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Retirement appetizing: David Northcott, who has fought hunger for three decades as the head of Winnipeg Harvest, will retire this summer. Mayor Brian Bowman says Northcott’s impact on the community cannot be overestimated. READ MORE
Your forecast: Expect a mainly sunny day with a high of -11 C. It will cloud overnight. The low will be -16. On Saturday, there will be periods of light snow beginning in the morning. High of -11. On Sunday, it will be sunny and cold — high of -17. Normal high for this time of year is -11; normal low is – 21.
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RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS FILESWhen the appointment was announced, Dr. Harvey Chochinov told the Free Press he was ‘profoundly humbled and honoured’ to be chosen.
Medicine over politics: He applied and was selected to become a Canadian senator, but in the end Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, a Winnipeg psychiatrist and palliative care expert, decided political life was not for him. A statement from the Privy Council Office said Dr. Chochinov told the prime minister he could not accept the position for “personal, family and professional reasons.” READ MORE
Another NDP battle: A new controversy is brewing among Manitoba New Democrats, this time over the method of choosing a new leader — and the fact that the interim leader and party president are skirting the party’s normal decision-making processes by appealing directly to members for a “one member, one vote” system. READ MORE
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Verdict livestreamed: The verdict Monday in the Winnipeg trial concerning infant bodies found in a storage facility will be livestreamed. Andrea Giesbrecht, 42, is charged with six counts of concealing a child’s body. It isn’t the first verdict to be broadcast in Manitoba. That occurred in 2014.
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PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSMaddie Pearlman expecting more than 30 law students to help out at Saturday’s research-a-thon.
No longer safe: Advocates for refugees say it’s time for Canada to scrap a deal with the United States that sees asylum-seekers who show up at ports of entry returned to the U.S. They say America is no longer a safe place for refugees, and so many will risk their lives to cross the border on foot. READ MORE
’60s Scoop compensation: Lawyers and ’60s Scoop survivors are welcoming the news that the federal government wants to settle claims from an estimated 20,000 indigenous children who were taken from their homes in Canada and adopted in places as far away as the southern U.S. and Europe. READ MORE
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#FootballMovies: No, not “The Longest Yard” or “Friday Night Lights”; make up your own, such as “The Land Before Halftime,” “Mean Joe Greene Girls,” or “Fifty First Downs.”
On this date
On Feb. 3, 1982: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Canadian Wheat Board had been instructed by the federal Official Languages Commission to increase its French-language services. In Britain, Queen Elizabeth remained popular after 30 years on the throne. A Winnipeg Progressive Conservative MP, after taking a trip to South Africa, commented that black people in that country were not ready to rule themselves; a party spokesman dissociated the PC party from the MP’s remarks, reiterating its opposition to the regime’s apartheid policy. READ MORE
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