Your forecast
Mainly cloudy skies with a high of -7 C and a low of -12 C.
What’s happening today
In Ottawa, the federal New Democrats begin a three-day caucus retreat. The Canadian Press reports.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg widow is demanding justice after her husband was killed at a Mexican resort during the couple’s honeymoon. Chris Kitching has the story.
Jesse Ropos, left, died early Friday morning at the Catalonia Yucatan Beach hotel in Puerto Aventuras, a gated community on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tomb in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor; initial examinations show that the tomb apparently belongs to the 18th Dynasty of Pharaonic Egypt (1550 BC to 1292 BC). Read more here.
On this date
On Jan. 18, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a fire at the Allandale Dairy on Notre Dame Avenue west destroyed the farm buildings and killed 58 head of cattle; damage was estimated at $30,000. Canada’s minister of justice Hugh Guthrie praised the U.S. secretary of state’s invocation of the nine-power treaty over the ongoing Japan-China conflict in Manchuria, saying “that it may bring Japan to her senses.” Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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