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An Orange Warning – Cold is in effect for southern Manitoba. A mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of flurries. Wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High -26 C, wind chill -47 this morning and -39 this afternoon. Frostbite in minutes.
What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets host the Florida Panthers at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
🖼️ Lights On the Exchange is brightening up winter for the fourth year. The winter public arts festival is a collaboration between the Exchange District BIZ, Artspace Inc., Manufacturing Entertainment, Platform Centre and the Winnipeg Film Group and will feature works by more than 30 artists from Manitoba and across Canada, including 24 public art installations, large-scale digital projections and live performances. Exchange District, various locations.
Lights on the Exchange features 24 public art installations, large-scale digital projections and live performances. (John Woods / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
What had, at first glance, looked like a man repeatedly hitting a fence with a stick on a Grant Park-area street corner was really a terrifying machete attack Tuesday afternoon.
The gruesome scene unfolded in full view of nearby homes and businesses at the intersection of Lorette Avenue and Nathaniel Street, a couple of blocks from Grant Park Shopping Centre.
“The first thing I noticed was this guy, and I thought it was a stick, and he was whacking it against the fence,” said a witness who works nearby and asked not to be identified.
Moments later, the witness realized the man was waving a machete — not a stick — in the air as he, another man and a woman walked east along Lorette Avenue. The witness quickly looked back toward the corner where the group had been and saw a bloodied man get up from behind a snowbank on the boulevard and run to a duplex at 1221 Lorette Ave., banging on the door in an attempt to get help. Scott Billeck has the story.
Blood on the front steps of a house at the corner of Lorette Avenue and Nathaniel Street where the victim of a machete attack sought refuge on Tuesday afternoon. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
A call to delete building requirements that help prevent birds from fatally colliding with windows triggered hundreds of calls to stop the change, before city council approved a compromise.
More than 600 written submissions opposed a city staff recommendation to eliminate bird-friendly window requirements for certain developments within mall and major transportation corridor sites.
City planning officials said developers consider the rules a barrier to getting more homes built.
Council ultimately voted to impose less-detailed guidelines.
“We tried to establish a bit of a win-win here, where we can get malls and corridors developed, get development on those spots, while at the same time protecting the birds,” said Mayor Scott Gillingham. Joyanne Pursaga has more here.
The rules aim to protect birds by ensuring certain windows break up reflection, which helps birds recognize window glass as a solid object. (Supplied)
On this date
On Jan. 22, 1966: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, five Social Credit MPs saved the minority Liberal government from defeat by voting against a proposal to hike old age pensions. At the Royal Alexandria Hotel in Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway president R. A. Emerson charged that the Canadian Wheat Board had for years been setting “unrealistic” in-term grain shipping targets for his railway. In Los Angeles, a professor of surgery said only knives and guns were more deadly than automobile steering wheels when it came to injuries seen in hospitals in recent years. Search our archives for more here.
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