Your forecast
Snow ending near noon, then a mix of sun and cloud. Blowing snow this morning and early this afternoon, with wind from the north at 50 km/h gusting to 70, diminishing to 30 this afternoon. Temperature falling to -20 C this afternoon; wind chill -34 this morning and -29 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the St. Louis Blues at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
As Mike McIntyre reports, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is set to meet with Jets co-owner and chairman Mark Chipman, key sponsors and business leaders, members of the media and even some fans in a “fireside chat” prior to puck drop. This is because Jets attendance has taken a nose-dive this season, which is raising alarm bells within the league’s head office. Read the full story here.
Jets co-owner and chairman Mark Chipman will meet with NHL Commissioner, business leaders, sponsors, media and fans Tuesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A city councillor is calling for the seizure of downtown property donated for an interpretive centre near Upper Fort Garry that has failed to materialize 15 years later.
Meanwhile, the group that promised to transform the surface lot at Assiniboine Avenue and Fort Street in 2009 continues to collect parking proceeds — about $100,000 annually as of 2020 — from the property adjacent to the historic site. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
Questions are being raised about a proposal to turn a surface parking lot alongside Upper Fort Garry provincial park into an interpretive centre. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Pacey Wall, a 10-year-old from Winkler with a rare medical condition, made a gift to HSC Children’s Hospital Monday. Wall spent the last year as Manitoba’s Champion Child, representing kids like himself who rely on the hospital, and raising funds to transform child health care and research in the province. That resulted in an official donation on Monday of $34,000. Read more here.
Pacey Wall presents a cheque to Dr. Richard Keijzer, Children’s Hospital pediatric surgery lead, Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 27, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the RCMP searched the snow-covered banks of the Assiniboine River along Wolseley Avenue, while city police dragged the frigid waters for the body of Billy Digby, 7, who had been missing since the previous afternoon. In the Pacific Ocean, 17-year-old Manitoban Tommy Magnusson was among those shipwrecked at sea for five days before their lifeboat was spotted about 275 miles south of Iwo Jima. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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