Your forecast
Mainly sunny skies with a high of -15 C, and wind chill of -32 this morning; low of -18.
What’s happening today
The Bank of Canada is expected to hike its key interest rate today by another quarter-percentage point, bringing it to 4.5 per cent and continuing its monetary policy tightening. The Canadian Press reports.
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
Winnipeg author and politician Wab Kinew launches his latest young adult novel, The Everlasting Road, at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg school division is changing instruction start and end times — in some cases by as much as 45 minutes — in an effort to address enrolment and transportation challenges. Thousands of elementary and middle-years students in the Pembina Trails School Division will be affected by timetable changes that go into effect in the fall. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Alison Beyer, with her six-year-old son, Ben, says she panicked when she learned his school’s start time would be pushed back from 8:40 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Tyndall Stone, the tan-coloured variety of limestone quarried only in Manitoba that adorns the provincial legislature and many other Winnipeg landmarks, has been named a Global Heritage Stone Resource Tuesday by the Subcommission on Heritage Stones, a part of the International Union of Geological Sciences. Alan Small has the story.
Fossils, such as this one at the Manitoba Legislative Building, are common finds in Tyndall Stone. (Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 25, 1943: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Canadian corvette, Ville de Quebec, was responsible for sinking a German submarine in the Mediterranean; one of the corvette’s officers was Sub.-Lieut. G.P. Nares of Winnipeg. German radio reports said British prime minister Winston Churchill had left London for a meeting with U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt; in London, it was suggested that U.S. Lieut.-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would be named commander of joint Anglo-American operations in the Mediterranean. The Soviet armies of the Caucasus moved to encircle the entire German field force south of the Rostov line. Search our archives for more here.
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