Your forecast
Mainly sunny skies with a high of 2 C and a low of -5 C.
What’s happening today
A residential parking ban will start at 7 a.m. and end at 7 p.m. Saturday as city crews begin to plow residential streets.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair is scheduled to release a new national climate adaptation strategy in Prince Edward Island.
Today’s must-read
Okoth Obeing had not been taking his bipolar disorder medication when he stabbed Winnipeg taxi driver Balvir Toor to death, but the killing had nothing to do with his mental illness, a judge was told Wednesday. Instead, the fatal attack was sparked by racist attitudes and a “dislike of cab drivers” who showed Obeing “disrespect” according to attorneys. Dean Pritchard has the full story.
Balvir Toor died after he was stabbed to death in his cab as it pulled over on the 500 block of Burrows Avenue. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A tiny village in the heart of the city is nearly ready to open its doors.
A 22-unit cluster of bachelor-style transitional housing spaces named Astum Api Niikinaahk — “come and sit in our home” in Cree and Michif — has been under construction near Thunderbird House on Henry Avenue for years.
Delayed by COVID-19 impacts and rising costs, the finishing touches are underway, with a hopeful opening date of Dec. 1. Malak Abas reports.
Astum Api Niikinaahk is minimal-barrier and rent is geared to income. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 24, 1977: The Winnipeg Free Press reported premier Sterling Lyon proposed veteran Progressive Conservative MLA Harry Graham as Speaker of the legislature. Margaret Trudeau told a New York newspaper six months after her breakup with prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau that she hoped for reconciliation. Rhodesian forces used jets and helicopters to make their “biggest attack yet” on Mozambique.
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