Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with light snow mixed with ice pellets beginning this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -11 C, wind chill -26 this morning and -16 this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
🎭 The Glitter Bird by Winnipeg writer Primrose Madayag Knazan opens at the Philippine Canadian Centre of Manitoba, 737 Keewatin St., and runs to Dec. 30; tickets available online. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
The cast of The Glitter Bird presents a retelling of a classic Filipino folk tale. (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The tabs open on Premier Wab Kinew’s laptop will all but certainly surprise the average Manitoban.
Google Gemini, Claude by Anthropic and other artificial-intelligence powered assistants can be found coding on his behalf, even when his computer appears to be asleep.
Following a year-end interview with the Free Press, Kinew revealed he had been multitasking — with the help of large language models — the whole time.
“I’m building an automatic translator for the Ojibwa language,” he said in his office Thursday, which culminated with an impromptu monologue about AI.
Upon completion, Kinew’s homemade software will be able to translate written paragraphs into Anishinaabemowin. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Premier Wab Kinew speaks to students at Bernie Wolfe School earlier this year. The premier says he’s excited for a 2026 summit that will gather hundreds of teachers to discuss AI. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Janet Adam enjoys being in the kitchen so much that family members have quipped she may need help. “My daughter always says I should go to a support group because I bake so much,” Adam jokes.
Adam channels that love for baking into her volunteer work at the Ronald McDonald House Family Room in the Children’s Hospital.
Operated by Ronald McDonald House Manitoba, the 3,500-square-foot space operates daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s open to all families with pediatric patients, and is meant to be a warm, comforting place where they can rest and take a break from the hospital environment. Aaron Epp has more here.
Janet Adam volunteers at the Ronald McDonald House Family Room in the Children’s Hospital, where she bakes, helps prepare meals, distributes food and does light housekeeping. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 22, 1922: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that when public schools in the city reopened after the Christmas break, children who had been attending Catholic parochial schools would be accommodated instead in the public school system; the change would affect 3,300 Catholic students. In the U.S. House of Representatives, anti-prohibitionists scored a victory when they jammed the Democratic 3.2 per cent beer bill through Congress unchanged; it would next be taken up by the Senate. Search our archives for more here.
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