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Increasing cloudiness, with 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Wind from the west at 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming northwest 20 near noon. High 4 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the San Jose Sharks at Canada Life Centre, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
With a Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders, Kiril Lukin listened as hundreds of voices sang his country’s national anthem on Sunday, marking the third anniversary since Russian forces invaded his home.
“A lot of my memory will be about my brother,” Kiril said, holding a picture of Nazanir Lukin, who died fighting for Ukraine about two years ago when he was just 24 years old.
“We grew up together. He was caring about me when my parents weren’t home.”
Kiril, 16, and his father Betro Lukin joined the large crowd who gathered at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights throughout the afternoon to display support for the embattled country. Tyler Searle has the story.
Former Ukrainian soldier Betro Lukin holds a framed image of his late son, Nazanir, while his younger son, Kiril, holds up a Ukrainian flag during a ceremony marking the third anniversary of Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Sunday. (Mike Sudoma / Free Press)
On the bright side
Three Winnipeggers are being recognized for their efforts to stop impaired driving and support its victims.
MADD volunteers Tanya Hansen Pratt, Trevor Ens and David Greening are scheduled to receive the King Charles III Coronation Medal, which is given to Canadians who have made significant contributions to the country or their community.
“I feel so honoured that I was even suggested to receive this,” Hansen Pratt says. “I think it’s amazing.” Aaron Epp has more here.
On this date
On Feb. 24, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ottawa, the agriculture minister announced the Dominion seed purchasing commission, established in 1916 to supply seed grain to farmers in areas experiencing crop failure, would be discontinued. In a Brandon courtroom, a man accused of complicity in a Melita bank robbery testified in his own defence. In London, Lord Carnavon, a backer of the archaeological enterprise excavating in Egypt’s Valley of Kings, said he and others associated with the work wished to leave the body of pharoah Tutankhamen in its sarcophagus in its present resting place. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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