Your forecast
Periods of light snow and blowing snow ending this afternoon, then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind from the west at 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 early this morning then diminishing to 20 this afternoon. High -12 C, wind chill -30 this morning and -20 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Syrian-Canadian novelist Danny Ramadan will share insights from his 2024 memoir Crooked Teeth, in which he details life as a queer Syrian refugee, tonight at 7 p.m. on the second floor of The Forks Market.
Ramadan will be in Winnipeg as part of the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation’s International Development Week, and will be joined by Faith Fundal of CBC’s Up to Speed.
Doors open at 6 p.m.; tickets are $20 and are available here. Light snacks and refreshments will be served, and Whodunit Mystery Bookstore will be selling Ramadan’s books as well as a handful of other titles.
Danny Ramadan (Hannes van der Merwe photo)
Tonight at 7 p.m., Winnipeg poet Melanie Dennis Unrau launches a book offering poems by workers in the Canadian gas and oil industry at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location. The collection The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry, published in October 2024 by McGill-Queen’s University Press, features work published between 1938 and 2019, all of which has been edited by Unrau and features musings on “how to make and unmake worlds that depend on fossil fuels.”
The free event will be hosted by Winnipeg’s Josiah Neufeld, author of The Temple at the End of the Universe.
Today’s must-read
The leaders of Manitoba’s two largest health authorities have been removed after financial audits determined repeated deficits in the last few years hindered their ability “to make the best decisions for patient care.”
On Wednesday, Manitoba Health published 333 pages of reports that analyzed service delivery, budgeting and fiscal management practices of all provincial health authorities, except for Southern Health.
“If the disease in our health-care system is a culture of dysfunction, then the symptom of that disease is fiscal mismanagement,” Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said during a news conference at the legislature. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Lanette Siragusa is being replaced as CEO of Shared Health. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A Winnipeg firm hopes to determine how a geothermal system could capture “waste” heat from a city-owned arena and use it to warm up nearby houses, a school and a personal care home.
GEOptimize, a geothermal consulting firm, is seeking funding for a feasibility study at the St. Vital arena.
“An ice arena takes a lot of heat from the ice in order to keep it frozen and that heat has to go somewhere. Almost all rinks out there are sending the heat outside to a cooling tower. If you go out past most arenas, you’ll see a big box sort of sticking out somewhere that is steaming away. That’s waste heat,” said Ed Lohrenz, the firm’s vice-president. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
A Winnipeg geothermal consulting firm is looking into capturing “waste” heat from St. Vital arena and using it to warm up nearby houses, a school and a personal care home. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 6, 1970: The Winnipeg Free Press reported CMHC loans available to Manitobans for public housing for 1970 could total as high as $18 million, according to municipal affiars minister Howard Pawley. West Coast ports remained at a standstill as a long-standing contract dispute involving 3,200 longshoremen returned to a boil, with picket lines being thrown around ports the previous evening. The Free Press centennial book, Tales of Early Manitoba by Edith Paterson, had sold out within four days of its publication and would get second printing. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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