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Sunny with a high of -9 C, but the temperature is expected to fall to -12 this afternoon, with a low of -17.
What’s happening today
Shaun Majumder headlines the grand opening of Yuk Yuk’s Winnipeg at the Fort Garry Hotel, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg property owners are facing higher tax bills and fees as Mayor Scott Gillingham’s first budget targets crumbling infrastructure and includes measures to improve critical services such as Winnipeg Transit and 311.
The average single-family homeowner will pay an extra $142 though the 3.5 per cent property tax hike and one-time frontage levy increase of $1.50 per foot in the proposed 2023 budget, which was tabled Wednesday.
Mayor Scott Gillingham (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 9, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Winnipeg city council voted 12 to 5 to increase the city’s contribution to the Pan Amercian Games from $260,000 to $460,000, as well as voting to ask the federal government to increase its grant to $1.25 million and the provincial government to contribute a straight $1 million. Massive anti-American protests blocked Beijing streets as China became the first of Hanoi’s allies to make threats of retaliation for U.S. and South Vietnamese air strikes against North Vietnam. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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