Your forecast
Periods of light snow ending this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud, with wind from the northwest at 20 km/h. High -13 C. Wind chill near -24.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets, coming off a 5-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, host the Anaheim Ducks at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Being a Winnipegger became a little more expensive as the calendar flipped into 2025 on Wednesday.
Most will pay a little more to ring in the New Year, whether it’s fuel prices and transit fares or property taxes and city fees.
For Winnipeg Transit riders, that means a 10-cent hike for regular fares, which works out to just under $4 on monthly e-pass and paper passes. Scott Billeck has the story.
Winnipeg Transit bus fares increased by 10 cents for adults on the first day of 2025. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
When the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Friday, it will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky. A waning crescent moon means good visibility under clear and dark conditions.
Most meteor showers are named for the constellations where they appear to originate from in the night sky. But the Quadrantids “take their name from a constellation that doesn’t exist anymore,” said NASA’s William Cooke. The Associated Press has more here.
This 1825 etching provided by the Library of Congress shows an astronomical chart depicting Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leashes, a quadrant, and the hair of Berenice forming the constellations. (Sidney Hall/Library of Congress via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Jan. 2, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that although German forces were withdrawing from the westernmost bulge of the Belgian salient, Germany was making a new push into the Bitche area in northeastern France. Following the destruction of 221 German aircraft in Europe by Allied fighters and bombers, the Allies’ aerial offensive continued, with 6,000 RAF and American planes sent over the continent on New Year’s Day. Manitoba was the coldest of the Prairie provinces overnight, reaching lows of -23 F in Rivers, -22 F in Brandon and -21 F in Winnipeg. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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