Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning, with wind from the south at 30 km/h becoming northwest 40 gusting to 60 near noon. High -2 C, wind chill -16 this morning and -10 this afternoon.
Despite a blast of winter weather that brought snowfall to parts of southern Manitoba over the weekend, the prospect of a white Christmas remains uncertain, with warmer temperatures on the way.
“We’re still just looking at mild, sunny conditions throughout the week. We did get a pretty good snowfall with this last system that came through, but it’s really tough to say all the way to Christmas,” Environment Canada meteorologist Rose Carlsen said by phone Sunday. Tyler Searle reports.
People walk in Elzear-Goulet Memorial Park Sunday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
What’s happening today
Several government ministers are expected to launch today a new federal dental insurance plan that will provide benefits directly to eligible Canadian residents, though the first claims won’t be processed until May.
Government officials say the new program will be phased in slowly over 2024. The Canadian Press reports.
Several government ministers are expected to launch a new federal dental-insurance plan that will provide benefits directly to Canadian residents. (Charles Rex Arbogast / The Associated Press / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew is so popular that if an election were held today, his New Democratic Party might do even better than the election two months ago.
A Free Press-Probe Research poll shows Kinew and his party have the support of 51 per cent of Manitobans, up from the 45 per cent they garnered in the Oct. 7 election, which gave them a majority government with 34 of 57 seats. Kevin Rollason reports.
Premier Wab Kinew (Aaron Vincent Elkaim / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Parent, business owner, community advocate — Melissa Bowman Wilson wears many hats. Miracle worker is one of them.
Bowman Wilson is one of the organizers behind A Wolseley Miracle, an annual food drive in the neighbourhood she’s called home for 20 years. Aaron Epp has the story.
On this date
On Dec. 11, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported Prince Rupert’s Lodge No. 1 A.F. and A.M. celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Royal Alexandria Hotel in an event that would “live long in the annals… of the Masonic fraternity in Manitoba.” In Geneva, a special commission of the League of Nations would look at how an economic blockade could be used to prevent war. The Free Press published its annual Christmas literary supplement. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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