What’s happening today
Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press. Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin and chief nursing officer Lanette Siragusa give an update regarding COVID-19 in the Province of Manitoba. November 30, 2020.
Nasty November: The beginning of a new month is an opportunity to look back on the last. Manitoba’s death count from COVID-19 surged from 75 to 312 in November, among other grim milestones. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
COVID-19 crisis: Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, will announce the latest COVID-19 numbers. The province reported 11 more deaths, including a man in his 30s and a woman in her 40s, and 343 new cases of the disease Monday. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Set to release stats: Statistics Canada will announce this morning how the economy fared in the third quarter, which ended in September. The second quarter, ending in June, was the worst three-month period on record because of the economic fallout from the pandemic. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Hydro hike: A 2.9 per cent electricity rate increase took effect this morning, without public scrutiny. A budget implementation act that took effect last month allows the provincial government to impose hikes without a review by the Public Utilities Board. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Basketball camps begin: NBA training camps are opening, less than two months after the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Miami Heat to win the championship. It was a short off-season for some teams, but this is the first basketball since March for the eight NBA franchises that didn’t resume the regular season in July. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of 1 C, a daytime low of -5 C, wind chill as low as -11, and peak winds from the south at 20 km/h this morning.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESSprings Church on Lagimodiere holds a service against Manitoba Health COVID-19 orders Sunday.
‘A good example’: Three of the city’s largest evangelical churches say they won’t be hosting drive-in services, as Springs Church did this weekend in contravention of pandemic guidelines. “We want to be a good example within and without our faith community,” Bruce Martin, pastor of Calvary Temple, said Monday. John Longhurst reports. READ MORE
Portage Place proposal: Starlight Investments says it needs more time to work to secure federal funding for its proposed redevelopment of Portage Place. The developer had hoped to secure $20 million from each level of government by Nov. 30. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Chief wants military aid: Shamattawa First Nation is asking Ottawa for help as the fly-in community faces increasing COVID-19 and tuberculosis cases. “The Canadian military can deploy all around the world,” Chief Eric Redhead said. “We’re asking them to deploy in their own backyard for their own citizens.” Julia-Simone Rutgers reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 1, 1995: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men faced 60 charges after police arrested two suspects following 15 violent robberies that had struck terror into night shift workers over the previous two weeks. The federal government was set to roll out its overhaul of unemployment insurance, tightening eligibility and lowering overall benefits, but investing $800 million in retraining and assistance for lower-income Canadians. In Banff, Alta., three teen snowboarders for Manitoba who went missing in whiteout conditions, and who searchers feared might have been victims of an avalanche, were found safe.
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