Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud near noon. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 2 C, wind chill -9 this morning.
And as Kevin Rollason reports, temperature records tumbled across the province on the final day of January as Manitobans basked in unseasonably warm mid-winter weather. Whether near the U.S. border in Emerson, Morden and Winkler, further north in McCreary and Grand Rapids, or up in The Pas, records that had stood for years, or in some cases decades, were broken. Read more here.
Ben Ireland (left) and Alex Smith take advantage of the warm weather Thursday to hit a bucket of balls at Shooters Family Golf Centre. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Even the forecast indicated by one prognosticating rodent on Groundhog Day says Canadians can expect more warm weather.
Shubenacadie Sam, seen here in 2018, did not see his shadow today. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
Black History Manitoba gets things underway for Black History Month as it takes over the Manitoba Museum for First Fridays from 4 to 9 p.m. with entertainment, music, community vendors and food. For more information, click here.
Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change, a new exhibition opening today in the Level 1 Gallery at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, highlights the artists who reflected the times they lived in, and explores how music has been a vehicle for social and political change from the 1950s to today. Jen Zoratti has the story.
Lead curator Julia Peristerakis says Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights explores the role of music in social transformation and political change. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
After medication and treatment for mental illness — which kept Cathy Van Buskirk going for 20 years — stopped working five years ago, she had one thing to live for: knowing that soon she could receive a medically assisted death with family at her side.
On Thursday, news that the federal government won’t allow MAID to be available for people with mental illness until at least 2027 came as a blow. “That’s just unreal,” said the 56-year-old Brandon woman for whom life has become unbearable. “It’s very hard.” Carol Sanders has the story.
Cathy Van Buskirk (Supplied photo)
On this date
On Feb. 2, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Washington, the White House was giving serious attention to Hanoi’s statement that peace talks could be possible if there were a halt to U.S. bombing in North Vietnam. In Winnipeg, 70 people attended the first meeting of the Prairie Prices Commission, which was studying the costs of food and the money going to farmers for their goods; one attendee demanded to know why back bacon cost $2.55 a pound. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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