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Snow, with blowing snow this afternoon, 2 to 4 cm. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 early this morning then increasing to 40 gusting to 60 near noon. Temperature falling to -5 this afternoon, wind chill -3 this morning and -17 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
The Nightmare Before Christmas and Die Hard — two films that have been hotly contested as to whether or not they qualify as a “Christmas movie” — will be screened at a double feature at the Park Theatre. Read more.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Touchstone Pictures)
Today’s must-read
A slight dip in support won’t prevent Manitoba New Democrats from ending 2024 on a high.
Premier Wab Kinew’s party continues to hold a significant grip on the population, with more than half of Manitobans saying they’d vote for him again, as per a Free Press-Probe Research poll.
“It’s very much the same,” Probe partner Mary Agnes Welch said. “The NDP is still in a good phase.” Scott Billeck has the story.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew (David Lipnowski / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
The festival of lights will be brighter for 100 Winnipeg households this year, thanks to an initiative of B’nai Brith Canada and Jewish Child and Family Service.
The two organizations are gearing up for their annual Hanukkah food program this week.
The program sees volunteers package and deliver parcels to some of the Jewish community’s most vulnerable members, including seniors, Holocaust survivors, widows and widowers and people with disabilities. Aaron Epp has more here.
Volunteering with the Hanukkah food program is a way for Barry Weber to contribute to his community. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 16, 1913: The Manitoba Free Press reported business had resumed in Plum Coulee after a robbery at its Bank of Montreal and murder of the bank’s manager. Near Rosser, a 15-year-old girl crossed a CPR train track with her sister and was struck by the train engine’s “cowcatcher” before being dragged 18 yards and subsequently killed by the train’s wheels. In Minneapolis, a direct Grand Trunk Pacific passenger train from Regina could be rolling into the Great Northern Station in Minneapolis as early as the spring.
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