Your forecast
Sunny with a high of -17 C, low -19, wind chill as low as -34 this morning.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Blue Jackets in Columbus, starting at 6 p.m. And as Mike McIntyre writes, though the Jets are among the best in the West, their record against opponents in the East is less than stellar. The next four games, starting tonight, all in enemy territory, “would be a good time to start bucking a trend,” McIntyre writes.
David Rittich made 27 saves in the Jets’ Tuesday night win over Seattle. The backup netminder is likely to see action at some point during the Jets’ upcoming four-game road trip. (Fred Greenslade / The Canadian Press files)
This week until Friday, Winnipeg hosts the 2023 Winter Cities Shake-up Conference, which features designers, planners, entrepreneurs, tourism operators, cultural workers, community organizers and other experts talking about how cities and their citizens can make the most of winter. See what Winnipeg has to offer in Alison Gillmor’s story.
Public City Architecture credits their design and construction of Manitoboggan for opening up ‘new kinds of thinking about what public space could be and should be in Winnipeg.’ (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
A two-year-old boy is on life-support after suffering burns to much of his body in a blaze raising concerns about a lack of firefighting resources in some northern Manitoba communities.
Ronnie Wavey and four of his siblings were rescued by a 17-year-old girl while flames engulfed an apartment complex in Tataskweyak Cree Nation early Saturday afternoon. Chris Kitching has the story.
And as Danielle Da Silva reports, First Nations leaders are demanding more support for life-saving fire safety programs with this fire occurring less than one year after a house fire killed three youth in another northern community.
Fire engulfed an apartment complex in Tataskweyak Cree Nation last week. (Handout / RCMP)
On this date
On Feb. 16, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in the legislature, a fiery debate full of charges and counter-charges from leading government and opposition officials ended without approval being given to establish a legislative committee to probe charges of excessive brewery profits. Debate on the matter was scheduled to continue for a second day. The University of Manitoba, facing a 60 to 75 per cent increase in enrolment over the coming decade, was looking at requirements for new students, which faculties could take more students, and new building construction. Search our archives for more here.
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