Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning and wind up to 15 km/h. High -1 C. Wind chill -13 this morning and -5 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Galleries and studios in the Exchange District shift into holiday today. Among the many offerings at First Fridays at the Exchange is a trunk sale presented by Women Helping Women Beadwork, which will take place at the C2 Centre for Craft, 329 Cumberland Ave.
All proceeds from sales at Women Helping Women Beadwork goes to the crafters. (Supplied)
You can also head out to Pitaw Mino Muskiki Indigenous Handmade Winter Market for ideas. The event takes place today 5-9 p.m. and Saturday,10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Via Rail Union Station, 123 Main St.
The Pitaw Mino Muskiki Indigenous Handmade Winter Market (Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew expects local grocery stores will lower food prices during a proposed provincial fuel tax holiday — and warned retailers who don’t pass on the savings can count on the government to act.
Speaking to reporters at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities fall convention in Brandon, the NDP premier said he wants to shoppers see immediate savings at their local grocery store, if the 14-cents-per-litre provincial fuel tax is paused in the new year. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew (Tim Smith / The Brandon Sun)
On the bright side
Crews have installed what’s billed as the United States’ first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit. Copper inductive charging coils allow vehicles equipped with receivers to charge up their batteries while driving, idling or parking above the coils. The Associated Press reports.
An electric van drives past a visible in-road wireless charging coil to be installed in a street in Detroit. (Paul Sancya / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Dec. 1, 1978: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an electrician’s apprentice was sentenced to work at Transcona Christian Reform Church, which he had helped to rob the previous year. Gasoline wholesalers lost around $500,000 in the price wars in November. Manitoba Liquor Commission employees had the option to purchase damaged alcohol products at bargain prices, unlike workers in liquor commissions in other provinces. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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