Your forecast
Mainly sunny today with wind gusting up to 15 km/h. High of -18 C, but with wind chill it will feel like -34 C and -25 C this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Statistics Canada is set to release its reading on inflation for January this morning.
Today’s must-read
A million cups of coffee, 295,000 meals and 41,152 overnight sleeps for 1,331 people make up the 2022 bottom line of a shelter and soup kitchen that serves some of the most needy Winnipeggers.
Siloam Mission relies on donations, and it, like other non-profits that are on the front lines of the battle against poverty, has hit the post-Christmas financial wall. Kevin Rollason reports.
Aaron Scarff, Volunteer Coordinator at Agape Table. The number people who need shelters, soup kitchens and food banks in Manitoba is up but donations are always down this time of year. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 21, 1927: The Manitoba Free Press reported monstrous waves were “spreading death and destruction” down the coasts of New York and New Jersey as rain, sleet and wind-whipped snow menaced the Atlantic seaboard. Sweden and Belgium entered an agreement to never go to war “over any subject.” In Winnipeg, two clubs — one on Garry Street and the other on McDermot Avenue — were raided by officers of the “Winnipeg city police morality department.” Police seized 34 cases of beer and arrested 14 alleged gamblers. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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