Your forecast
Mainly sunny. Wind from the west at 20 km/h. High -18 C, wind chill -34 this morning and -28 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
📖 Winnipeg-based author Lindsay Wong will launch of her new novel Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies, a horror-tinged tome exploring the Chinese tradition of corpse brides, at McNally Robisnon’s Grant Park location at 7 p.m. . Wong will be joined by fellow Winnipeg author/University of Winnipeg prof Jenny Heijun Wills. Jen Zoratti has a preview here.
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets face the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
City police have arrested four men and one woman and are searching for two others in connection with a wave of extortion attempts and arsons that primarily targeted core-area businesses, the Free Press has learned.
Those arrested are Cora Renae Penner, 32; James Dean Herda, 33; Jahaid Hossain Maruf, 26; Jerry Marcel Martin, 49; and Lorenzo Lucas, 65. All five face extortion-related charges.
Lucas and Martin, both from Montreal, are also charged with arson with disregard for human life, arson causing damage to property, and theft under $5,000. Penner was released on an undertaking. The other four remain in custody. Scott Billeck has the story.
Logan Convenience went up in flames on Oct. 28, 2025. (Instagram)
On the bright side
Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.
One is a spindly stick about 80 centimetres long that could have been used for digging in the mud. The other is a smaller, more mysterious handheld chunk of willow or poplar wood that may have been used to shape stone tools, according to research published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Associated Press has more here.
Various angles of a 430,000-year-old wooden tool from Greece. (Katerina Harvati, Nicholas Thompson via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Jan. 27, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in the United States, flooding from the Mississippi River affected waterways for 1,800 miles, resulting in 200 deaths, leaving 750,000 homeless and causing an estimated $300 million in damage. Financial affairs of Manitoba and Saskatchewan would be probed by the chief of the research department of the Bank of Canada, who was already in Winnipeg to begin the task, premier John Bracken announced. Search our archives for more here.
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