Your forecast
Cloudy, but clearing this morning, with wind becoming southwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40. Expected high is 4 C, wind chill -11 this morning.
What’s happening today
Cirque Musica Holiday Wonderland brings festive entertainment to the Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith St., tonight at 7:30 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Cirque Musica Holiday Wonderland (Supplied)
Grey Cup weekend
On Sunday at 5 p.m., the Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the Montreal Alouettes in the 110th edition of the Grey Cup, the first time in the league’s 65-year history that these two clubs will face off for a league title. Reporting from Hamilton, Ont., Jeff Hamilton writes on the excitement of Grey Cup week, and Taylor Allen talks to Winnipeg’s American players on embracing Grey Cup glory. Read more of our Bombers coverage here.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Brady Oliveira with his award for Most Outstanding Canadian at the 2023 Canadian Football League Awards in Niagara Falls, Ont., Thursday. (ara Walton / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
Patients in various levels of distress are parked on stretchers that line the hallways. Someone is moaning. The newest arrival, lying on her side, calls out. “Somebody … please help me.”
There are no call buttons for the people in the corridors. It wouldn’t matter if there were — the staff on shift are too overwhelmed to respond. Carol Sanders reports on conditions the Grace Hospital’s emergency department.
(Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A lantern made of straw will be a beacon for winter revellers In Selkirk this weekend. The latest addition to Holiday Alley, this city’s four-day celebration of art, sound, light, creativity and culture, will be a six-metre sculpture created from flax straw, fallen tree branches and wire erected on Manitoba Avenue.
Lithuanian artist Vytautus Musteikis has teamed up with Chris Pancoe of Winnipeg’s Anvil Tree, an art design and fabrication company, to build the giant lantern. Alan Small reports.
Vytautas Musteikis (front) and Chris Pancoe’s six-metre-high sculpture is made of flax straw, tree branches and wire. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Nov.17, 1966: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, the federal Conservative party began a search for a new leader, but current leader John Diefenbaker vowed to pursue the position in the upcoming leadership contest, which would be held no later than Januray 1968. In Manitoba, it was feared the province would have to shoulder the entire cost of a multimillion-dollar rehabilitation of the education system without federal aid. In Winnipeg, heavy snow-removal equipment would hit the streets for the first time in the season after a storm hit southern Manitoba. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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