Your forecast
Periods of drizzle ending this morning, then cloudy, and a risk of freezing drizzle early this morning. A fog advisory is in effect, with near zero visibility at times this morning. High 2 C.
What’s happening today
Feist, whose 2023 record Multitudes earned a spot on the Polaris Music Prize’s shortlist last year, begins a leg of 10 concerts in Canada and the United States at the Burton Cummings Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Feist (Chris Young / The Canadian Press files)
Heritage Winnipeg is kicking off Winnipeg’s 150th anniversary year with the release of a book that details the city’s rich history through words and artwork.
The non-profit charitable organization, which works to promote the preservation and restoration of Winnipeg’s built landscape, launches its latest book, Winnipeg 150: Stories our Buildings Tell, tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson.
Winnipeg 150: Stories our Buildings Tell (Supplied)
The Winnipeg Jets face the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The parents of a one-year-old Winnipeg girl have been charged with manslaughter in her “inexcusable” death, after she ingested fentanyl and they allegedly waited hours before calling for help.
Police said Hanna Boulette ingested a large amount and died from high levels of fentanyl poisoning. Her mother, Sabrina Faye Boulette, 37, and father, Garry Daniel Adrian Bruce, 38, are now charged with manslaughter, following a yearlong investigation.
“It’s heartbreaking when we see these instances,” Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Claude Chancy said Monday. Chris Kitching has the story.
Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Claude Chancy (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Post-tropical storm Fiona has revealed traces of a time before dinosaurs, preserved in the rock and sandstone of Prince Edward Island and exposed in the tempest’s wake.
The fossils uncovered by Fiona are from the Permian period — between 300 million and 250 million years ago — and about 70 million years before dinosaurs walked the Earth. The Canadian Press reports.
The fossil of an extinct “seed fern,” found on the west coast of Prince Edward Island in the summer of 2023. (THandout / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Feb. 6, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Lake Success, N.Y., a British report that said trained Arab fighters were invading Palestine added strength to a drive to create an international army for the area; the UN Palestine commission argued only an international force could enforce the planned partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Canadian Barbara Ann Scott won the women’s figure-skating championship in the fifth Winter Olympics, a first for Canada. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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