What’s happening today
Nam Y. Huh / The Associated Press FilesUse of electronic cigarettes, or “vaping,” has been embraced as part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s sensible “harm reduction” approach to nicotine.
Committee considers ban: The city’s protection and community services committee will vote this afternoon on whether to ban smoking and vaping on patios as of April 1. A report from city administrators recommends the ban, which would also have to be passed by the executive policy committee and council as a whole.
Net news: Premier Brian Pallister and provincial Indigenous and Northern Relations Minister Eileen Clarke are making an announcement about high-speed internet funding this morning. It’s scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Millennium Library.
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be relatively balmy, with a high of -1 C, increasing cloudiness and wind from the south at 30 km/h.
In case you missed it
Liquor & Lotteries exec Deanne Carson is commuting to Calgary on weekends. Scott Thomson quit as head of Hydro in 2015 to move back to B.C.
Corporate commuter: The mission statement of Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries mentions “community investment” and “supporting our communities,” but its vice-president of marketing and communications has been travelling back and forth from Calgary since she was hired in April. Deanne Carson says she pays the cost of her travel to visit her family. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Cold crossing: A refugee claimant suffered serious frostbite while crossing into Canada at the Manitoba border near Emerson last week. On Monday, his fingers were too blistered and oozing for Canada Border Services Agency officers to fingerprint him. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESAlex Forrest, president of United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg
Hot topic: United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg president Alex Forrest cannot do his job while the city pays the majority of his salary, Dan Lett says in his latest column. Meanwhile, union members don’t seem to have gained much from Forrest’s bombast and politicking over the years, Lett writes. READ MORE
Roaming to Buffalo: The Jets face the Sabres in Buffalo at 6 p.m. The teams last played at Bell MTS Place on Friday, a game Winnipeg won 4-3. Tonight’s match is the first of a three-game road trip before the Jets take a league-mandated bye week. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
Trending now
Moose: Trending after the Manitoba Moose lost to the Grand Rapids Griffins Monday night, despite battling past an early 2-0 score to net a couple of goals. The Griffins won 3-2. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 9, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the United Nations would make one last appeal to Chinese communists for peace in Korea before taking up a United States demand to brand the Peiping regime an aggressor. Canadian prime minister Louis St. Laurent characterized the great struggle in the world as being between the forces of “the new Communist imperialism” and those of freedom and civilization. READ MORE
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