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Periods of snow, with risk of freezing rain early this morning. Snowfall amount 2 cm. Wind from the north at 20 km/h. Temperature falling to -5 this afternoon. Wind chill -7 this morning and -12 this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
📖 Tracey Lindberg, a citizen of As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree who hails from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation community in B.C., launches her latest book The Cree Word for Love: Sâkihitowin at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m. The book is a collaborative effort with Plains Cree artist George Littlechild. Lindberg will be joined by former CBC host Shelagh Rogers for the launch.
Today’s must-read
The main contractor for the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters project said he can’t pin down his company’s exact costs to complete the work, amid allegations it might have been paid tens of millions of dollars extra.
Caspian Projects owner Armik Babakhanians testified for a second straight day at a public inquiry into the project Tuesday. He also appeared as a witness in February.
Caspian Projects owner Armik Babakhanians (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
Heather Leonoff, the legal counsel for the provincial inquiry, asked Babakhanians multiple times to provide his best estimate of what Caspian paid to cover its entire cost, including payments to subcontractors, its own staff and all equipment.
While Babakhanians initially estimated that figure to be between $117 million and $120 million, he described that as merely a guess, noting many of his documents were seized during an RCMP investigation. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
On the bright side
More than a century after he was killed by an enemy shell during the First World War in France, the remains of Roblin-area farmer Albert (Bert) Henry Detmold have been identified.
The 33-year-old private, who served with the 107th Overseas Battalion, was killed while digging a trench on the first day of the Battle of Hill 70 on Aug. 15, 1917.
Pte. Albert Henry Detmold (Supplied)
It wasn’t until August 2020 that a construction crew, doing excavation of a site intended for a new hospital, discovered his remains.
Alexandra McKinnon, a historian with the casualty identification program, said Detmold’s relatives on his brothers’ side, didn’t know about his existence, let alone that he had been missing in action during the war.
“It was complete news to them,” McKinnon said on Tuesday. Kevin Rollason has more here.
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