What’s happening today
Bill Redekop / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSPolice tape and a smashed vehicle are seen at the site of the auto collision on Osborne Street Friday morning.
Crash closes street: A large stretch of Osborne Street will be shut down for at least part of the morning commute as police investigate a crash that happened several hours ago. The street is closed to northbound traffic at Jubilee Avenue and to southbound traffic at Confusion Corner. We’ll have more on the crash on our website this morning. READ MORE
Fun at The Forks: The Ice Castles extravaganza at The Forks opens to the public at 4 p.m. The interactive attraction, weeks in the making, features ice-carved tunnels, fountains, slides and towers embedded with lights. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Role reversal: The Jets host the Buffalo Sabres at 7 p.m. Mike McIntyre reports on how one of the most feared goal-scorers in the NHL has been dishing out assists since moving to Winnipeg’s top line. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be sunny with a high of -21 C, wind chill of -38 this morning and -30 in the afternoon, and wind up to 15 km/h.
In case you missed it
THE CANADIAN PRESS/HOWindy Sinclair, 29, sits with her four children in an undated photo supplied by her family. Sinclair died after leaving a hospital and her family says she never should have been allowed to leave on her own.
Questions remain after death: Windy Sinclair, whose frozen body was found off Furby Street last week after she left Seven Oaks hospital, was two months pregnant. Sinclair’s mother, Eleanor, learned about the pregnancy when she sat down Thursday with Winnipeg Regional Health Authority representatives, a meeting she said raised more questions than it answered. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Grain gross-out: Twice in the last year, Randy and Barby Neumann opened a package of oatmeal to find it crawling with grain beetles. Noel White, a research scientist with Agri-Food and Agriculture Canada, says he’s had three infestations in his home and now puts grain-based foods in air-tight containers. “There’s nothing worse than pouring milk on your cereal and seeing bugs. They float to the top.” Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Nathan Denette / THE CANADIAN PRESSCanada forward Drake Batherson (19) celebrates after scoring against Czech Republic goaltender Josef Korenar (30) in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday.
Going for gold: Canada faces Sweden in the gold medal game at the world junior hockey championships in Buffalo, N.Y., at 7 p.m. Team Canada beat the Czech Republic 7-2 in one semifinal game Thursday, while Sweden beat the U.S. 4-2 in the other. READ MORE
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Tim Hortons: The coffee shop giant has provoked outrage among consumers after employees at the Tim Hortons locations owned by the children of the co-founders of the franchise revealed they were seeing reductions in their benefits and cuts to paid breaks after Ontario’s provincial government passed legislation to boost the minimum wage. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 5, 1931: The Manitoba Free Press reported that efforts in Britatin to end the South Wales coal dispute, in which 140,000 miners quit work, had failed, opening the new week with a nation in crisis. The princess royal, eldest sister to the king, died in London. In Wausau, Wis., bootleggers forced a nightwatchmen at an airfield to help them steal a plane. READ MORE
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