Your forecast
Mainly sunny with increasing cloudiness this morning. A 60 per cent chance of rain in the early afternoon followed by a 60 per cent chance of flurries later this afternoon. Wind southwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h becoming northwest at 50 km/h gusting to 70 km/h near noon. High of 3 C with the temperature falling to -8 C this afternoon.
What’s happening today
🎦 Sookram’s Double Feature Night: Die Hard/Bad Santa takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at the Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St. Tickets are $15 plus fees, available online.
Today’s must-read
The Kinew government is blaming droughts, wildfires and U.S. tariffs for a soaring deficit that is more than double its original budget projections.
Come spring, Manitoba is expected to be $1.6 billion in the red, according to a mid-year fiscal and economic report released Monday.
Finance Minister Adrien Sala said the updated forecast reflects unexpected costs that were “largely outside of government’s control.”
Maggie Macintosh reports.
Finance Minister Adrien Sala presents Manitoba’s second quarter financial report to the media at the Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Monday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Jacq Roxas and her 14-year-old son, Asher, were one of five families who received keys to their new homes this month from Habitat for Humanity.
Roxas has moved four times since immigrating from the Philippines in 2012. She’s hopped from studio and one-bedroom apartments around the West End and downtown neighbourhoods.
“Finally this is our home,” Roxas told Asher of the Transcona-area house. “This is our last move.” Reporter Toni De Guzman has the story.
Jacq Roxas (right) and her son, Asher Roxas, hold the keys to their new Habitat for Humanity home on Pandora Avenue West on Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 16, 1931: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, the federal government was planning to take action on the adverse exchange situation, likely by establishing with Canadian banks, an exchange market in Montreal for deals between Canada and Great Britain, in order to end control by New York of the Canadian exchange. In Winnipeg, American boxer Jack Dempsey took on three Canadian fighters in succession, and though he remained undefeated, “Dempsey’s heart [did] not seem to be in fighting as it was in the old sun-dried ring at Shelby and elsewhere…”
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