What you need to know
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman during the end of year interview with reporter Aldo Santin.
Building bridges: Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman says in a year-end interview that challenges remain for the city, including designing and building Transit, recreation and leisure centres, and even bridges, but Bowman says city hall has only limited financial resources to deal with competing priorities. What’s needed is a new funding arrangement with the province. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Happy New Year!: Whether you’re heading out to ring in 2019, or need to get one last thing from the store before settling in, here’s your guide to what’s open and when during the holiday. READ MORE
Weather
Baby, it’s cold outside: No, really. It’s really cold. Environment Canada has issued an extreme weather warning for much of Manitoba. This morning the high is expected to only reach -24 C, with windchill between -30 and -40. Bundle up!
In case you missed it
Merrick Morton / Twentieth Century FoxViola Davis (left) and Cynthia Erivo in the heist film Widows.
Selections from the silver screen: Randall King, Alison Gillmor and Jill Wilson highlight their top picks for movies in 2018 — and dish on some of the worst films of the year, as well. READ MORE
Stolen items returned: Thousands of dollars of equipment and irreplaceable data were stolen from Art City, on Broadway, during a Boxing Day break-in — the stolen digital archives included two decades’ worth of irreplaceable photographs and art projects. However, on Saturday Art City got a call from someone who said they would return the archives if a cash reward was offered. Ryan Thorpe has the story. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
John Woods / The Canadian PressWinnipeg Jets’ Dustin Byfuglien (33) is assisted off the ice by Blake Wheeler (26) and Mark Scheifele (55) as Minnesota Wild’s Mikko Koivu (9) looks on during third-period NHL action in Winnipeg on Saturday.
Buff out: Winnipeg Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien was injured with an apparent left ankle or leg injury in the third period of Saturday’s 3-1 loss to Minnesota, and though Head Coach Paul Maurice wouldn’t elaborate on the exact injury, it looks as though Byfuglien will be out for four weeks. Mike McIntyre has the story. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 31, 1971: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Pakistan’s new president was willing to talk with leaders of India, which had defeated his country’s armed forces in a war over Bangladesh. Prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his wife celebrated the birth of their child Justin Pierre over the Christmas season; Margaret Trudeau posed with her newborn baby for a photo published on Dec. 31. READ MORE
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