Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with increasing cloudiness late this afternoon and fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h near noon. High -15 C, wind chill -32 this morning and -21 this afternoon, with a risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Opening tonight at 7 p.m. is AlterIndiens, the French adaptation of Ojibway humorist Drew Hayden Taylor’s culture-clash-at-dinner comedy at Théâtre Cercle Molière, with French and English subtitles. Ben Waldman has a preview here. For ticket info, click here.
Yvonne (Lesly Velásquez) is a surprise guest at the party in AlterIndiens. (Marie-Andree Lemire photo)
The Winnipeg Jets host the Columbus Blue Jackets at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Vowing to put safety first, the Manitoba government announced it will spend $12 million to redesign a dangerous highway intersection, the site of a devastating crash between a mini-bus and tractor-trailer last June that claimed the lives of 17 seniors.
Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor confirmed the commitment in an interview with the Free Press over the weekend, prior to the public release of a third-party report that revealed a series of safety concerns with the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5, just north of Carberry.
“The intersection can be made safer and that’s what we aim to do,” Naylor said. Katrina Clarke has the story.
The scene of a fiery collision between a bus and semi-trailer that left 15 seniors dead and 10 seriously injured on the Trans-Canada Highway north of Carberry in June. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
The first person to spot it was a shovel operator working the overnight shift at the Freedom Mine near Beulah, N.D., eyeing a glint of white as he scooped up a giant mound of dirt and dropped it into a dump truck.
Later, after the truck driver dumped the load, a dozer driver was ready to flatten the dirt but stopped for a closer look when he, too, spotted that bit of white.
Only then did the miners realize they had unearthed something special: a seven-foot-long mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of years. The Associated Press has the story.
North Dakota Geologic Survey Paleontologist Jeff Person sits behind a 7-foot mammoth tusk in December at the Geologic Survey office in Bismarck, N.D. (Jack Dura / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 9, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Washington, D.C., the Republican National Committee asserted that Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt’s financial program, if carried out, would force the administration to resort to “uncontrolled” inflation. In St. Boniface, a driver was charged with “unlawful killing” in the death of a nine-year-old boy following a collision. The Winnipeg city council committee on housing ordered the health department to survey three well-known congested spaces to ascertain instances of overcrowding and of families living in attics, cellars and stores. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
