Your forecast
Cloudy, with periods of snow beginning this morning, about 2 cm, but Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning prolonged light snow may cause significant snowfall accumulation of up to 15 cm in the Red River Valley tonight and Thursday morning. Wind today from southeast at 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High -9 C, wind chill -22 this morning and -16 this afternoon.
While it is finally getting colder in Manitoba after a mild start to winter, it’s even chillier in parts of British Columbia. Environment Canada is warning parts of northern B.C. to expect wind chill values as cold as -50 for at least the rest of the week. The Canadian Press reports.
Environment Canada is warning parts of northern British Columbia to expect wind chill values as cold as -50 C for at least the rest of the week. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Any way you slice it, there’s plenty of disappointment to go around a year after Chip and Pepper Foster announced their purchase of Winnipeg’s iconic KUB bakery brand.
The gregarious Winnipeg-born identical twins, who rode a popular tie-dyed, surf-inspired clothing line to fame and fortune in the 1990s — including a Saturday morning cartoon on NBC south of the border — made headlines last year when they announced the purchase of the near-century-old brand and equipment just weeks after its owner closed the doors.
At the time, they said they hoped to ramp up the production of KUB’s typical 6,000 loaves of bread a day within four months. Today, outside of local partnerships producing small batches and selling locally, that hasn’t happened. Malak Abas has the story.
Pepper (left) and Chip Foster at the press conference announcing their purchase of KUB Bakery last January. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
In Albuquerque, N.M., a business to be spun off by General Electric will build hundreds of turbines for what will be the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere, part of a massive equipment order and long-term service agreement with the global renewable-energy giant Pattern Energy. The Associated Press reports.
Two workers assembling key wind turbine components at the GE Vernova manufacturing facility in Pensacola, Fla. (Rebecca Shurtleff / GE Vernova via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 10, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported editor-in-chief John Wesley Dafoe had died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 77; known as the dean of Canadian journalism and widely respected across the country and internationally, his death was called a “national loss” by prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The Soviet Union’s 2nd Ukrainian Army was closing in on the Pomoshnya junction 45 miles west of captured Kirovograd; the junction’s capture would cut off one of the last rail routes out for German troops in the Dnieper bend. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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