Your forecast
High of -9 C with a 30 per cent chance of flurries today; mainly cloudy. Chance of freezing rain late tonight and overnight.
What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets host the Ottawa Senators at Canada Life Centre, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-reads
The chairman of the Manitoba Hydro board of directors — who oversaw the province’s electricity and gas Crown corporation — has abruptly resigned his position. Ben Graham, who was appointed to lead the Manitoba Hydro Electric Board in 2023 shortly after the NDP was returned to power, submitted his resignation late last week, the provincial government has confirmed. Read more from Dan Lett.
A total of 13 criminal cases have been thrown out of court in Manitoba because of court delays since 2016 — and the union representing Crown prosecutors is calling attention to the demanding workload Crowns maintain to keep delays from jeopardizing cases.
“Crowns are basically bending over backwards to prevent this stuff. It’s embarrassing and it’s unjust to victims (to have cases stayed out of Jordan considerations),” said Michael Desautels, the president of the Manitoba Association of Crown Attorneys. Erik Pindera reports.
Culinary Connections, an after-school program organized by Red River College Polytechnic and the Winnipeg School Division, has marked its one-year anniversary. The program designed to expose inner-city students to new recipes, skills and post-secondary training. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
On the bright side
The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Kettle campaign aims to raise $357,000. Sharon Huta is one of the volunteers helping with the campaign.
By Dec. 24, she’ll have worked about 15 volunteer shifts soliciting donations at the Superstore on St. Anne’s Road.
“All the people are very, very pleasant — very nice, very cheerful. I love it,” says Huta, 60. “You meet all kinds of people and they’re really amazing.”
Read more from Aaron Epp.
Salvation Army Christmas Kettle volunteer Sharon Huta is all smiles as she solicits donations at the Real Canadian Superstore on St. Anne’s Road. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 15, 1921: The Manitoba Free Press reported as prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was selecting cabinet ministers, the three prairie provinces looked likely to have only two representatives. The last steamer ship of the season passed through the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., as ice was reportedly forming fast in St. Mary’s River. Search our archives for more here.
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