Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 60 per cent chance of flurries late this afternoon. Wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light this morning. Wind becoming south 30 gusting to 50 this afternoon. High -2 C, wind chill -12 this morning and -7 this afternoon.
A winter storm watch is in effect for Winnipeg, with an Alberta clipper expected to impact the Red River Valley beginning on Friday Morning, with reduced visibility likely in snow and blowing snow; blizzard conditions are possible.
Canadian climate officials say this year’s average global temperature is set to rival 2024’s record-breaking heat, and is virtually guaranteed to be hotter than any year on record before 2023.
Scientists with Environment and Climate Change Canada say the average global temperature is forecast to be about 1.45 C warmer than it was in the late 19th century. The Canadian Press has more here.
A person carries an umbrella for shade in Ottawa in June 2024, as temperatures hit 32 C. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
Exercise your body and art appreciation muscles with a yoga class at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq tonight at 8 p.m.
Yogis of all abilities are invited to take part in an hour-long evening flow class held in the gallery’s main hall. Wanda Koop’s View from Here series, featuring massive landscape portraits, is currently on view in the space. Tickets are $30, available online.
Rogue Yoga is hosting a yoga class in the main hall of the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Quamajuq. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The provincial government says it is not responsible for the wrongful convictions of two Indigenous men 50 years ago because its prosecutors didn’t know Winnipeg police officers had obtained false confessions.
Lawsuits filed last year by Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson accused police officers and a Crown prosecutor of colluding to bring false evidence into the trial. In separate statements of defence filed last week, the province claims that’s not the case.
The province admits the two men were victims of a “miscarriage of justice,” but says police, not provincial prosecutors, are the only ones responsible for investigating crimes and it is up to the federal courts to determine whether confessions are “voluntary and accurate.” Kevin Rollason has the story.
Allan Woodhouse (left) and Brian Anderson pose for a photo after exiting the Law Courts as innocent men in July 2023. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Grizzly bears that visited ecotourism areas along a river on the province’s central coast were less likely than others to encounter conflict with people in communities downstream, a new study by British Columbia-based researchers has found.
Jason Moody with the Nuxalk Nation’s fisheries and wildlife program said the research shows ecotourism done right is not a driving factor in conflict between bears and humans.
“The findings were pretty clear that if you’re viewing bears in the right way … (it) does not predispose them to bear-human conflicts later on,” said Moody, who contributed to the study and runs an ecotour operation based in Bella Coola. The Canadian Press reports.
A grizzly bear and its two cubs in the Khutzeymateen Inlet near Prince Rupert, B.C., in 2018. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 16, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba government was concerned it would laregely be denied benefits from the St. Lawrence Seaway, as the Lakehead shore properties were reportedly being snapped up by speculators, and nothing was being done to develop port facilities that would be needed to handle increased shipments for Manitoba economically. Western Canadian crude oil costs were increasing, which meant Winnipeggers were likely to see a hike in gasoline prices and bus fares. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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