Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness early this morning, with fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 1 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
La Poutine Week runs Feb. 1 to 7 at restaurants across the city. The national competition from the founders of Le Burger Week is now in its 12th year. Visit lapoutineweek.com for a forthcoming list of participating restaurants and their creative approaches to fries, cheese curds and gravy.
The Ron Burgundy, Underdogs’ 2023 La Poutine Week entry. (Supplied / La Poutine Week)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba Hydro’s plan to ask the private sector to build new and costly electricity generation projects is being met with resistance from the NDP government, which wants the new infrastructure bankrolled publicly.
On Wednesday, Finance Minister Adrien Sala appeared to pull the plug on the utility’s strategy to meet increasing energy demand through purchase agreements with “independent power producers,” who can take on the capital costs of developing new generation projects in Manitoba, such as wind farms. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
(John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows. Sea otters eat constantly and one of their favorite snacks is the striped shore crab. These crabs dig burrows and also nibble away roots of the marsh grass pickleweed that holds dirt in place. The Associated Press has more here.
Bringing sea otters back to a California estuary has helped restore the ecosystem. (Emma Levy via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Feb. 1, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an official with the Manitoba Sugar Co. said the planned merger with the British Columbia Refining Co. would not be broken unless the federal government declared it illegal. A Winnipeg school trustee asked, since there were many more special work classes in River Heights for students with IQs above 130, whether intelligence in general was higher south of the Assiniboine River. Opposition leader Duff Roblin was halted by the speaker when he tried to introduce the controversial brewery profits issue into a response to the throne speech. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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