WINNIPEG – Many rural Manitoba school divisions have cancelled classes Monday due to extreme cold and poor driving conditions.
RCMP report poor driving conditions on the Perimeter Highway due to snow-covered roads, drifting snow, high winds, poor visibility and ice-covered intersections, and advised drivers to reduce their speed.
Classes are cancelled in the following school divisions:
- Pine Creek
- Western
- Evergreen
- Border Land
- Lord Selkirk
- Interlake
- Seine River
- Sunrise
- Fort la Bosse
- Lakeshore
- Prairie Rose
- Hanover
- Red River Valley
- Garden Valley
Classes are also cancelled at Treherne Collegiate, Treherne Elementary and Holland Elementary schools in Prairie Spirit School Division, at Oakville School and Hutterian schools in Portage la Prairie School Division, at Sgt. Tommy Prince School and on the Sagkeeng First Nation.
Schools are open but busses are cancelled in Park West School Division, which has also postponed high school exams. Rural school busses aren’t running in the Brandon and Portage la Prairie school divisions. Buses are not running to rural schools in the division scolaire franco-manitobaine.
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Most of Manitoba is currently under a wind chill warning. Wind chill warnings are in effect for:
- Winnipeg
- Melita, Boissevain, Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
- Killarney, Pilot Mound, Manitou
- Selkirk, Gimli, Stonewall, Woodlands, Eriksdale
- Portage la Prairie, Headingley, Brunkild, Carman
- Dugald, Beausejour, Grand Beach
- Morden, Winkler, Altona, Emerson, Morris
- Steinbach, St. Adolphe, Dominion City, Vita, Richer
- Bissett, Nopiming Provincial Park, Pine Falls
- Whiteshell, Lac Du Bonnet, Pinawa
- Sprague, Northwest Angle Provincial Forest
- Grand Rapids
- Arborg, Hecla, Fisher River, Gypsumville, Ashern
- Dauphin, Roblin, Winnipegosis
- Minnedosa, Neepawa, Russell, Riding Mountain National Park
- Ste. Rose, McCreary, Alonsa, Gladstone
- Swan River, Duck Mountain, Porcupine Provincial Forest
- Poplar River
- Berens River, Little Grand Rapids, Bloodvein, Atikaki
The Trans-Canada Highway reopened between Headingley, Man., just west of Winnipeg, and Portage la Prairie shortly after 7 a.m. Monday. It had been closed Saturday due to the weather.
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