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A mix of sun and cloud, with wind up to 15 km/h. High -1 C, wind chill -15 this morning and -6 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
While a white Christmas might still be uncertain for Manitoba this year, Saskatchewan Elvis Presley tribute artist Rory Allen is coming to town to make sure the holiday season is just the right amount of blue. Club Regent Event Centre, 1425 Regent Ave. W., 7 p.m., tickets from $31.25 plus fees at ticketmaster.ca.
Rory Allen (Supplied)
At 8 p.m, Bush Lotus — the soulful folk project of Arielle Beaupré — plays the Good Will (625 Portage Ave.) with Mahogany Frog and Sweeping. Tickets: $16.88 at reallovewpg.com
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is hosting her annual meeting of federal, provincial and territorial finance ministers in Toronto today. The Canadian Press reports.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
City police are investigating reports of AI-generated nude photos of underage students circulating at a local high school.
Members of the Winnipeg Police Service attended Collège Béliveau, a Grade 9-12 high school in Windsor Park, on Wednesday as part of a child pornography investigation. Maggie Macintosh reports.
Dani McKinnon, public information officer for the Winnipeg Police Service. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 15, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the city police commission met in an emergency session to begin immediate study of an estimated $900,000 worth of repairs and renovations to the Rupert Avenue police headquarters; the repairs were made necesary by a rejection by Winnipeg ratepayers of a $4,200,000 bylaw to build a new police headquarters. Confusion hung over Addis Ababa after a coup removed Ethiopia’s King Haile Selassi from power and installed his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, as ruler. A Cessna that went missing in a snowstorm en route to Brandon was reportedly spotted near Indian Head, Sask., and the RCMP and RCAF were involved in the search. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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