Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of light snow early this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind from the north at 20 km/h becoming light early this morning. Temperature falling to -21 this morning then rising. Wind chill -30 this morning and -25 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
The monthly Speaking Crow open-mic poetry reading, presented by Plume Winnipeg, goes virtual once again for January, taking place tonight at 7 p.m.
Polish up your best three minutes of poetry and take part in the virtual reading, or simply watch as up to 25 participants share their work. Either option requires registration to access the Zoom link.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s four Liberal members of Parliament had mixed emotions after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation Monday, with none ready to publicly declare their support for a potential replacement as party leader.
The group, including Winnipeg South Centre MP Ben Carr, the province’s only government MP to publicly call on Trudeau to step down, hailed the threeterm prime minister as preparations for a leadership contest and a federal election later this year began to ramp up.
“The first thing I was thinking — and that I’m still feeling — is an enormous amount of respect for him and gratitude toward him,” Carr told the Free Press after watching Trudeau’s televised announcement. Chris Kitching has the story.
Liberal Member of parliament Ben Carr with Prime Minister Justin Trudeaul in 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Marin Plank truly had no interest in birds when she gave her husband a camera-equipped bird feeder for his birthday. But by Christmas, she had become so obsessed with birds that most of the gifts she received this year — books, stickers, notecards — were related. “This is who I am now,” she said.
Acquaintances have stopped Plank on the street to discuss the bird photos she shares on Facebook. From copious amounts of research, she now knows the best birdseed blend and has a premium membership to a store that delivers giant bags of it to her Delaware home. The Associated Press has more here.
A cardinal on Judy Ashley’s bird feeder in Ipswich, Mass. (Judy Ashley via The Associated Press)
On this date
Jan. 7, 1936: The “ruins” of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal farm aid program to help farmers through the Great Depression dominated the front page of the Manitoba Free Press after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the program as unconstitutional. Historic floods pummelled France. In Winnipeg, peak influenza season hit, causing widespread absences from schools and workplaces. The paper reported 30 members of the Winnipeg police force, 12 per cent of the department, were off sick, as were 19 firefighters.
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