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Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries and risk of freezing drizzle this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind from the west at 20 km/h, becoming light this afternoon. High -6, wind chill -19 this morning and -10 this afternoon.
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What’s happening today
Tonight at 7 p.m., We We Kai Nation author and former MP Jody Wilson-Raybould will be at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location discussing her latest book Reconciling History: A Story of Canada. Wilson-Raybould will be joined in conversation by Winnipeg-based former CBC Radio host Shelagh Rogers.
Today’s must-read
A five-year, $62-million funding plan for municipalities announced Monday has left some in rural leadership frustrated.
The funds will be provided by creating the One Manitoba Growth Revenue Fund, Premier Wab Kinew announced Monday at the annual fall convention of the Association of Manitoba Municipalities.
About $12.4 million in additional revenue handed out yearly across Manitoba on a per-capita basis means some rural municipalities, such as Portage la Prairie, are left with a disappointingly small piece of the pie, said Garth Asham, a councillor for the RM.
“I don’t think it’s good enough, I don’t think it’s going to do the trick,” he said from the RBC Convention Centre. Malak Abas has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew (right) chats with Coun. Grant Jardine, of the RM of North Cypress-Langford. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 26, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Toronto, in the first quarter of the Grey Cup final, the Montreal Alouettes led the Calgary Stampeders 11-0; a large crowd of Winnipeg football fans were on hand to cheer on Manitoba players in the big game. In Winnipeg, deep snow ruts and covered streetcar tracks snarled traffic on Portage Avenue after five inches of snow hit the city. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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