Your forecast
Light snow, with blowing snow at times this morning. Wind from the west at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High -17 C, wind chill -35 this morning and -25 this afternoon, with a risk of frostbite.
Brandon School Division buses will not be operating outside the city of Brandon all day owing to poor rural road conditions; for a map of Manitoba school divisions, click here and select a school division for updates and announcements.
Environment Canada’s weather map looks like a quilt made up of various warnings and alerts from coast to coast. The Canadian Press reports.
What’s happening today
D.J. Demers, star and creator of One More Time, a new sitcom that premièred on CBC and CBC Gem last week, performs at Rumor’s Comedy Club starting tonight at 7:45 p.m. and continuing until Jan. 20. Click here for showtimes and ticket info; the Jan. 18 show is sold out.
D.J. Demers (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press files)
The Winnipeg Jets host the New York Islanders at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The daughter of a woman believed slain by an alleged serial killer has accused Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party of discrimination, claiming officials violated the Human Rights Code when they ran election ads proclaiming their decision not to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for human remains.
Cambria Harris submitted the complaint on behalf of her mother Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified woman known as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman), all of whom are believed to be victims of the same killer. Tyler Searle has the story.
Cambria Harris has accused Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party of discrimination. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Last year was a big one for Cadena Brazeau.
In March, the 18-year-old was one of two Manitobans — along with 34 other finalists across the country — to be chosen as a Loran Scholar, a $100,000 award given annually to those who embody the Loran Scholars Foundation’s core values of character, service and leadership. Aaron Epp has more here.
Cadena Brazeau (centre, with sunglasses on her head), shown last month at a basketball tournament she helped organize in Keeseekoowenin First Nation. (Supplied)
On this date
On Jan. 16, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Montreal, the general manager of the central selling agency of the Canadian wheat pools said despite the recent slump in the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, the price of wheat for May delivery was pegged at 80 cents and would stay there. In Winnipeg, school trustees heard proposals that would mean a $500,000 increase in the school board budget over 1934. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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