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Clearing early this morning, with increasing cloudiness late this afternoon. Wind from the north at 30 km/h becoming light this morning. High -18 C, wind chill -35 this morning and -25 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge, a new large-scale exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights that explores a dark chapter in Canada’s recent past, opens today. Jen Zoratti has a preview here.
The exhibition features a digital production of Royal Winnipeg Ballet dancers illustrating the Purge. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation is launching a comprehensive new book detailing the city’s built history and landscapes tonight.
Winnipeg Places + Spaces features contributions by Christian Cassidy, Kaj Hasselriis, Alex Gowriluk, Reanna Merasty and many others, and was edited by Susan Algie, executive director of the foundation.
Algie launches Winnipeg Places + Spaces at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
It remains the great unanswered question lurking over Manitoba’s justice system.
How many wrongful convictions did prosecutor George Dangerfield engineer during his career? It’s a legitimate question, considering no other Crown attorney in Canada has been connected to as many.
Over the course of five decades, Dangerfield was responsible for the wrongful convictions of seven Manitoba men in homicide cases: Thomas Sophonow, James Driskell, Frank Ostrowski, Kyle Unger, Brian Anderson, Allan Woodhouse and Clarence Woodhouse.
An eighth man, Clarence’s brother Russell Woodhouse, died in 2011. He remains convicted of manslaughter but Innocence Canada is seeking a posthumous declaration of his innocence. Dan Lett and Katrina Clarke have the story.
George Dangerfield at the Sophonow inquiry in 2001. (Wayne Glowacki / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A program that treats survivors of sexual assault and gender-based violence has overcome staffing problems and has been able to expand across the province.
After a mass exodus of nurses from the Health Sciences Centre sexual assault nurse examiner program in March 2023, the province rebuilt the program. In January 2024, it spent $1.3 million to expand it to Klinic and Ka Ni Kanichihk in Winnipeg; and later, to rural and northern Manitoba.
Klinic and Ka Ni Kanichihk had previously provided just counselling and advocacy for patients when they attended the HSC program. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Kara Neustaedter oversees Klinic’s “Hummingbird” program. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 31, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a five-cent increase in bus fare to 40 cents and a 4.2 per cent rise in the mill rate could go into effect if council approved recommendations made by the civic board of commissioners to cover a projected $243-million city operating budget. White voters in Rhodesia overwhelmingly approved a new constitution that would bring a form of black-majority rule to the war-torn country. Inmates at Stony Mountain Penitentiary were in favour of prison tours for juveniles to show them life behind bars was not glamorous. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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