What’s happening today
Fighting fare hike: A rally in support of Winnipeg Transit is scheduled for today despite city council abandoning a proposal to reduce service. The city is, however, proceeding with a 25-cent fare hike. The rally is slated for noon at city hall, where council will vote Tuesday on its 2018 budget.
Ministers meet: Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his provincial counterparts will meet today for a discussion on everything from pension reform to equalization payments. Cameron Friesen says Manitoba is pushing for the province to receive all excise tax revenues from legalized marijuana. Dylan Roberston reports. READ MORE
Nominees named: Nominations for the 75 annual Golden Globe Awards are being announced this morning in Beverly Hills by actors Kristen Bell, Garrett Hedlund, Sharon Stone and Alfre Woodard. The Golden Globes, which honour film and television, will be the first major Hollywoods awards show since the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal erupted. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today’s forecast is cloudy with a high of -10 C, a 30 per cent chance of flurries early this morning, clearing this afternoon, and wind from the north at 40 km/h gusting to 60.
In case you missed it
ADRIAN WYLD / THE CANADIAN PRESSTeam McEwen skip Mike McEwen reacts to a missed shot during sixth end of men’s final at the 2017 Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic Curling Trials action against the Team Koe in Ottawa on Sunday, December 10, 2017.
Hard-luck heartbreak: Mike McEwen was near-perfect in the Roar of the Rings final, but it wasn’t enough. McEwen, who has lost major finals before, says he’s glad it wasn’t a blown opportunity. “Played my heart out, did everything I could. We win and die as a team, and we just didn’t quite generate enough opportunities.” Paul Wiecek reports. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
CHRIS O’MEARA / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSTampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov (86) bats the puck away from Winnipeg Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey (44) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017, in Tampa, Fla.
Correcting course: The Jets host the Vancouver Canuck at Bell MTS Place at 7 p.m. after a three-game road trip in which they earned only one point. Tonight’s game is the team’s 15th in 28 days. Mike McIntyre and Jason Bell report. READ MORE
Labour pains: In a speech Thursday, Premier Brian Pallister made reference to a “new public service transformation strategy.” In his latest column, Dan Lett says Pallister is going to have to develop some sort of rapport with government staff amid wage and hiring freezes. READ MORE
Trending
#MBMoose: The Manitoba Moose beat the Milwaukee Admirals 6-1 Sunday. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 11, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported that two surviving members of a party of adventurers missing in northern British Columbia since Oct. 11 had been found in the final stages of exhaustion and starvation; a First World War pilot leading them who had also been missing, rescuers learned, had died on Nov. 20. In Manitoba, a seven-month-old baby would spend three months in jail because the baby’s mother had broken provisions of the province’s Liquor Control Act. In London, details of a vast plot by Russians to overthrow their leader Josef Stalin were revealed READ MORE
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