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Mainly sunny with a high of -10 C, wind chill as low as -25 this morning. Low of -14 today.
What’s happening today
The NHL will announce the 32 All-Star Game participants on ESPN during tonight’s Washington Capitals/Columbus Blue Jackets game. The fan vote goes live at 8 p.m. CT. For more information, click here.
Today’s must-read
Chip and Pepper Foster, known for their 1990s NBC cartoon series and popular tie-dye clothing line from the same era, have decided to buy the Winnipeg bakery KUB bread, which announced in November it would close after 99 years. Gabrielle Piché has the story.
Pepper (left) and Chip Foster, new owners of KUB Bakery, at a press conference announcing the sale of the bread bakery. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 5, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported U.S. president Harry Truman said his country had no intention of getting involved in the Chinese civil war or sending military aid to the Chinese Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-Shek on Formosa, but would continue to provide economic aid to the island. In Washington, the U.S. foreign aid administration moved to cut nearly $1 billion in funding from the third year of the Marshall European Recovery program, warning nations receiving the funding it could be cut further if trade barriers were not reduced. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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