Your forecast
Sunny, with wind from the southwest at 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High 4 C, wind chill -7 this morning.
What’s happening today
Sick + Twisted Theatre is putting on a holiday panto this week at Prairie Theatre Exchange, taking the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf and turning the zaniness and sass up to 100, writes Ben Waldman. Little Red and Big Bad opens tonight at 7 p.m. at PTE’s Colin Jackson Theatre.
Hailley Rhoda (Big Bad), from left, Theresa Thomson (Dame Di Hard), Adam Schwartz (Panto Pony), Mitch Krohn (Granny), Amanda Ritchot (Baby Blue), Heather Bjorklund (Little Red), and Rae Gunn (Bark Hamill) of Sick + Twisted Theatre. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
No ifs and buts… it’s the end for Winnipeg’s famous brand of candies and nuts, and it won’t be a very merry Christmas for the people working at Nutty Club.
Scott-Bathgate, the 120-year-old east Exchange District confectionery manufacturer and distributor of the instantly recognizable Can-D-Man logoed Nutty Club products, announced Wednesday it will wind down its operations in an “orderly and controlled manner” by the end of January. Gabrielle Piché and Malak Abas have the story.
Scott-Bathgate Nutty Club building (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The year’s best meteor shower, the Geminids, peaks this week. Skygazers may see as many as one or even two a minute streaking across dark skies. The meteors will reach their frenzy Thursday. The Associated Press reports.
The Geminid meteor shower lights up the night sky above Tybee Island, Ga., in 2017. (Will Peebles / Savannah Morning News via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 14, 1950: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Allied forces pulled deeper into their northern Korean beachhead as 100,000 Chinese communist troops massed in an arc around them, and jet air battles near Manchuria were inconclusive. In Ottawa, prime minister Louis St, Laurent announced pay hikes ranging from $80 to $480 a year for many federal civil servants, retroactive to Dec. 1, but the increases would likely not be seen until Parliament approved funding to cover it, which would not happen until February. Maj.-Gen. F.F.W. Worthington said Winnipeg was far ahead of other Canadian cities in its plans for civil defence. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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