WINNIPEG, MB

After temperatures soared into the single digits below zero, (Okay, Americans, I mean just below zero Celsius), North Kildonan resident Peter Wiens decided to strip to his undies and take a nice swim in the Red River.

“What is this – Calgary?” exclaimed Wiens, who had visited the Alberta city one winter on a ski trip and found the temperatures too balmy to take to the slopes. “It’s like we’re having a chinook or something.”

Wiens instantly posted the photo to a wide variety of social media feeds where he gloated to his Alberta relatives about the unseasonable Manitoba warmth.

“Ha, ha, suckers!” said Wiens. “Have fun with your with high rent and mediocre hockey teams!”

Wiens says all his relatives moved to Alberta in the 1980s just so they could experience a chinook every

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