Your forecast
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning, with wind becoming west 20 km/h this afternoon. High -18 C, wind chill -37 this morning and -27 this afternoon, with a risk of frostbite.
As British Columbia recovers from heavy snowfall Wednesday and Newfoundland braces for up to 50 cm of snow, extreme cold warnings remain in effect in the Prairies, with wind chill values around -40 expected in parts of northern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba. The Canadian Press reports.
What’s happening today
The Roblin Park Winter Carnival is on now and continues until Sunday. For more information, click here.
Roblin Park Winter Carnival (Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The financial pressure on 23,424 Manitoba businesses to repay a collective $1.27 billion in federal emergency loans by Thursday’s deadline will be too much for many to survive, business advocates and owners warn.
In 2020, the federal government launched the Canada Emergency Business Account program, with loans of up to $60,000 to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic — and up to $20,000 forgivable, if repaid by the deadline. That deadline is Jan. 18. Carol Sanders has the story.
Carol Yaschuk, owner of Ce Soir Lingerie in St. Vita (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A new study traces the 1,000-kilometre journey of a woolly mammoth from western Yukon to the interior of Alaska, where she died about 14,000 years ago, seemingly in the prime of her life, near a hunting camp for some of the region’s earliest humans.
Analysis of the mammoth’s tusk has unlocked insights into the iconic Ice Age species, with the research suggesting they “coexisted” for at least 1,000 years with some of the first people to cross the Bering land bridge into North America. The Associated Press reports.
Karen Spaleta, deputy director of the Alaska Stable Isotope Facilityy, takes a sample from a mammoth tusk found at the Swan Point archeological site. (Handout / University of Alaska Fairbanks / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Jan. 18, 1955: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Headingley jail, the scene of a riot a month earlier, was a “school for crime” according to a Winnipeg criminologist who was a former Kingston penitentiary official. Manitoba and other prairie provinces were not expected to follow Quebec’s lead in levying provincial income taxes. In Grotono, Conn., the U.S. Navy’s Nautilus submarine became the first vessel or vehicle history to get underway on the power of controlled nuclear fission. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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