Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with wind up to 15 km/h. High -2, wind chill -14 this morning and -4 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Manitoba Theatre for Young People’s presentation of the award-winning The Problem with Pink is on now and continues to Saturday. Holly Harris has a review here, and for ticket information and showtimes, visit mtyp.ca/on-stage.
The Problem with Pink unfolds through a series of kaleidoscopic vignettes, kicked off by the terrible news from the outside world that pink is just for girls. (Verchere Jean-Charles photo)
Today’s must-read
A weeks-long shutdown of Liquor Mart locations last summer cut Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries’ profits by an estimated $10 million, owing to lost sales and the cost of hiring replacement staff to keep the booze flowing.
The bitter labour dispute with the Crown corporation’s liquor workers likely prevented millions from flowing into the province’s coffers, MLL chief executive officer Gerry Sul told a legislative committee last week. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
(John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Against a backdrop of unimaginable racism and hardship, William Hall’s courage on the battlefield in 1857 led him to become the first Black person awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest military decoration.
On Monday, Nova Scotia’s annual Heritage Day, the province paid tribute to Hall, who was born in Horton’s Bluff, N.S., in April 1827. The Canadian Press reports.
In 1859, William Hall of Horton Bluff, N.S., became the first Black man to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the British Empire’s highest award for bravery. (Handout / Black Cultural Centre Collection / Public Archies of Nova Scotia)
On this date
On Feb. 21, 1940: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Sweden, seven Soviet bombers struck the border town of Pajala, destroying four buildings. A blizzard sweeping across Finland threatened to immobilize transport on all fronts, even as the Finns sharply denied Soviet claims the Red Army had captured the strategic town and fortress of Kolvisto. The news editor of the Free Press, returning from a two-month tour of England and France as a war observer, said there was a growing feeling in Britain the Allies would strike first in the spring, beating Germany to the punch. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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