What’s happening today
CBSACanada Border Services Agency shipments of initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Winnipeg.
Set to start vaccinations: The province is set to administer the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to high-priority health workers today. “This is a long-awaited day of hope for Manitobans,” Premier Brian Pallister said Tuesday. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
COVID-19 crisis: Manitoba’s latest COVID-19 numbers will be announced this afternoon. The province surpassed 500 deaths from the disease Tuesday, reporting single-digit deaths and fewer than 300 new cases for the third consecutive day. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Final budget vote: City council will vote on its 2021 budget. Council’s executive policy committee approved a plan Tuesday to increase the city’s debt by $7 million to replace the development impact fees it once planned to devote to a new fire-paramedic station for Waverley West. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of light snow this morning, periods of light snow beginning at about noon, a high of -3 C, a daytime low of -7 C, wind chill as low as -14 and wind from the south at 25 km/h gusting to 40 until mid-afternoon.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSVivianne Julien and Brayden Sosinkalo, co-owners of Springhill Winter Sports Park, make snow preparing for the upcoming season Tuesday.
Some ski hills set to open: Asessippi Ski Resort will open for the season on Saturday, while Springhill Winter Sports Park and Holiday Mountain Resort are scheduled to open next week. Meanwhile, the owners of Stony Mountain Ski Area have decided to skip this season because they do not want to risk staff members catching the virus that causes COVID-19. Nicole Brownlee reports. READ MORE
Protein has potential: A University of Manitoba study found a protein has the potential to be used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Researchers found a decrease in Neuregulin-1 can be used for early diagnosis of MS, and the protein can be injected to slow down the progression of the disease. Kellen Taniguchi reports. READ MORE
Top 25 teams: Jennifer Jones said being the skip of the team the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame named as the most notable in Manitoba’s history is an “absolutely mind-blowing” honour. Kerri Einarson’s squad was the only other active team to make the top 25. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 16, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported two Americans who disappeared from a Moscow hotel had forged passports after they entered Soviet Russia and “borrowed” the names of two New York children who died more than 20 years prior. The Dominion government was called on to impose an embargo on the exportation of war material of any kind from Canada to Japan. The Soviet embassy announced Russia’s “North Pole” scientific station, which was drifting south on a huge cake of ice, was safe after six months of chartering polar ocean currents. New Mickey Mouse and Popeye cartoons would be included on the programme at the Capitol theatre in aid of the Free Press Christmas Cheer fund.
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