in a storage pouch before their pre-calculus class at West Kildonan Collegiate Thursday. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several African countries. The Associated Press reports.
Artefacts returned from UCLA’s Fowler museum are carried to Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ghana, Thursday. (Misper Apawu / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Feb. 9, 1988: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Metropolitan Theatre could soon be in new hands if the city agreed to foot the costs of refurbishing the Donald Street landmark. In Des Moines, Iowa, former preacher Pat Robertson scored a surprising second-place finish to Kansas senator Bob Dole in the first contest for the Republican presidential nominee; vice-president George H.W. Bush placed third. Most of Manitoba’s Tory MPs joined those in other Western provinces in opposing Ottawa’s bid to strengthen the Official Languages Act. Read the rest of this paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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