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Sunny becoming a mix of sun and cloud around 12 p.m. with a high of -20 C, wind chill as low as -38 and wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg improv troupe Outside Joke returns to Prairie Theatre Exchange for its latest holiday performance. Reporter Ben Waldman has a preview on the show.
The members of Outside Joke spent the summer watching holiday movies in preparation for their new show. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
It has been 45 years since the concrete barriers preventing pedestrians from crossing the street at Portage and Main were installed, forcing people into the concourse under the storied intersection.
Construction crews began working Tuesday to reopen the crosswalks at “Canada’s windiest corner,” the beginning of the end of the ferocious, decades-long debate that has burned at the centre of the city for nearly a half-century.
Nicole Buffie has the story.
Construction workers at the south west corner of Portage and Main start to demolish the barricades. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 11, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the city’s first subsidized housing plan, pegged at $7.4 million and under the provisions of the national housiing plan and the Housing Accommodation Act of Manitoba, was presented to city council; the plan would build 848 homes. In Ottawa, representatives from the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities pressed prime minister Louis St. Laurent for measures to stimulate “substantial” house building activity in 1952. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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