Good morning!
Your forecast: It’s never a good thing when you freeze your tail heading out in the morning to start your day, only to learn that’s actually the mildest the outside will feel today. The temperature at 6 a.m. was a crisp -16 C, however, the mercury will fall to -21 C by mid-morning and then climb later in the day to just -19 C. Oh ya, the breeze from the north will make it feel like -32. There’s a 60 per cent chance of flurries overnight, with snow ending by noon Wednesday. The daytime high on Wednesday is -14 C with a steady southeast wind, making it feel like -29.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESGrand Chief Derek Nepinak says he’s filing a complaint with CATSA after an officer at the Ottawa International Airport unwrapped and handled a sacred pipe bundle.
Sacred pipe bundle disrespected: Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak is filing a complaint with the agency that provides security at airports in Canada after sacred items in his pipe bundle were unwrapped, handled and even dropped by screening officers at Ottawa’s airport. READ MORE
Homicide trial: Elizabeth Lafantaisie, 73, was attacked by a stranger, raped and strangled and then stuffed in the trunk of her own stolen car in February 2011. Thomas Brine, 29, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in a trial that began Monday and could last two weeks. READ MORE
Discussion about MMIW inquiry: About 170 people — advocates, family members and aboriginal leaders — met in Winnipeg on Monday with Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett to discuss what a national inquiry into missing and murdered women should look like. READ MORE
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Tim Smith / Brandon Sun FilesFormer MP Joy Smith
Combatting human trafficking: Former Winnipeg MP Joy Smith continues her work as one of the country’s leading anti-human trafficking activists. Smith hosts an event today at 11 a.m. at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre at 445 King St. Speakers include RCMP Assistant Commissioner Kevin Brosseau, Winnipeg Police Service Chief Devon Clunis, Norway House Chief Ron Evans, Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh and Diane Redsky of Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre.
Feeling the Blues: Fresh off a much-needed 4-2 victory Saturday in Denver against the Colorado Avalanche, the Winnipeg Jets are in St. Louis tonight to take on the Blues. Winnipeg (23-26-1-2) has already lost three times this season to St. Louis (30-17-5-3). Electrifying winger Vladimir Tarasenko leads the Blues with 26 goals, fifth-most in the NHL. The Jets will be missing their top goal scorer, right winger Drew Stafford, who will serve a one-game suspension for high-sticking Colorado blueliner Nick Holden.
Parking ban: Plowing of residential streets will begin Wednesday morning, so that means the city will roll out a Residential Parking Ban beginning at 7 a.m. that morning. Residents of snow zones E, I, M, O, S and U will need to move their vehicles, as plowing will be underway in those zones until 7 p.m. Wednesday. You can find your snow zone at knowyourzone.winnipeg.ca or by contacting 311 (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone at 311, or by email at 311@winnipeg.ca). READ MORE
Around the water cooler
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSDustin Byfuglien has signed a five-year contract extension with an average annual value of $7.6 million.
Big Buff’s back: The Winnipeg Jets announced Monday that defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, 30, has signed to a five-year contract extension with an average annual value of $7.6 million. Now all the attention turns to team captain Andrew Ladd, who becomes an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season. READ MORE
RCMP collecting DNA: One expert called it “an ethically questionable procedure” but male residents of Garden Hill First Nation are allowing RCMP to collect DNA samples from them, in hopes of solving the slaying of 11-year-old Teresa Robinson whose remains were found in the bush last May. READ MORE
Alleged bomber wants outside judge: Martin Glazer, the lawyer representing Guido Amsel, made a unique motion Monday, seeking to have an out-of-province judge brought in to hear a bail review surrounding his high-profile client. READ MORE
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Matthew Mead / The Associated Press FilesMmmmm…. pancakes
#PancakeDay: Pass the syrup, it’s Pancake Day, or, if you prefer Shrove Tuesday.
Donaldson: Blue Jays fans will be ecstatic this morning. Reports out of Toronto say the major league baseball club has avoided arbitration with third baseman Josh Donaldson and signed the American League’s most valuable player to a new two-year, $29-million contract.
On this date
On Feb. 9, 1942: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that battle between British and Japanese forces raged on Singapore Island. Attacks in Tangier were seen as an attempt to draw Spain into the the world war on the side of the Axis powers. British forces stopped an Axis advance in Libya. In Winnipeg, early-morning risers struggled with getting up in the dark under the new regimen of “War-time,” namely moving their clocks ahead one hour as of Sunday night. “A few confused individuals, regardless of warnings and explicit instructions on what to do with their clocks, put them one hour back on Sunday night and had the embarrassing experience of trying to sneak into work exactly two hours late.”
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