Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of light snow, a high of -6 C and a low of -9.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Maple Leafs in Toronto, starting at 6 p.m. Jeff Hamilton reports on how Jets coach Rick Bowness is making changes to the lineup ahead of tonight’s game.
Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bowness (Mary Schwalm / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
The Millennium Library will fully reopen Monday with enhanced safety measures including police on the ground, more security staff and a metal detector. The city says those “interim security measures” are needed to allow the library to provide services to the public once again. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
The City of Winnipeg says the added ‘interim security measures’ will be in place when the Millennium Library reopens. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Archaeologists in Norway said this week they have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, with inscriptions up to 2,000 years old and dating back to the earliest days of runic writing. The Associated Press reports.
Kristel Zilmer, professor of written culture and iconography at the Museum of Cultural History, displays a runestone found at Tyrifjorden, Norway. (Javad Parsa / NTB Scanpix / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 19, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in three federal byelections, the opposition Liberals held on to two seats and flipped a Conservative seat to Liberal in a close contest won by 135 votes. A successful counter-coup led by his own officers ousted strongman Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria, restoring constitutional civilian government to the Dominican Republic. Unofficial reports indicated the Soviet Union was supplying the United Arab Republic for the first time with long-range jet bombers. Search our archives for more here.
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