Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of freezing drizzle. Fog patches dissipating this morning, with wind up to 15 km/h. Temperature steady near -2 C, wind chill near -7.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg New Music Festival kicks off today at the Centennial Concert Hall, starting at 7:30 p.m. Alan Small has an interview with the festival’s distinguished guest composer Missy Mazzoli. For more information, click here.
Missy Mazzoli knew from as early as 10 years of age she was going to be a composer. (Marylene May photo)
A virtual launch takes place at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate a book of essays on the work of prolific and pioneering Prairie author Rudy Wiebe. For more information, click here.
Today’s must-read
A Manitoba foster parent group is urging the NDP government to boost basic allowances and service fees, which have been frozen for more than a decade, or risk losing more caregivers to financial pressures.
The government-set rates haven’t kept up with cost-of-living increases and remain among the lowest in Canada, said Jamie Pfau, president of the Manitoba Foster Parent Association. Chris Kitching has the story.
Foster parent Jamie Pfau is calling on the province to increase allowances and service fees. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies.
In testing with another subspecies, the researchers created a southern white rhino embryo in a lab from an egg and sperm that had been previously collected from other rhinos and transferred it into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol-Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The Associated Press reports.
A ranger reaches out towards female northern white rhino Najin, 30, one of the last two northern white rhinos on the planet. (Photo/Ben Curtis / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 25, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that following the U.S. Supreme Court decree against racial segregation in schools, organized groups of white people in southern states were demanding their state legislatures override the federal decision. Winnipeg Enterprises, a community-owned non-profit responsible for building the new Winnipeg Arena in 1955, reported a profit of $48,502 for that year, a decline from the previous year’s $59,811. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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