What’s happening today
Health care workers run tests on a COVID-19 suspected patient in a resuscitation bay in the adult emergency department at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.
Manitoba’s COVID-19 crisis: Provincial health officials will announce the latest COVID-19 numbers at a news conference this afternoon. Manitoba reported nearly 30 total COVID-19 deaths Wednesday and Thursday, and the fifth consecutive day with new cases in the 200s. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Set to approve second vaccine: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve a second COVID-19 vaccine as early as today. The Moderna vaccine is still awaiting approval in Canada. READ MORE
Iran builds at Fordo facility: In a development that could increase tensions between Washington and Tehran in the waning days of the Trump administration, satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press show Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo. READ MORE
Many counts of attempted murder: A man has been charged with 91 counts of attempted murder for driving his car into a crowd in Germany in February. Twenty people were treated in hospital, but all survived. Frankfurt prosecutors say the man planned the attack and installed a dashboard camera to record it. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: A few flurries ending this morning and then clearing, with high of -2 C, a low of -13 C late this afternoon, wind chill as low as -23, and wind at 40 km/h gusting to 60 and increasing to 70.
In case you missed it
The legal battle over the sale of a Nygard building on Notre Dame Avenue continued Thursday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Delay jeopardizes deal, lawyers say: Lawyers for a court-appointed receiver asked a judge Thursday to allow the sale of Peter Nygard’s Notre Dame Avenue warehouse despite an appeal, arguing further delay could jeopardize the deal. Nygard was arrested Monday on a U.S. extradition warrant to face racketeering and sex-related charges. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Asked and answered: Kevin Rollason has answers to some of the most-frequently asked questions about Manitoba’s pandemic restrictions. READ MORE
Pinned amid pandemic: More than 100 Red River College graduates received their nursing pins Thursday, officially entering the health-care workforce amid the pandemic. Julia-Simone Rutgers reports. READ MORE
Free fish: Volunteers were outside Thursday giving away frozen fish that couldn’t be sold overseas because of the pandemic. Cody Sellar reports. READ MORE
Climate change Q&A: Reporter Sarah Lawrynuik spoke with federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson about Ottawa’s strategy to achieve its international emissions reduction commitments. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 18, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in Paris, the heads of NATO member countries agreed in principle on arming Western Europe with rockets and to establish a scientific committee; in return, the United States agreed under pressure to sound out the Russians on a cold war truce. A New York Herald Tribune column by Art Buchwald, in which an imaginary press conference ostensibly held by White House press secretary James Hagerty on the subject of NATO was described, drew fire from the real James Hagerty; both the column and coverage of Hagerty’s reaction appeared on the front page of the Free Press. Meanwhile, the U.S. was said to be within two years of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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