What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA member of the mask compliance team walks through the Canada Life Centre concourse prior to the game between the Winnipeg Jets and the Pittsburgh Penguins Monday.
Few fans allowed: The Jets will play before a crowd of only 250 people in their first home game since Dec. 19. Several games were postponed after the province announced revised pandemic restrictions including limited crowd sizes at sporting events. Mike McIntyre has a column on the team’s recent road trip, in which the Jets earned only two out of a possible eight points. READ MORE
Political poll: A Leger poll shows support for the federal Conservatives is at 31 per cent, the same level as before the federal election last fall. Liberal support is at 34 per cent, down two percentage points from December. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole continues to trail Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in who respondents feel would make the best prime minister. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Residential school results: A First Nation in British Columbia is expected to release preliminary results of a geophysical examination at the site of a former residential school. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Police investigating parties: Police in London said they are investigating Downing Street lockdown parties in 2020 to determine if U.K. government officials violated pandemic restrictions. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Cameroon stadium crush: The death toll from a crush of people at a soccer game in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde is now eight after two people died in hospital. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSkaters on the Nestaweya River Trail, which opened in full Monday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
Your forecast: Sunny with a high of -22 C, wind chill as low as -46 earlier today and wind from the northwest at 15 km/h this morning.
In case you missed it
(Tyler Clarke/The Brandon Sun Files)Riding Mountain Progressive Conservative MLA Greg Nesbitt.
Flak over flight: Two Tory MLAs were out of the country when Premier Heather Stefanson advised caucus members to remain in Canada amid the surge of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. Greg Nesbitt, who represents Riding Mountain, said in a statement that a federal warning not to travel came hours after he had left the country. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Confused about carbon tax rebates: A survey published in the journal Nature Climate Change found rebates on carbon taxes haven’t helped Canadians warm to them and that people don’t understand them very well. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 25, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 160 people were rescued off the coast of New Jersey from the S.S. Mohawk, a Brazil-bound freighter, after it collided with a Norwegian freighter, the S.S. Talisman, in bad weather and sank. Winnipeg, having recently gotten a respite from frigid temperatures, was soon to be back in the deep freeze. Burglars struck three homes in the North End, making off with furs, clothing and jewelry worth $700.
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