Your forecast
Cloudy, with a few flurries beginning early this morning and ending this afternoon. Wind from the north at 20 km/h gusting to 40. Temperature steady near -11 C, with wind chill -22 this morning and -16 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Over a half-dozen local brewers will convene at Promenade Brasserie, 130 Provencher Blvd., for the inaugural Festival of Beers, 6-10 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Promenade Brasserie owner Jay Lekopoy (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The Winnipeg Jets face the Boston Bruins at TD Garden, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A rally inside the Marlborough Hotel devolved into chaos Sunday afternoon as people forced their way through locked doors in the building’s basement and ransacked a bar area, leaving the lower level littered with broken glass and drenched in alcohol.
Upstairs, on the downtown hotel’s main floor, dozens of people had gathered in protest after a four-week old video of an Indigenous woman restrained and confined inside the hotel lobby circulated online. Tyler Searle has the story.
A sign shows the discontent over the incident at the hotel. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
“If you’re going to do something, do it well.” That’s what Ridhwanlai Badmos’s mother often tells him, and it’s advice he’s taken to heart. The 18-year-old is an avid volunteer who is dedicated to helping those around him.
Two years ago, when he was a Grade 11 student at Windsor Park Collegiate, Badmos founded Wake Up Mental Health. The non-profit organization offers workshops in support of mental well-being. Aaron Epp has the story.
Ridhwanlai Badmos started a non-profit called Wake Up Mental Health. (Supplied)
On this date
On Jan. 22, 1926: The Manitoba Free Press reported that lieutenant governor Sir James Aikins outlined the government’s plan for development, with particular emphasis on agriculture, in the new session of the legislature. Three hundred Doukhobor families in the Kamsack distritct of Saskatchewan, numbering 2,500 people, had sold their settlement of 50,000 acres to a Ukrainian immigration organization in Edmonton and would be returning to Russia. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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