Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of snow this morning with risk of freezing drizzle. Wind from the south at 20 km/h. High -2 C, wind chill near -11.
What’s happening today
The Exchange District is shining a little brighter these days with the return of Lights on the Exchange-Allumez le Quartier. The winter festival runs now until March 21, featuring all manner of light-based public art in storefront windows and street corners throughout the downtown Winnipeg neighbourhood.
“Last year was about establishing proof of concept,” says Exchange District BIZ executive director David Pensato. “This year is really taking what we’ve learned and starting to grow it further.” Eva Wasney has the story.
Kaine McEwan’s Colonial Cartoons: Nanabush Across Time are on exhibit at 185 Bannatyne Ave. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
They created the tango, perfected the asado (the grilling of meats over an open flame) and marketed Malbec to the masses as their signature wine grape — and now Argentina takes centre stage as the theme region for the Winnipeg Wine Festival, which kicks off at the RBC Convention Centre, 375 York Ave., tonight, 7-10 p.m., and continues on Saturday, 1-4 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. For more information, click here.
Argentina and its Malbec wines will be featured at this weekend’s Winnipeg Wine Festival. (Stever Haggerty / MCT files)
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg restaurant owner is being remembered as a gregarious and generous figure, after he died in an altercation with another man outside his Portage Avenue business Wednesday evening.
City police were awaiting autopsy results to confirm the cause of death for Cork & Flame owner Kyriakos Vogiatzakis and determine whether homicide or other charges are warranted against a suspect who was in custody. Chris Kitching has the story.
The Cork and Flame on Portage Avenue. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 26, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported tensions appeared to be easing between Washington and Moscow as Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev praised U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower in an interview, in contrast to recent anti-Western speeches by Kremlin leaders. Winnipeg mayor George Sharpe asked the department of national of defence to build the Minto Armouries somewhere else, after they were swept by fire a week earlier. The fire department faced criticism for incompetence at a council meeting over its handling of the blaze. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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