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What’s happening today
Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in as the 47th president today. The Associated Press reports.
Snow falls on the Capitol in Washington, Sunday. (J. Scott Applewhite / The Associated Press)
Today’s must-read
Every night before bed, 64-year-old Moira Connolly says her prayers and then shoves a small freezer against the entrance to her tiny St. James apartment.
The Manitoba Housing resident says it’s one of several safety measures she’s been forced to take — such as keeping a naloxone kit and sterile gloves by the front door — as her building deals with increased drug use and crime.
She contacted the Free Press after Premier Wab Kinew unveiled his government’s strategy to end chronic homelessness, which includes a plan to move people from encampments into social housing.
Connolly is worried that could make matters worse at her building. Carol Sanders has the story.
Moira Connolly stands next to her freezer that she pushes against her entrance each night to keep herself safe in her Manitoba Housing complex. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Caterina Sotiriadis wished she had recorded her parents’ history when they were alive. The idea inspired a five-year volunteer project in which she and three friends interviewed more than 100 Manitobans of Italian descent.
“My mother and father died, and I never recorded their stories. It’s one of my regrets,” Sotiriadis, a longtime volunteer at Centro Caboto Centre on Wilkes Avenue, says.
Sotiriadis partnered with Cristina Campomanes, Eliana Handford and Anna Dell’Acqua — all four are Italian immigrants themselves — to form the Manitoba Italian Canadian archival committee. Aaron Epp has more here.
Cristina Campomanes (from left), Eliana Handford and Caterina Sotiriadis took part in a project that involved interviewing 101 Italian Manitobans from 2018 to 2024. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 20, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Regina, Saskatchewn members of Parliament and the executive of the Saskatchewan wheat pool discussed alleged efforts by members of the North West grain dealers association to deny farmers their legal right to name the terminal to which their wheat would be shipped. In Havana, Cuba, there was mush discussion of having Canada involved in the Pan-American Union within the next few years. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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