Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, becoming cloudy this afternoon. Wind from the east at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High -1 C, wind chill -23 this morning and -8 this afternoon. A Yellow Warning – Snowfall is in effect for Winnipeg.
Winter is making a comeback on the Prairies, with cold temperatures and heavy snow in the forecast.
Environment Canada says parts of southern Saskatchewan are under an orange snowfall warning, with an area stretching from Prince Albert to Estevan expecting up to 35 centimetres of snow by Thursday morning.
Southern and western Manitoba are also expecting heavy snow, with 15 to 20 centimetres possible. The Canadian Press reports.
A snow covered moose sculpture welcomes visitors to the Calgary zoo in 2025. (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to publicly release today his new Buy Canadian plan for supplying the military and growing Canada’s domestic defence industry.
The $6.6-billion plan promises to prioritize building military equipment at home, hike the share of defence contracts awarded to Canadian firms and add up to 125,000 new jobs over the next decade. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney with Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jennie Carignan (centre left) and Minister of National Defence David McGuinty at Fort York Armoury in Toronto in 2025. (Chris Young / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Jennifer Rattray says few challenges facing Winnipeg are as urgent as the homeless crisis.
“Collectively as a society, as a province, as a city, we need to do better,” the new executive director of End Homelessness Winnipeg told the Free Press.
She says a humanitarian crisis has unfolded on city streets. “It’s awful,” she says. “We need to do something, and we need to do more than what we’re currently doing.” Scott Billeck has the story.
End Homelessness Winnipeg executive director Jennifer Rattray says her organization’s fiveyear strategic plan promises to incorporate Indigenous culture into its actions. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Dammecia Hall is an artist, and for her that means spending a lot of time by herself.
“I’m extremely anti-social,” says the dancer, choreographer and educator. “But as soon as you put me in a social environment, I come alive.”
One of the social environments Hall finds herself in these days is the West End Cultural Centre, the non-profit performance venue inside a former church at the corner of Ellice Avenue and Sherbrook Street.
While attending an event at the WECC, a friend of a friend encouraged Hall to volunteer at the venue. The 43-year-old Wolseley resident applied soon after, and has been volunteering at the WECC for more than a year. Aaron Epp has more here.
Dammecia Hall volunteers at the West End Cultural Centre. (Aaron Epp / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 17, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported the former police chief of Medicine Hat, Alta., was shot dead in his Vancouver office, and his assailant had escaped police. Cairine Wilson of Ottawa would become Canada’s first female senator. A U.S. senator from Kansas defended the U.S. Farm Board, as well as the Canadian Wheat Pool, from what he described as propaganda from grain gamblers. Search our archives for more here.
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