Your forecast
Periods of snow, with blowing snow in outlying areas, with total amount between 2 to 4 cm. Wind from the northwest at 40 km/h gusting to 60. Temperature falling to -19 C this afternoon, wind chill -25 this morning and -32 this afternoon, with risk of frostbite.
Weather is affecting school closures in some school divisions; you can find your division on this map and click through to the division website for updates.
Malak Abas reports on how the city is handling the first significant snowfall of the winter.
People cross Portage Avenue on Wednesday as snow begins to fall. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Chicago Blackhawks at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
In the St. Boniface Hospital emergency room, the wait time was more than 13 hours. In the building’s atrium, Premier Wab Kinew and Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara were promising to add 36 medicine beds to cut that number.
“Our hope is that all of these beds will come on line within a year,” Asagwara said Wednesday afternoon at a news conference in the Winnipeg hospital. Carol Sanders has the story.
Adding in-patient beds is a “vital step” toward reducing ER wait times, St. B emergency department medical director Dr. Paul Ratana told reporters. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 11, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the number of charitable drives in Canada was increasing each year — in 1932 in Winnipeg there were 13, and in 1952 there were 25 — and large donors were were fielding more requests than ever. Fire struck four times over the weekend in the greater Winnipeg area, including one blaze at a photographer’s studio that caused $90,000 worth of damage. U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower sought a change in government farm aid, and wanted the U.S. to sell more food abroad. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
