Your forecast
Cloudy, with snow beginning early this morning. A blizzard warning is in effect for Winnipeg. Wind from the west at 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming north 70 gusting to 90 this morning. Temperature falling to -13 C this afternoon. Wind chill -7 this morning and -31 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
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What’s happening today
David Robertson launches All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live With Anxiety tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location.
Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
David A. Robertson (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A highly accomplished Crown prosecutor, George Dangerfield had a career that was the stuff of legends. From the early 1970s until 2000, he prosecuted dozens of Manitoba’s most notorious criminals. Serials killers, predatory rapists and bent cops all faced justice at the point of Dangerfield’s accusing finger.
He fought many of his cases all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, making new law in victory and defeat before the highest court in the land.
But Dangerfield, who died in Septmeber 2023, has a record that will be subject to intense scrutiny and even more intense debate within the criminal justice system.
At present, the late prosecutor is linked to five wrongful convictions involving eight men who collectively spent more than 100 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. Dan Lett and Katrina Clarke have the story.
Former Crown George Dangerfield is questioned at the Driskell Inquiry in 2006. (Wayne Glowacki / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A specialized clinic at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre could be a model for delivering same-day, specific care across Manitoba, its medical director says.
For five years, the Wilf Taillieu Thoracic Surgery Clinic and Endoscopy Unit at HSC has diagnosed, treated and operated on patients suffering from esophageal cancer, lung cancer and other conditions.
The clinic takes same-day referrals and biopsies and can diagnose certain types of cancer in as few as two weeks. Prior to the clinic’s existence, some conditions took up to eight weeks to diagnose. “You will never find an intervention like this that is universally kind of a win, win win,” said Dr. Biniam Kidane. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Dr. Biniam Kidane in a procedure room at the Wilf Taillieu Thoracic Surgery Clinic and Endoscopy Unit in the Health Sciences Centre. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 17. 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a cold snap in the city continued, with temperatures in the greater Winnipeg area expected to hover around -20 F (-29 C). In Ottawa, the Canadian Consumers Protest Assocation suggested in a brief to Parliament that government officials might not be acting to bring down food prices because they depended on food companies for campaign funds. In Hanoi, president Ho Chi Minh said the people of North Vietnam cherished peace, but would never surrender their independence to purchase peace for their country. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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