Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries. Blowing snow in outlying areas late this morning and this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest at 40 km/h gusting to 60 this morning. High -14 C, wind chill -23 this morning and -31 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
📚 The Wild and Wonderful Words reading series kicks off 2026 tonight at Sookram’s Brewing Co. (479-B Warsaw Ave.) with a slate of writers ready to share their work.
Readings come courtesy of locals Joel Nedecky, A.W. Glen, Tiff Bartel and Matt Horseman (also a Free Press book reviewer) along with late addition Kirsti MacKenzie of northern Ontario. Hosting the event, as always, will be Sheldon Birnie (also a Free Press reviewer).
Things get underway at 7 p.m.; admission is free, and the event is all ages. For more literary news and events, be sure to check out Ben Sigurdson’s latest Paper Chase column.
Today’s must-read
A former Manitoba man, convicted and then cleared in one of the province’s highest-profile murder cases, is in custody in Vancouver, charged with unlawful confinement and sexual assault, the Free Press has learned.
Mark Edward Grant, the man ultimately found not guilty in the abduction and killing of 13-year-old Candace Derksen 41 years ago, is being held by the Vancouver Police Department for an incident that occurred Jan. 8, Const. Megan Lui said Tuesday.
“Currently Mark Edward Grant is in custody, and the investigation is ongoing at this time, so I can’t speak into detail about the case,” Lui said in an email. Tyler Searle has the story.
Mark Edward Grant (File)
On the bright side
The spring months can make for some long days for Saphira Twoheart.
Once the snow melts, the 18-year-old goes from school during the day in Sagkeeng First Nation to football practice in the evening in Winnipeg. It’s a 90-minute commute each way from her community in Fort Alexander that usually doesn’t get her home until close to midnight three days per week, but Twoheart believes that trip has paid big dividends since starting with the Falcons Football Club three years ago.
She isn’t shy about voicing what the Falcons have meant to her.
“When I first started football, I was a very shy and timid type of person, but over the years of playing football, it’s made me more talkative and more comfortable in my own skin, to the point where I could coach other teammates with the skills that I have,” Twoheart said Tuesday. Joshua Frey-Sam has more here.
Saphira Twoheart (front left) said the Falcons Football Club has helped her come out of her shell. (Supplied)
On this date
On Jan. 21, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press, publishing jointly with the Winnipeg Tribune, reported a nationwide strike tied up nearly the entire U.S. steel industry, with 1,600,000 workers walking off the job. In France, Gen. Charles de Gaulle resigned as president. In Ottawa, former Winnipegger Col. Omond Solandt would head up a new research and development branch of the defence department. In Manitoba, wind-driven snow piled up on highways and blocked Winnipeg streets. Search our archives for more here.
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