Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of light snow this morning. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h near noon. High -16 C, wind chill -31 this morning and -25 this afternoon with a risk of frostbite.
Meanwhile, climate change made Canada’s warmest December in more than 50 years about twice as likely, a temperature anomaly that stood out around the world, a new study has found. The Canadian Press has the story.
A skier walks down a patchy ski slope at Whistler, B.C., in Decembe. (Ethan Cairns / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
Fleurs de Villes Voyage, a new exhibit featuring floral mannequins showcasing differnt cultural traditions, is on now at The Leaf, until Sunday. AV Kitching has a preview of what visitors can expect.
Juliet Cadiz of Posh Pampas highlighted the Pahiyas Festival in the Philippines. It is one of 15 one-of-a-kind floral mannequins inspired by global travel destinations created by local florists using fresh flowers and other natural plant material. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Anyone following trends in Winnipeg crime will know Furby Street — part of “murder’s half acre,” as it was known as early as the 1990s — all too well.
The first homicide of 2024 — a fight in an apartment that ended in the death of 62-year-old man and a 59-year-old charged with second-degree murder on Jan. 5 — happened on the 800 block of Furby.
Talk to people living on the street anywhere near where violence has occurred and many of the responses are similar: crime is out of control on Furby, but residents care about the community and have no interest in leaving. Malak Abas has the story.
Steph Jones, a tenant and caretaker at 142 Furby St., shovels snow outside the townhouse Friday, a day after she helped a neighbour who had been shot on the West Broadway street. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 17, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Soviet Union’s Red Army captured Warsaw in its greatest victory of a six-day offensive in Poland, rapidly undermining the German position along a 600-mile front. British troops of the 2nd Army advanced into the Dutch village of Dieteren, two miles from the German frontier. In the Pacific, B-29 superfortresses bombed military installations in Formosa, after carrier planes wrecked at least 30 and as many as 100 Japanese ships near that island. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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