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Mainly sunny skies with a high of -18 C and a low of -23; wind chill this morning -37, and -28 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Ukrainian Artists United, a new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, opens today, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine. Alan Small has the story.
Ukrainian Artists United, a new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, opens today. (Aaron Cohen / CMHR
The Winnipeg Jets host the Colorado Avalanche, starting at 7 p.m.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq and the Black Professionals in Music (BPM) program at Manitoba Music have teamed up for an intimate and interactive evening of local music featuring a trio of Manitoba’s buzziest Black artists, tonight at 7 p.m. Songwriter/producer JayWood, hip-hop artist Nestor Wynrush and soul singer Keisha Booker will perform sets at the event, which will be hosted by the Free Press’s own Julia-Simone Rutgers.
Today’s must-read
More than 100 Filipinos were offered jobs by representatives of Manitoba health care organizations during the first leg of a five-day recruitment mission to the island nation in Southeast Asia, which began earlier this week. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Feb. 24, 1977: The Winnipeg Free Press reported tempers flared and fists flew when 30 tenants protesting any move to remove rent controls were denied entrance to a Manitoba Landlords Association meeting. Glazers working on the new $7.5-million Credit Union Plaza on St. Mary Avenue would install 2,800 glass units before the building was completed in June. Winnipeg was hit by blowing snow, reducing visibility to less than one kilometre. Search our archives for more here.
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