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An extreme cold warning is in effect for Winnipeg as the windchill is expected to reach -41 C this morning. Sunny with a high of -25 C and wind from the west at 15 km/h.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets play the Vegas Golden Knights at the Canada Life Centre. Puck drop is 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Mayor Scott Gillingham says a decades-high property tax hike is the best option to balance the city’s next budget without cutting critical services.
The proposed 2025 budget revealed Wednesday would impose a 5.95 per cent property tax increase that would, among other things, enable the city to hire dozens of additional police officers.
Reporter Joyanne Pursaga has the details.
Mayor Scott Gillingham suggested there was little choice but to increase property taxes. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 12, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported at least 500 Manitobans had been struck by a rare, flu-like virus known as “Coxsackie B4” to which there was no known antidote. The Manitoba government imposed a virtual freeze on the budgets for all hospitals in the province for the coming year. In Tokyo, police claimed they had smashed a far-right plot to assassinate premier Hayato Ikeda and other leading members of the Japanese government. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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