What you need to know
Former Crown Services minister Cliff Cullen told non-profit organizations not to expect substantive changes in the way MPI helped them with grants. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Support slashed: Manitoba Public Insurance has cut its funding for community groups in half. “We don’t have a lot of money to begin with,” Manitoba Brain Injury Association executive director David Sullivan says. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
‘Very interesting piece’: Ottawa has acquired a book once owned by Adolf Hitler that says Winnipeg had the highest proportion of Jews in Canada. Archive officials say the book hints at Nazi plans to overtake North America. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: An extreme cold warning is in effect. Today will be sunny with a high of -24 C and wind chill as low as -37 this morning, with a risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Furloughed EPA worker Jeff Herrema holds a sign outside the offices of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, in Park Hills, Ky., Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
Separate bills in Senate: The U.S. Senate is set to vote on two proposals to end the partial government shutdown, but neither is expected to get the required 60 votes. READ MORE
Refugee reform: A report by the World Refugee Council calls for reforming a “floundering” asylum system. Dylan Robertson spoke with the council’s chairman, Winnipegger and former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Jacquelyn Martin / The Associated PressPresident Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a healthcare roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump yields: U.S. President Donald Trump says he will postpone his state of the union address, ending a political showdown with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. READ MORE
Comparing careers: Mike McIntyre says the paths taken by Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff and Peter Chiarelli, who was recently fired by the Edmonton Oilers, should serve as a cautionary tale for NHL executives. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 24, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the UN deliberated on a United States bid to have Communist China branded formally as an aggressor in Korea. Meanwhile. U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower toured Europe’s Atlantic pact countries and deemed a western barrier against the risk of Communist Russian aggression difficult but possible. A new bill amending the British North America Act would allow Canadian provinces to impose an indirect sales tax, but that would be capped at 3 per cent.
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