Your forecast
Clearing this morning. Wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light this afternoon. Temperature falling to -17 C this afternoon. Wind chill -27 this morning and -22 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
⛸️ The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics officially get underway today with a multi-site opening ceremony spread across northern Italy. The Free Press’s Mike McIntyre is there. Read full Olympics coverage here.
🎸 Hut Hut releases the band’s second album, Hut Hut, the followup to 2020’s Hut Hut Hut, at Public Domain, 633 Portage Ave., tonight at 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $15, available online.
Hut Hut releases its sophomore album Friday at Public Domain. (Sara Smith photo)
Today’s must-read
A mother urged her 39-year-old son to surrender amid a police manhunt after he allegedly abducted his 20-year-old current or former partner at knifepoint in a northern Manitoba community Thursday morning.
RCMP issued a dangerous-person alert for Joshua Paupanekis, which triggered notifications on mobile phones across the province, while searching for him and Raeanne Thomas, who investigators believe is in immediate danger, in and around Pimicikamak Cree Nation.
“Please my son Josh, turn yourself in,” Paupanekis’s mother, Kimberlee Johnson, wrote in a text message that she sent to a friend to share with the Free Press.
“If you really love Raeanne, let her go. Don’t hurt her. She’s a sweet young girl. Her family is waiting for her, and I’m waiting for you, too. I don’t want her hurt, please.” Chris Kitching has the story.
On the bright side
In a small building on St. Anne’s Road, packages of dried chickpeas, dates and rose water are stuffed into cardboard boxes.
The boxes are neatly packed along an assembly line with about a dozen items before being handed off to a table of young women who wrap them in clear cellophane adorned with polka dots and seal it with a purple ribbon.
“We want to make it feel a little special and make it look nice and put together. Because we could just give them a basket, but we want to make sure it looks nice,” said volunteer wrapper Sumha Ali.
The group of 16 volunteers hope to pack 175 food hampers in just two hours. After all, there’s no time to waste: Ramadan is only two weeks away and they want to get hampers in the hands of families well before it begins. Nicole Buffie and John Longhurst have more here.
Iqra Tariq packs Ramadan hampers for Volunteers with Islamic Relief at Healthy Muslim Families on Thursday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 6, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Quebec premier Daniel Johnson planned to launch a counterattack against widespread opposition to Quebec’s claims to greater governmental powers as “homeland of the French-Canadian nation.” In Vietnam, Communist forces battled against superior firepower in Saigon as devastation from fighting spread across the south. Search our archives for more here.
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