Your forecast
Snow ending this morning, wind northwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming north 20 this afternoon. Temperature -16 C, falling to -19 this afternoon, with wind chill -23 this morning and -30 this afternoon. Some rural schools have cancelled bus service but schools remain open, including in Prairie Rose School Division and Brandon School Division.
What’s happening today
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a special performance by Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra violinist Sonia Lazar in the Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation at the museum, starting at noon. Admission is free. For more information, click here.
First Violinist Sonia Lazar. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The new Sounds of Manitoba series of concerts kicks off in the Ilavut entrance hall of WAG-Qaumajuq, presented in conjunction with Manitoba Music, beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
Rapper Anthony OKS will perform Friday at the Sounds of Music. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Veteran rocker Kim Mitchell plays the Club Regent Event Centre, starting at 8 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government is distributing cheques totalling $200 million to ease pressure on voters’ wallets in an election year, but critics say the tax dollars would be better spent bringing down costs and strengthening public services. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Premier Heather Stefanson today announced a $200-million ‘carbon tax relief fund’ that aims to help 700,000 Manitobans cope with rising costs, from food to fuel. (Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 27, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the war in Vietnam was formally ended with a peace treaty signed in Paris between the U.S., North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong. Canadian peacekeepers headed to Saigon following word of the treaty’s acceptance. In Kenora, a coroner’s jury recommended Indigenous people in northwest Ontario be tested annually for mercury poisoning, following an inquest into the August death of Thomas Strong of Grassy Narrows. As Parliament began debate on a bill that would retain limited capital punishment, Canada’s solicitor general said the death penalty had no place in a moral society. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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