What’s happening today
Why would the Jets consider moving Kyle Connor, who leads the Jets in points? (David Zalubowski / The Associated Press files)
Match in Motown: The Winnipeg Jets are set to face the Red Wings in Detroit at 6:30 p.m. in the visiting team’s only game in an 11-day span. Four games scheduled at Canada Life Centre during that period have been postponed because of pandemic restrictions that would allow only 250 fans. Jason Bell has a feature on quiet Jets superstar Kyle Connor. READ MORE
Anniversary of deadly disaster: Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of a cruise ship disaster by honouring the 32 people killed. The captain of the Costa Concordia, who steered the ship too close to shore in a stunt and delayed an evacuation order until it was too late, is serving a 16-year prison sentence for manslaughter and other offences. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of light snow until after 8 a.m., then a mix of sun and cloud with a high of -13 C, a low of -17 C, wind chill as low as -24 in the late afternoon and wind from the north at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning.
In case you missed it
JESSICA LEE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe Wilder family left to right: Lamont, Mackenna, 7, Jennifer and Alyssa, 11.
Getting second shots early: With in-person classes set to resume Monday, some Manitoba parents are getting their young children’s second vaccination dose early instead of waiting the recommended time between shots. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Asked to turn in tests: With a limited supply of rapid tests, schools are asking families to return unused kits given out to students if they don’t plan to use them. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Rule reversed: Ottawa has nixed a mandate requiring Canadian truckers to be fully vaccinated by Saturday. The new rule will still affect unvaccinated U.S. truckers, who will be turned away at the border. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
‘Absolutely crushing’: Patients are being left on stretchers in hallways because of a surge in demand at Grace Hospital’s emergency department, the president of the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals says. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 13, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Canada’s auditor general said an Army mistake that saw gasoline pumped into tanks already being used for oil in Churchill cost the Canadian taxpayer $80,560; the loss had not been reported by the Army and came to light in an audit. Soviet press and radio announced the arrest of nine doctors, most of them Jews, on charges of killing two top Russian leaders and plotting the deaths of others in alleged conjunction with intelligence agencies in the U.K. and the U.S.
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