Your forecast
Scattered flurries today with a high of -20 C and a low of -24. Wind chill near -36.
What’s happening today
In Washington, D.C., the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to release its 800-page final report, expected to conclude then-U.S. president Donald Trump criminally plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat and “provoked his supporters to violence.” The Associated Press reports.
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., centre, of the House select committee (Jim Lo Scalzo / Pool / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
Javed Musharraf was warned to be careful riding his bicycle in the winter, but the international student from India had two jobs and few other options. The 22-year-old, who came to Winnipeg from the city of Hyderabad about two years ago, was struck and killed by a city-contracted front-end loader plowing snow in St. Boniface last Thursday while riding home to Balmoral Street and Cumberland Avenue. The young man had no family in Winnipeg, and just an uncle and cousins in Calgary, while the rest of his loved ones are in India. The Community of Indian Muslims in Manitoba sprang into action after learning of the man’s death. Erik Pindera has the story.
Imam Yacine Mamadou led about 100 people in prayer over Musharraf’s wooden casket, telling the mourners to do good deeds. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 22, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported prime minister John Diefenbaker announced the resignation of Sen. Henri Courtmanche, who was accused of forgetting personal responsibilities and taking an “attitude unworthy of an honest citizen” for accepting money from the Jean-Talon Hospital in Montreal. In Hamilton, Bermuda, U.S. president John F. Kennedy and British prime minister Harold Macmillan reached total agreement on the next steps in the Berlin crisis; the two leaders also began discussion on the problem of the Congo, and on conducting nuclear tests in the atmosphere. Search our archives for more here.
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