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What’s happening today
🎭 Fame can be funny. One day, the internet mistakenly pairs you with a Brazilian supermodel you’ve never met. Another day, a waitress at the Calgary airport asks for a photo, then tells you — innocently enough — that you looked “much fatter on TV.”
Ryan Belleville laughs at both. After all, the comedian and actor, who appears at Rumor’s Comedy Club from today to Saturday, has been doing this long enough to know that fame is best handled with a sense of humour. Aileen Goos has more here.
Actor/standup Ryan Belleville moved back to Canada last summer. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Two women who died in a West End house fire Saturday were remembered as loving and easy-going by a family member who was saved when firefighters pulled her through an open window.
Family said Tyana Nattaway, 18, and Crystal Loonfoot (née Beardy), 48, were found on the second floor of 365 Agnes St., just north of St. Matthews Avenue, while some survivors jumped out of windows to escape.
“We were all still sleeping. The fire was going really fast,” survivor Jane Flett, 62, told the Free Press Monday. “We didn’t have time to think about anything.”
She said 16 people were in the rented house — eight on the main floor and eight upstairs — including a one-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl. The fire was reported shortly after 9:40 a.m. Saturday. Chris Kitching has the story.
Police are investigating the fire and looking into whether arson was at play. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties.
The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that’s led to new kinds of art, music and more.
Now, for the first time, an experiment hints that an ape in captivity can have an imagination.
Kanzi, a bonobo who learned to communicate with humans, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Ape Initiative / The Associated Press)
Enter Kanzi, a bonobo who was raised in a lab and became a whiz at communicating with humans using graphic symbols. He combined different symbols to make them mean new things and learned how to create simple stone tools.
Scientists wondered whether Kanzi had the capacity to play pretend — that is, act like something is real while knowing it’s not. The Associated Press has more here.
On this date
On Feb. 10, 1939: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Vatican City, Pope Pius XI, 261st successor to the throne of St. Peter, had died. In London, hopes for an end to the war in Spain rose again with continued consultations between the British and French governments on possible peace plans. According to a recent survey by the Free Press, Winnipeg property owners would pay less in taxes in the coming year than in any single year since 1920. Search our archives for more here.
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