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A mix of sun and cloud, with a 60 per cent chance of flurries or rain showers this afternoon. Wind from the west at 40 km/h gusting to 60. High 2 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
The Free Press Book Club reconvenes virtually tonight at 7 p.m., welcoming Vancouver Island-based author Maia Caron to read from and discuss her latest novel The Last Secret.
The novel weaves together the story of two women whose paths cross in a Vancouver in 1959 — one a wartime medic in Ukraine and the other an artist who has suffered physical and emotional trauma as a result of an accident at her wedding years earlier.
Caron will be joined by author and Free Press copy editor Ariel Gordon, Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers and Free Press audience engagement manager Erin Lebar. Copies of The Last Secret are available at McNally Robinson.
For more information and to join the book club (for free), click here.
Maia Caron (Shasta Zichmanis photo)
Today’s must-read
The fate of the man accused of slaying a Winnipeg grandfather, and hiding his body in deep bush south of the city, will hinge on the testimony of a woman who stole the victim’s debit card.
Aaron Mousseau Abigosis, 43, was arrested in August 2022 and charged with first-degree murder for the Aug. 3, 2020 death of Bud Paul, after a lengthy RCMP probe that involved the help of other police agencies.
Janine Atkinson, who the Crown alleges was present with Mousseau Abigosis when 56-year-old Paul died, has been granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, which is scheduled for next week. Erik Pindera has the story.
On the bright side
The province’s veterinarians can no longer dock dog tails after the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association voted overwhelmingly to sever the practice many call antiquated and inhumane.
The association voted 125-17 in favour of the ban at their annual general meeting on Friday.
“One of the takeaways from this vote is that Manitoba’s veterinary community, overall, do not enjoy surgically amputating the tail of neo-natal puppies,” said Brittany Semeniuk, a veterinary technologist at Grant Park Animal Hospital. Scott Billeck reports.
Cosmetic alterations like tail docking for some breeds such as Rottweilers is still recognized as an acceptable practice by the American Kennel Club. (Ted Brellisford / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 28, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in New York that Sam Carr, alleged contact man for a Russian nuclear-technology spy ring in Canada and a hunted man for three years, was being held on Ellis Island, awaiting deportation to Canada. Winnipeg teachers won their fight to have a $15-a-month increase in the cost-of-living bonus to all school board employees included in the board’s 1949 budget. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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