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Cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of light snow this morning. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50, becoming west 20 gusting to 40 near noon. High 2 C, wind chill -24 this morning.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Dallas Stars at the Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Candace House, the Kennedy Street landing pad for families of homicide victims participating in the criminal court process, is marking its fifth anniversary this week.
When it opened in November 2018, in a former commercial space less than a block away from Winnipeg’s downtown provincial courthouse, it relied on donors to get off the ground. Now that the physical space and social services at Candace House have expanded — running with the vision of Cliff and Wilma Derksen to create a safe space they didn’t have when their daughter was murdered nearly 40 years ago — the facility still relies on donations to keep running. Katie May has the story.
Candace House executive director Cecily Hildebrand. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A critically endangered Sumatran rhino was born in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the second Sumatran rhino born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that currently numbers fewer than 50 animals.
A female named Delilah gave birth to a 25-kilogram (55-pound) male calf at a sanctuary for Sumatran rhinos in Way Kambas National Park in Lampung province, at the southern tip of Sumatra island. The Associated Press reports.
A newly born Sumatran rhino calf walks in its enclosure at Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia. (Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Nov. 28, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that thanks to the transfer of Ald. Honeyman’s second choices in Winnipeg’s civic election, mayor John Queen was returned to power with a majority of 3,258 votes over rival Travers Sweatman. British economist and former advisor to the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir George Paish, was set to address the Canadian Club at the Hotel Fort Garry on the subject “Whither Britain?” and sounded dire warnings on the potential shutdown of world trade because of protectionist policies. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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