Your forecast
Light snow with a high of -1 C and a low of -11 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Nashville Predators at the Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra’s final staging of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas takes place tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Alison Cox and her husband say they felt like “animals in a cage” when, after going to Concordia Hospital with pneumonia, they were placed in an empty ambulance bay for six hours while they waited for medical treatment. Malak Abas has the story.
Alison Cox was triaged with her husband in a cold hospital garage with pneumonia. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Manitoba start-up FasTab has partnered with more than 20 local restaurants to allow diners to scan a QR code and settle their bill. Gabrielle Piché reports.
FasTab co-founder Carson Keck (left), Confusion Corner Drinks & Food owner Kevin Byrne, and FasTab co-founder Zechariah Noiseux at Confusion Corner, one of the first restaurants to use FasTab, a program where customers can pay for their bills any time by scanning a QR code. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 15, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Adolf Eichmann, Nazi Germany’s expediter of Jews to the gas chambers, was sentenced to be hanged in Israel for a “crime of unparalleled enormity.” Major drug companies slashed the price of vitamins by as much as 45 per cent in the wake of public inquiries into drug prices. UN troops launched a major offensive against Katanga forces near Elizabethville in the Republic of Congo, which was torn by conflict following its independence from Belgium a year earlier. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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