Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with wind from the north at 30 km/h. High -17 C, wind chill -39 this morning and -27 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
Jamie Muzik clears off his vehicle with a leaf blower on Ruby Street Thursday morning. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
Extreme cold and biting wind has gripped Western Canada and it won’t shake loose until at least Saturday. Environment Canada cold and Arctic outflow warnings have covered the Canadian map red, from Haida Gwaii to near Hudson Bay. The Canadian Press reports.
What’s happening today
Scott Nolan, the city folk singer and poet, officially launches his new album, Before Tonight, tonight at the Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club; doors open at 8:30 p.m., show starts at 9:30. For ticket info, click here.
The Winnipeg Renovation Show opens at noon at the RBC Convention Centre, and runs till Sunday. For ticket information, click here.
The Home Renovation Show is on at the convention centre this weekend.(Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A Toronto-based lawyer famed for representing the wrongfully convicted has asked the Manitoba Court of Appeal to overturn the 2022 conviction of a Winnipeg man found guilty of slaying his mother.
On Wednesday, James Lockyer, a founding director of Innocence Canada, appeared before Justices Holly Beard, Karen Simonsen and David Kroft seeking to have them order a new trial and allow fresh evidence to be admitted. Erik Pindera has the story.
Founding director of Innocence Canada James Lockyer (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Anna Almojuela is now mom to an eight-month-old girl, but she needed help. Almojuela, who struggled with fertility, received in vitro fertilization, and now she and her husband, Rezan, are parents to Elyanna.
Now a new expanded clinic will help more Manitobans have children whether they need surgery or in vitro fertilization. Heartland Fertility has opened a 15,000 square-foot clinic in the Tuxedo Business Park complete with a hysteroscopy suite, where gynecological issues can be diagnosed, and other laboratories. Read the full story here.
Dr. Gordon McTavish, medical director, cuts the ribbon for the new Heartland Fertility clinic with help from four-year-old Smith Warnick on Thursday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 12, 1974: The Winnipeg Free Press reported pay for clergy in Manitoba varied widely, with questions whether anticipated raises for many would be able to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Winnipeg saw its third bank robbery in as many weeks when the Bank of Montreal at 428 Portage Ave. was held up. In Ottawa, the House of Commons adjourned until Feb. 26, but the Senate sat to consider the government’s conroversial wiretap bill. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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