Your forecast
Periods of light snow ending near noon then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light near noon. Temperature falling to -15 this afternoon, wind chill near -20.
What’s happening today
🎦 Sookram’s Double Feature Night: Die Hard/Bad Santa takes place at the Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St. tonight at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 plus fees, available online.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s addictions minister defended the proposed inner-city location of a supervised drug consumption site, which the government wants to open as early as next month, at the first of two public consultations Tuesday.
“This is going to make such a tremendous difference in our community,” said Bernadette Smith, MLA for Point Douglas.
“This is where the data tells us that the supervised consumption needs to be, because the majority of overdoses have happened in this area. Winnipeg fire, paramedics, police, front-line organizations are telling us through the data that it needs to be in this area,” she told the crowd of about 100 business owners and community members.
The provincial government said on Friday it had identified a warehouse at 366 Henry Ave., west of Main Street, as its preferred location. It was immediately criticized by shop owners, many of whom do auto body work and already contend with discarded needles and crime because homeless shelters are nearby. Malak Abas has the story.
Housing, addictions and homelessness minister Bernadette Smith, centre, meets community members after a proposed supervised consumption site open house meeting at Siloam Mission, Tuesday. (John Woods / Free Press)
On the bright side
It was a takedown, Hollywood-style. Award-winning movie and TV actor Paul Walter Hauser, who’s also a professional wrestler, grappled his way to victory in a match in Winnipeg Friday.
Hauser, who is in the city filming the curling-themed movie Sticks and Stones, took down former Winnipeg Professional Wrestling Champion “Bad Boy” Anderson Tyson Moore in what appeared to be an unplanned rumble during the “Stooged 2” bout at the West End Cultural Centre.
Devin Bray, co-owner of the WPW, said the bout had been in the works for about a month when he reached out to Hauser to invite him to watch the evening’s action. But Hauser wanted to do more than just sit in the audience. Kevin Rollason has more here.
Actor Paul Walter Hauser, right, and professional wrestler Bad Boy in the ring at the West End Cultural Centre, Friday. (Dwayne Larson photo)
On this date
On Dec. 10, 1940: The Winnipeg Free Press reported British land, sea and air forces blasted through Italian lines in the deserts of western Egypt and reached the Mediterranean Sea, according to prime minister Winston Churchill. Canadian naval men described how their broken destroyer Saguenay plowed its way unassisted to a British port after a tilt with an enemy submarine; 21 seamen were missing after the battle and 18 were wounded or in hospital. Search our archives for more here.
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