Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, clearing this afternoon. Wind becoming south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High 4 C, wind chill -14 this morning. UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
📖 Margaret Sweatman’s new eco-thriller Night Birds — the author of Fox, The Gunsmith’s Daughter and others launches her seventh novel, published by Goose Lane Editions, tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, where she’ll be joined in conversation with Charlene Diehl. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
Margaret Sweatman (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets face the Boston Bruins at TD Garden, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
An American who was arrested at the Emerson port of entry last February after he helped a Pakistani man illegally walk into Manitoba has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years behind bars.
The 33-year-old New Yorker, Sahil Aziz, pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as well as a smuggling charge under the Customs Act, in front of provincial court Judge Kusham Sharma.
The Pakistani man evaded police after successfully walking into Manitoba. He wasn’t caught until months later in Alberta.
Aziz’s defence lawyer, Jesse Blackman, told court the incident wasn’t a well-planned out smuggling operation, but rather, an unsophisticated attempt to help. Erik Pindera has the story.
Sahil Aziz, who was arrested at the Emerson port of entry last February after he helped a Pakistani man illegally walk into Manitoba, has been sentenced to two and a half years behind bars. (John Woods / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A Canadian computer scientist is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious award nicknamed the Nobel Prize of computing.
Université de Montréal professor Gilles Brassard has won the A.M. Turing Prize with IBM Research scientist Charles H. Bennett.
The men nabbed the award because they created impenetrable encryption technology in the mid-1980s that laid the foundations for modern quantum science and secure communication. The Canadian Press has more here.
University of Montreal professor Gilles Brassard (Hatim Kaghat photo)
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