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Costly care: Reporter Randy Turner visited Sprague, about 175 kilometers southwest of Winnipeg, to talk to residents who have been billed tens of thousands of dollars for hospital visits. They’ve fallen through the cracks of a unique arrangement allowing them to receive medical care at clinics just across the U.S. border, services that they thought would be covered by Manitoba Health, until they got five-figure bills from the American clinics. READ MORE
Your forecast: With the Great January Meltdown now just a memory to recount to future generations for their edification and enthrallment, it’s back to Manitoba winter as usual. Today’s high will be -8 C, with a 30 per cent chance of flurries. The sun is expected to make a rare appearance on Friday, with a high of – 6.
In case you missed it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes questions at a town hall meeting in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Trudeau’s a class act: École Robert H. Smith will welcome a famous guest today. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has added to his agenda a 25-minute visit before his town hall at the Caboto Centre at 3:30 p.m. READ MORE
Will police apologize?: An accused child sex offender has walked free after Winnipeg police somehow mishandled his file for more than eight years — a delay a judge calls unacceptable and a breach of the man’s Charter rights. Columnist Jen Zoratti asked Winnipeg police whether they will now apologize to the victim who went with trust to the police after she was allegedly sexually assaulted for six years by her mother’s partner. READ MORE
Up next
Human rights museum: One of Winnipeg’s most fascinating spaces, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, holds its annual public meeting today at 2:30 p.m. Topics include key accomplishments from the past year, a look ahead to the new year and Canada’s 150th anniversary.
Munch to music: For a lunch date today that is daringly different, pack a sandwich and head to the Carol Shields Auditorium at the Millennium Library for a performance of “The Romantic Cello” with WSO cellist Sean Taubner and pianist Bennett Charter. The performance goes from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m.
Around the water cooler
Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press FILESWinnipeg Jets co-owner Mark Chipman
Wiecek versus the Jets: Sports columnist Paul Wiecek is forthright: “The Winnipeg Jets don’t do accountability — and it starts right at the top. When was the last time Mark Chipman did a sit-down interview with a media outlet in this town that wasn’t paying him for the privilege? And the general manager? Please. Unless you’re a friendly rights-holder or one of those media sycophants in Toronto who make their living stroking NHL general managers, Chevy is unavailable.” READ MORE
RIP Mary Tyler Moore: Free Press television critic Brad Oswald on Tuesday’s passing of the TV icon: “Moore contributed a tremendous amount to this TV-watching lifetime of mine, but if there’s one thing I will remember most, it’s simply the joy that watching her shows brought to my family and me. She was very likable, very talented and very, very good at TV comedy. She really could turn the world on with her smile.” READ MORE
Trending now
#DrunkBands: Nothing to do with the musicians themselves, just what groups’ names might sound like after they’ve had a few: “Take Alicia’s Keys,” “3 Coors Down,” “Bachman-Turner Shouldn’t Drive,” and “The Guess Hooch,” to name a few.
On this date
On Jan. 26, 1970: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Britain would not write off Canada as being no longer vitally concerned with British and European affairs; this was in response to a perception that Canada was becoming more isolationist under prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Reports showed it cost the United States $19.4 billion to land a man on the moon. In London, hippies burst into a gallery exhibiting erotic prints by Beatle John Lennon and declared his work to be rubbish. READ MORE
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