Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a few flurries beginning early this morning and ending near noon. Blowing snow late this morning and this afternoon. Wind from the southwestat 20 km/h becoming northwest at 60 gusting to 80 this morning then diminishing to 40 gusting to 60 this afternoon. Temperature falling to -16 C this afternoon, wind chill -9 this morning and -28 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
A 62-year-old retiree with an arsenal of rulers has been keeping people informed about snowfall in eastern Newfoundland during a record-breaking winter.
Lloyd Leaman has been diligently measuring snowfall in his backyard in Paradise, N.L., and posting the results to social media since January 2024. The Canadian Press has more here.
Sixty-two-year-old Lloyd Leaman stands in front of a towering snow bank in Paradise, N.L., on Wednesday. (Sarah Smellie / The Canadian Press)
What’s happening today
📽️ Stories of Black women in Nova Scotia are being highlighted this weekend at Cinematheque.
Three documentaries made between 1989 and 1992 by filmmakers Claire Prieto and Sylvia Hamilton will screen, including their collaborative work Black Mother Black Daughter, credited as one of the first National Film Board productions created by an all-female crew. Tonight at 7 p.m.; Saturday 5 p.m.; Sunday 3 p.m.
📖 Ottawa novelist Emily Austin visits McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m. in support of her new novel, Is This a Cry for Help?, published in January by Scribner.
Today’s must-read
Some Manitobans who are or were stranded in Mexico after a burst of drug-cartel violence were frustrated by WestJet’s lack of communication and efforts to get them home.
Customers told the Free Press they felt abandoned after flights were cancelled, and they called on a federal regulator to ensure airlines comply with their legislated obligations to provide regular updates and get passengers on their way as soon as possible following a disruption.
Winnipeg resident Trent McPhail, who is in Puerto Vallarta with his wife and two children, ages three and five, said WestJet wouldn’t help because the family booked with a third-party website.
“Why does WestJet get to wash their hands of not getting us home in a reasonable time?” he said. Chris Kitching has the story.
On Tuesday morning, four flights left Winnipeg for Mexico: two WestJet flights and one Air Canada flight to Cancun, and a WestJet flight to Puerto Vallarta. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.
The B.C. man says he’d started that day last year feeling hopeless, but the news he was cured filled him with indescribable happiness.
Sperle is the first person known to have received and be cured by a treatment known as “prime editing,” in a breakthrough by U.S.-based Prime Medicine reported in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine last December. The Canadian Press has more here.
Ty Sperle has been cured of a rare disease called chronic granulomatous disease in the first use of a genetic technology known as “prime editing.” (Handout / Sperle family / The Canadian Press)
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