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A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of flurries. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High -18 C, wind chill near -30. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Paris today for a global summit on artificial intelligence, as U.S. president Donald Trump is expected to announce steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, is greeted by President of France Emmanuel Macron as he arrives for a private dinner at Palais de l’Elysee in Paris on Sunday. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s justice minister is asking the federal finance and public safety ministers to better combat money laundering by beefing up the civil forfeiture powers of the provinces and allowing for better co-operation across jurisdictions.
Provincial justice minister Matt Wiebe requested “further action at the federal level to help crack down on money laundering” in a letter to Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Wiebe asserted federal action would give provincial agencies “important new tools to cut off the money supply to organized crime and help us get toxic drugs like fentanyl off our streets,” in a letter sent Friday afternoon and provided to the Free Press. Erik Pindera has the story.
Justice Minister Matt Wiebe (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Whether they were cooking for sick people or contributing to their synagogue, Aviva Tabac’s parents were often helping others.
It made an impression on Tabac, who started volunteering as a teenager.
“I try to do an act of kindness every day,” she says. “That’s a big part of my life.” Aaron Epp has more here.
Aviva Tabac (right) community engagement manager for B’nai Brith Canada in Winnipeg and community engagement assistant Noa Kaufman at Kavod Thrift Store, which opened in the fall. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 10, 1921: The Manitoba Free Press reported fire losses in Canada in 1920 reached $27.1 million, or $3.12 per capita, with half of the total damage costs from 72 commercial fires; rigid enforcement of penalties for carelessness was recommended. Mennonites planning to leave Saskatchewan and Manitoba to resettle in Mississsippi and Alabama should not expect any special privileges regarding education or releigion, an Alabama landowner in negotiations with a Mennonite group told an audience in Herbert, Sask. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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