Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with increasing cloudiness near noon then 30 per cent chance of flurries late this afternoon. Wind becoming west at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning then north at 30 gusting to 50 this afternoon. High 2 C, wind chill -12 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Choreographer Jera Wolfe is bringing his pandemic creation, Begin Again, back to Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, but this time audiences will be able to experience the performance in person. Thursday to Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m.; Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne Ave.
Begin Again, choreographed by Jera Wolfe, makes innovative use of light and shadow in a performance from Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers. (Leif Norman photo)
Today’s must-read
More than 100 people packed a hall in the southern Manitoba community of Carman Wednesday to remember five members of a family slain in a violent rampage 10 days ago.
Streams of mourners — many of whom wore purple in response to a request from organizers — made their way inside Carman Community Hall to pay their respects to Amanda Clearwater, 30, her three children— two-month-old Isabella, four-year-old Jayven and six-year-old Bethany — and Clearwater’s 17-year-old cousin, Myah-Lee Gratton. Erik Pindera reports.
People make their way in to the funeral service for Amanda Clearwater, Bethany, Jayven, Isabella Manoakeesick and Myah-lee Gratton on Wednesday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Researchers say a new treatment — called deep brain stimulation, or DBS — could eventually help many of those with depression that resists other treatments. It’s approved in the U.S. for conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, and many doctors and patients hope it will become more widely available for depression soon.
Electrodes implanted in the brain give the patient targeted electrical impulses, much like a pacemaker for the brain. A growing body of recent research is promising, with more underway — although two large studies that showed no advantage to using DBS for depression temporarily halted progress, and some scientists continue to raise concerns. The Associated Press has the story.
A sample pacemaker-like device, used for deep brain stimulation therapy. (Mary Conlon / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Feb. 22, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the city’s finance committee, at a secret meeting, instructed the heads of all civic services, including police and fire protection, to cut their estimated 1950 expenditures to the actual amounts they spent in 1949. On the eve of the election in Great Britain, the Conservatives and the Labor Party were running neck-and-neck. Poultry producers in Winnipeg and Calgary predicted a Canada-wide egg shortage in 1950 and ’51. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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