Your forecast
Periods of snow and local blowing snow ending this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming west 30 gusting to 50 this morning. High 2 C. Wind chill -25 this morning.
What’s happening today
The first carbon rebate of 2025 is being paid out today to households in provinces that use the federal carbon pricing system — even as the future of the rebate program itself remains uncertain.
For a family of four, the rebate will pay out anywhere from $190 in New Brunswick to $450 in Alberta, with people in small and rural communities receiving a 20 per cent boost to their rebates. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
The University of Winnipeg is shuttering its English Language Program and benching female soccer players for the upcoming season as administrators navigate “significant financial challenges.”
University president Todd Mondor informed the campus community of the cost-cutting measures Tuesday.
“Enrolment in the English Language Program (ELP) has dropped dramatically due to changes in federal policies affecting international student mobility. As a result, ELP is no longer financially viable. Individual programs currently in progress will run to completion, but no additional programming will be launched,” Mondor wrote in an internal memo that has since been made public.
The women’s soccer program is also being suspended in 2025. There is no men’s team. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Winnipeg Wesmen team captain Sydney Arnold, centre, says she and her peers were “blindsided” by the University of Winnipeg’s decision to suspend the women’s soccer program in 2025. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
There’s a new place of worship in Morden — the city’s first mosque.
Operated by the Pembina Valley Islamic Society, the mosque is located in an 1,800-square-foot former commercial space in a downtown strip mall on North Railway Street.
Approval for the mosque, called a masjid in Arabic, was granted by Morden city council on Dec. 23. John Longhurst has more here.
Syed Vakeel, one of two volunteer imams at Morden’s new mosque, speaks to worshippers. (Syed Faizan Nasir photo)
On this date
On Jan. 15, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that giant snowplows from Manitoba’s highway department were slowly clearing the primary provincial highways, and bus and streetcar service in Winnipeg had returned to normal, after snowfall from the winter’s worst blizzard abated. In Niagara Falls, Ont., the Canadian Construction Association was told by a government spokesman that there was little doubt the target of 50,000 housing units for the year ending March 31, 1947 would be met. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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