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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe closed Omand’s Creek bridge in Wolseley on Friday.
Path plowed: Coun. Sherri Rollins, chairwoman of the parks committee, said she understands the frustration of two Wolseley men who cleared a footbridge themselves after the city closed it, but said safety is always the top priority. “Sometimes things are closed for reasons,” she said. Crews cleared the pathway on either side of the bridge Monday. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Articles of impeachment: The House of Representatives’ rules committee will meet today in what is expected to be a marathon session to set the parameters for debate in the full House on two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Brexit bill: Britain’s Tory government will add a clause to its Brexit bill to bar extending trade negotiations with the European Union beyond 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said today. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Partly cloudy with a temperature of about -23 C until the late afternoon, with a risk of frostbite, wind from the northwest at 15 km/h this morning and wind chill as low as -33.
What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESWinnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice: “This is home for me. I love this place.”
Hosting Hurricanes: The Jets face the Carolina Hurricanes at Bell MTS Place at 7 p.m. Meanwhile, Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice says a rumour he will be tapped to lead Seattle’s expansion NHL team are false. Taylor Allen reports. READ MORE
Death sentence for ex-dictator: Pakistan’s former dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has been sentenced to death for treason over a 2007 purge in which he imposed a state of emergency. Musharraf has been living in the United Arab Emirates, which has no extradition treaty with Pakistan, since 2016. READ MORE
More meetings: Provincial finance ministers will meet with their federal counterpart, Bill Morneau, in Ottawa for a second and final day of meetings. Scott Fielding said he hopes the provinces can convince Ottawa to boost health transfers. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Comic convention: Winnipeg Comiccon has unveiled part of the lineup for the inaugural convention next fall. The event will replace the long-running Central Canada Comic Con. READ MORE
In case you missed it
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) scrambles to pass in the first half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Brees set the all-time NFL completion percentage in a game completing 28 of 29 passes for a completion percentage of 96.7. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
League’s new leader: New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees became the NFL’s career leader in touchdown passes as he threw four in a rout of the Indianapolis Colts on Monday Night Football. READ MORE
‘Seeing a bottle doesn’t bother me’: Dr. Frank Plummer, who helped created the ebola vaccine, underwent brain surgery a year ago as the first participant in a study investigating deep-brain stimulation to treat alcoholism. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 17, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a five-year-old boy fell through the ice on the Red River and died despite the efforts of police, who recovered his body 40 minutes later, and performed artificial respiration on him. In Montreal, members of the Bronfman family faced charges related to a large liquor smuggling ring the RCMP was investigating. In Chicago, Joseph Burns, one of John Dillinger’s last followers, was captured in his southside rendezvous and linked by a tell-tale slip of paper to a $427,000 armoured car robbery in Brooklyn the previous August. READ MORE
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