Your forecast
Thirty per cent chance of flurries this morning, with snow beginning this afternoon. Expected high is -8 C, with a low of -16.
What’s happening today
Michael Lawrenchuck’s one-act, one-man show The Gravedigger returns to Winnipeg this week, opening tonight at 8 p.m. at the Gas Station Arts Centre. For ticket info, click here.
Michael Lawrenchuk. (Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Winnipeg Pro Wrestling is bringing the ring to the West End Cultural Centre tonight for a live event hosted by the Winterruption music festival, beginning at 7 p.m. Featured personalities include AJ Sanchez, Jody Threat, “Sweet” Bobby Schink, Devon Monroe, Red Hot Summer and Blair Onyx.
The Winnipeg Jets host the Buffalo Sabres at the Canada Life Centre, beginning at 7 p.m. Following a lacklustre five-game road trip, Jets forward Pierre-Luc Dubois says, “It’s disappointing going 2-3 … but there’s still a lot of hockey left to be played and we can play better. We know it.” Jeff Hamilton has the story.
Today’s must-read
A critical shortage of nurses trained in gathering criminal evidence is forcing staff at Health Sciences Centre to send some already-traumatized sex-assault victims home, with instructions not to shower or wipe themselves after using the washroom. Carol Sanders has the story.
Darlene Jackson, president of the Manitoba Nurses Union (centre), Uzoma Asagwara, NDP MLA (left), and Wab Kinew, leader of the Manitoba NDP party, spoke about their concerns for the future of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 26, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that hundreds of people from Canada, including 40 from Winnipeg and other parts of Manitoba, might not make it to England in time for Queen Elizabeth’s corontation after the ocean liner Empress of Canada was destroyed by fire while docked at Liverpool. Another 2,000 refugees crossed into West Berlin from communist-controlled East Germany. Snow and wind hampered the search for a bush pilot who had gone missing 100 miles northeast of Winnipeg near Bissett Lake. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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