Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a 60 per cent chance of flurries. Blowing snow in outlying areas this afternoon. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming northwest 30 gusting to 50 near noon. High -15 C, wind chill -38 this morning and -26 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
The struggle of Canadian families to make ends meet in a turbulent economy is expected to be a key theme as Parliament reconvenes today after the holiday break.
Opposition members say they will press Prime Minister Mark Carney to back up his bold words about Canada’s future with concrete action. The Canadian Press reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters as he arrives to a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sunday. (Patrick Doyle / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
After Alberta emergency room horror stories made national news last week, a push for doctors across Canada to speak up about patients dying while waiting for care is unlikely to gain traction in Manitoba, critics say.
“Understanding what happened in a patient’s death, particularly in complex health-care settings, requires careful, evidence-based review,” Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said Friday in an email. “Any patient death is a tragedy and our first responsibility is to treat patients and their families with dignity, respect, and care.”
Last week, a Calgary-based think tank praised ER doctors in Alberta who recently documented six cases of patients dying while waiting for emergency services. The doctors described what they called preventable deaths, along with indignities and suffering by patients, in a letter sent to the provincial government earlier this month. Carol Sanders has the story.
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Wanted: A volunteer with musical talent who’s willing to dress like a nun and have some fun.
Sisters of the Holy Rock, the non-profit performance group that helps Manitoba organizations raise funds, is searching for a new artistic director.
Dressed in traditional nun habits, the choir’s members — which include both women and men — put on 75- to 90-minute variety shows. Since forming more than 30 years ago, the choir has given upwards of 550 performances and helped raise nearly $4 million for numerous organizations. Aaron Epp has more here.
Sisters of the Holy Rock members Lynn Ohlson (left), Deanne Wasylyshen and Rob Falkingham. The choir has 44 members and a 14-person crew, nearly all of whom are volunteers. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 26, 1927: The Manitoba Free Press reported the most formidable array of British fighting ships since the the Great War had been assembled at the China station to back up the British policy of protecting life and property; the combined force in China would soon number 19,000 men. In Winnipeg at the Marlborough Hotel, representatives of war veteran organizations in Canada and Britain met to discuss greater unity between them. Winnipeg businessmen travelled to Pine Falls to inspect the new pulp mill of the Manitoba Paper Company. Search our archives for more here.
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