Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with wind northwest at 20 km/h. High -12, wind chill -28 this morning and -20 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg-born, North Carolina-based bestselling author Kate Bowler and Regina-born, Calgary-based Sarah Bessey are teaming up tonight at 7 p.m. for a double book launch at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location. Bowler’s new book is Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day and Bessey’s is Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith. The launch is free, and will be streamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube page.
Kate Bowler (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Once a busy hub, the abandoned Noyes-Emerson East border checkpoint still receives regular visitors. It remains one of the most common places people illegally walk across Manitoba’s border with the U.S. for asylum or other reasons.
“Going other places, you might risk freezing or succumb to other elements,” said Cpl. James Buhler, a longtime member of the Manitoba RCMP’s integrated border enforcement team. “It’s a less-dangerous route. However, it does come with recourse there, as far as legality. We want to encourage people to do it legally and go to the ports of entry.” Chris Kitching and Ruth Bonneville have the story.
The former official border entry near Emerson is now often the site of illegal crossings. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades.
The successful move of 21 eastern black rhinos to a new home will give them space to breed and could help increase the population of the critically endangered animals. It was Kenya’s biggest rhino relocation ever. The Associated Press has more here.
On this date
On Feb. 15, 1969: The Winnipeg Free Press reported East German and Soviet troops were on the move in the area between Berlin and the West German border, adding to fears that manouevres would be held in East Germany at the time of the contested West German presidential election in March. In Ottawa, it was announced federal financial assistance to correct regional economic disparities in Manitoba was on the way with the creation of the new department for regional development. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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