Weather warning
Gary Tessier and the rest of the Festival du Voyageur snow sculptors are going to have to bundle up today. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Extreme cold: You’d better bundle up — it’s brutal out there, as an extreme cold warning is in effect. Highway 75 between Winnipeg and Emerson and the Trans-Canada Highway between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, among other routes, were both shut down last night but reopened early today. Today’s forecast is sunny, with blowing snow in outlying areas this morning, a low of -29 C and a high of -24 C, peak winds from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 and wind chill as low as -44 this morning.
What’s happening today
A body bag on a stretcher was removed Tuesday from this home on Middle Gate. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Details on death: City police are expected to release more information about a death in Armstrong Point. Officers removed a body from a home on Middle Gate on Tuesday.
Federal funds: Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will announce support for Canada’s grain industry at a conference in downtown Winnipeg this morning. The Free Press will have all the details.
Pope on married priests: Pope Francis has avoided a thorny issue by declining to approve the ordination of married men to address the shortage of priests in the Amazon. Progressives Catholics had hoped the Pope would at least order further study of the recommendation, The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
New York Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin stopped 42 shots as the Rangers beat the Jets 4-1 on Tuesday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
Rangers cool Jets: The New York Rangers beat the Jets at Bell MTS Place last night, ending the home team’s winning streak at three games. “The last eight to 10 games, our team’s competed our asses off. Tonight was an off night,” Jets captain Blake Wheeler said. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Ambulance funding: Health Minister Cameron Friesen tweeted last week that the province has increased funding for the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service by 84 per cent since 2015, but his press secretary said Tuesday that includes replacing revenue lost when the province cut ambulance fees by 50 per cent. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Presidential primary: Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s Democratic primary by a close margin over Pete Buttigieg, while Amy Klobuchar surged to third. High-profile candidates Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden placed a very disappointing fourth and fifth, respectively, and two candidates dropped out. READ MORE
Sentenced for stealing: A former employee has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing jewelry from eight elderly residents of the Kildonan Long Term Care Home. Anna Mercado used lotion to remove tight-fitting rings and sold them to be melted down. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
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There was no Head Start on Tuesday because of an illness, but as you can see, we’re back today. (Sorry about the weather forecast, it’s beyond our control.)
On this date
On Feb. 12, 1977, the Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba Government Employees’ Union threatened to pull its backing of Ed Schreyer’s NDP government unless its members were brought under the province’s labour relations act. The provincial government was faced with questions about why an extra $1.4 million was needed to complete the Gull Harbour complex on Hecla Island. Nationally, the federal government was projecting a six per cent inflation rate for the year due to a sharp rise in food prices. READ MORE
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