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Privacy breaches: A Grace Hospital employee was fired for snooping into the personal health information of five Winnipeg Jets players in 2015, but the WRHA didn’t tell the public about it. Hospitals and health authorities aren’t required to keep statistics on such breaches, Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Under new management: The owners of Gunn’s Bakery are stepping back from the day-to-day operations of the kosher business that’s been in their family since 1937. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be cloudy with light snow ending this morning, a high of – 9 C, wind chill as low as -22 and a risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Deadly crash in Denmark: Six people are dead and 16 are injured after a passenger train apparently hit falling cargo from a passing freight train on a bridge in Denmark. The road-and-rail bridge links the islands of Zealand and Funen. READ MORE
Taiwan tension: Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, rejected Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for unification under a one-country, two-system framework. ”China must face the fact of the existence of Taiwan,” she said today. Taiwan split from China in the civil war that brought communists to power in 1949.
Border briefing: In Washington, congressional leaders from both parties are expected to attend a White House briefing on border security this afternoon. The meeting, amid a partial shutdown of the U.S. government, is happening one day before Democrats take control of the House of Representatives.
Facing Flames outdoors: The Jets will “host” the Calgary Flames in an outdoor game at Regina’s stadium in October. Jets head coach Paul Maurice said it’s important the NHL embraces markets that don’t have teams. Jeff Hamilton reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 2, 1981: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that former mayoral candidate Al Golden helped make his fourth arrest within a year, when he came upon three men stealing out of his home at 2 a.m.; Golden pursued and restrained one of the men and called police. Media sage Marshall McLuhan’s death prompted new examination of his work. In Winnipeg, the jobs outlook was bleak, as several major employers planned to cut back on staff. A poll found that the vast majority of people in Western Canada did not want the region to separate from the country.
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