Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this afternoon. High -11, wind chill -32 this morning and -19 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
As Kevin Rollason reports, Winnipeg is on track to have its warmest winter — by far — in a decade.
Dayton Moreton has frost collecting on his touque as he goes for his usual run down Wellington Crescent Thursday afternoon. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
What’s happening today
Pantera, with Lamb of God and Child Bite, play at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Comedian Ron James brings his witty act and East Coast lilt through Winnipeg to Club Regent Event Centre, 1425 Regent Ave. W., during his latest cross-Canadian tour. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Ron James (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew signalled Thursday he’s open to the possibility of an inquiry into Child and Family Services’ involvement with a Manitoba family before a mother, her three children and her teenage “cousin” were slain last weekend.
Kinew commented after the mother of 17-year-old victim Myah-Lee Gratton told the Free Press she had warned CFS against her daughter’s placement in a Carman home, based on safety concerns about the man now charged in the mass killing.
“We have a responsibility as government, when terrible things like this happen in our province, to ask the question: what went wrong and, more importantly, how are we going to fix it?” Kinew said at an unrelated news conference alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Chris Kitching and Katie May have the story.
Premier Wab Kinew said his government is committed to preventing intimate partner violence. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On the bright side
The unseasonably warm weather meant the new executive director of Festival du Voyageur, Breanne Lavallée-Heckert, felt her excitement rise as the temperature dropped to a February-appropriate -13 C on Thursday, the eve of Winnipeg’s annual winter carnival. “Very happy to see the colder weather, because the grounds here were all mud,” said Lavallée-Heckert. The festival starts today and runs until Feb. 25; Alan Small has the full story here.
Franziska Agrawal (left) from Munich, Germany and Bob Fulks (right) from Detroit, USA, team up to work on an snow sculpture they have titled Twist. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 16, 1989: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Soviet human rights crusader Andrei Sakharov, who was in Winnipeg to receive a $20,000 humanitarian award from St. Boniface General Hospital Research Foundation, and his wife Yelena Bonner, joined Indigenous activists outside the hospital protesting human rights violations. In Ottawa, the Conference Board of Canada predicted higher grain prices and improved crop yields promised to make the western economy the strongest in Canada in the coming year. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
