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Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of light snow, with wind becoming south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High -4 C, wind chill -19 this morning and -12 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
A sentencing hearing is set to resume today for a man who killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont. Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk on June 6, 2021. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
A city councillor is hoping his idea to preserve trees by giving them a historic designation takes root.
Coun. Matt Allard’s new motion aims to better protect some cottonwood groves in his St. Boniface ward by adding them to the city’s list of historical resources.
Allard said he’s not aware of any previous historic designations used to preserve trees, but he’s optimistic that his motion will determine that they are eligible. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
Pam Lucenkiw says cottonwood trees were once abundant along rivers but many have since vanished, increasing the need to preserve the rest. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The high-pitched tweets, trills and chirps sound like the chorus of birds in the treetops. But the songs documented in new research emanate from sites including abandoned mines in British Columbia, and the voices belong to silver-haired bats.
Authors of a new study say that while bats are well known for using sound to echolocate prey and navigate around objects, silver-haired bats have now been identified as only the second such species in North America that has been documented as singing. The Canadian Press reports.
A silver-haired bat is shown in this undated handout photo. (Handout / Cori Lausen / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Jan. 23, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, the body of the late monarch, George V, would be transported to Westminster Abbey, accompanied by grieving members of the royal family and high officers of church and state. In Winnipeg, oaths of allegiance to the new monarch, King Edward VIII, were taken by lieutenant governor W.J. Topper, judges of the Manitoba bench, premier John Bracken, and members of the provincial cabinet. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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