Your forecast
Periods of light snow, with wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. Temperature falling to -8 C this afternoon, wind chill near -17.
Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began. The Canadian Press has more here.
A Toronto shopper studies metric packaging on pet food in Toronto in 1976. Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. (The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Colorado Avalanche at the Ball Arena, starting at 7 p.m. Ken Wiebe has the story on the Jets’ 3-0 shutout over the Nashville Predators on Monday and will be covering tonight’s game in Denver. To get the inside scoop on the Jets every game day, you can subscribe to our Warm-Up newsletter.
Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) celebrates his shutout against the Nashville Predators with Neal Pionk (4) on Monday. (Fred Greenslade / The Canadian Press)
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, a moment for celebration and, for many, reflection as we head into 2025. Today’s editorial offers this advice: “The best, the absolute best you can do is to make this place a better place for someone else, even if it’s someone you don’t know and never will. The best you can do is to give something back. The best you can do is to hold your tongue when the finest of hurtful ripostes so dearly wants to spring forth and wound. The best you can do is to look up, instead of down.” Read the full story here.
Shrugging Doctor Beverage Company is offering wine flights on New Year’s Eve. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
And for a roundup of special events celebrating the New Year, see What’s Up.
Today’s must-read
Health, Seniors and Long-term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara draws from a deep, decades-old connection to personal care homes as the NDP government tries to live up to its promise to fix health care and help every Manitoban grow old with dignity.
The former university basketball star says it’s a tall order that can be met through teamwork, commitment and restoring relationships that suffered under the previous Progressive Conservative government.
A year into the NDP’s mandate, the 40-year-old registered psychiatric nurse spoke to the Free Press about the job, the need for an independent seniors advocate, the overuse of antipsychotics drugs in personal care homes, improving standards of care and the shortage of care home beds. Carol Sanders has the story.
Minister of Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Uzoma Asagwara (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
When visitors walk into Cheryl Pelletier’s house, the first thing they’ll probably notice is a large framed photo, featuring the Winnipeg woman’s family and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, hanging proudly on a wall.
It’s one of the keepsakes Pelletier has displayed since the former U.S. president and first lady helped build her Habitat for Humanity home in July 1993.
“It was all work that day,” said Pelletier, who reflected on her brief time with the couple in the wake of Jimmy Carter’s death Sunday. “He was a really nice person, and I really liked him and his wife. They were like normal people.” Chris Kitching has more here.
Cheryl Pelletier sits at her kitchen table in 2017 with a board signed by Jimmy Carter and the crew working on her house. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 31, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in Moosehorn, Man., suicide and capture made for a tragic climax to a 100-mile police search for two suspects wanted in the $4,500 robbery of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Ashern three days earlier. A posse led by RCMP officers surrounded a farm house where the two suspects were hiding; one turned his revolver on himself but the other submitted to authorities without a struggle, and $4,100 of stolen money was recovered at the scene. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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