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Mainly cloudy. Wind from the north at 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High -7 C, wind chill -22 this morning and -13 this afternoon. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
📖 Winnipeg’s long-running monthly poetry event Speaking Crow returns tonight, with writer and musician Cam Scott joining as the featured reader.
In addition to a book of essays, The Vanishing Signs, Scott has produced two poetry collections, 2019’s Romans/Snowmare and Manor’s Ransom, which was published in 2025 by ARP Books. The event will see Scott and all registered readers share their work at the Saint Boniface Library (131 Provencher Blvd.) starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The father of a 12-year-old boy who died in a house fire in Portage la Prairie held his son’s hand through a broken window while trying to rescue him, a family member told the Free Press.
Alexander Beaulieu Jr. was trapped in his bedroom while flames spread and smoke filled the home early Sunday morning, his maternal uncle, Clint McIvor, said.
A house in the first 100 block of 8th Street Northwest in Portage la Prairie burned early Sunday morning. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
“He was a very special guy and a good kid. Everybody loved him,” McIvor said. “(His parents) are still in shock. They just want to keep to family right now. It’s really hard for them.”
Alexander’s parents and five siblings escaped the house, located in the first 100 block of 8th Street Northwest, when the fire was detected at about 4:40 a.m. Chris Kitching has the story.
On the bright side
A painting that was once rejected as a work by Rembrandt van Rijn has now been acknowledged as a work by the Dutch master, thanks to two years of scrutiny in the city where the then-27-year-old artist painted it in 1633, a museum announced Monday.
The Netherlands’ national art and history museum, the Rijksmuseum, unveiled the work, “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple,” and said painstaking analysis including high-tech scans has confirmed it was painted by Rembrandt after he moved to the capital, Amsterdam.
The painting hasn’t been on public display in decades after being bought by a private collector in 1961, a year after it was deemed not to be a Rembrandt, the museum said in a statement. From Wednesday, will go on show among other masterpieces at the Rijksmusuem, where it is on long-term loan. The Associated Press has more here.
Director Taco Dibbits of the Rijksmuseum unveiled the work “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple” during a press preview in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday. (Peter Dejong / The Associated Press)
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