Your forecast
Light snow ending this morning then mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries. Risk of freezing drizzle early this morning. Wind becoming northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High -2 with temperature falling to -6 this afternoon. Wind chill -8 this morning and -13 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Craft in Miniature: A MCC Members’ Exhibition opens today at C2 Centre for Craft, 329 Cumberland Ave., with a reception from 6-9 p.m. For this exhibition, the Manitoba Craft Council challenged its membership — which includes professional artists, artisans and DIY-ers — to use any technique or medium to create works that could not be more than six inches in any dimension. The result: a small-scale showcase of the huge talent that exists within the MCC. For more information, visit the MCC website.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara has ordered a critical incident investigation after a middle-aged man died in Health Sciences Centre’s emergency department waiting room Tuesday morning, eight hours after arriving by ambulance.
Any necessary improvements will be made to prevent similar deaths, Asagwara vowed, while patient-safety advocates questioned whether lessons from past ER deaths, including that of Brian Sinclair, were learned.
“I want to reassure Manitobans this is being treated with the highest level of urgency, highest level of seriousness, and we’re working very hard and very quickly to make sure that we can learn and take the appropriate action moving forward,” Asagwara told reporters Wednesday.
The minister asked that a preliminary report and assessment be provided to them within a couple of weeks. Chris Kitching has the story.
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
When Winnipegger Paul Hiebert found himself sitting across from former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on a bus in Chicago more than 30 years ago, both on their way to a baseball game after a few hard days of work with Habitat for Humanity, he knew he had to ask.
“I just hemmed and hawed and said, ‘Hey, would you ever consider coming to Winnipeg in Canada and building a house?’” Hiebert, now 74, told the Free Press this week. “And he said, ‘Well, if you take me fishing.’”
Carter kept his word and made it to Winnipeg — twice. Hiebert, a designer and builder by trade and a Mennonite by faith, was one of the people who got him here, took him fishing and kept in touch for more than 30 years after. Malak Abas has the story.
Paul Hiebert looks through photos of him with Jimmy Carter more than 40 years ago. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 9, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in the U.S., president Dwight Eisenhower asked Congress to vote for a “soil bank” plan to use up a towering surplus of farm products as part of a nine-point plan to ease the plight of U.S. farmers. In London, Ont., police serached for the culprit behind an assault on a five-year-old girl who was then abandoned in below-freezing temperatures to die of exposure. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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