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Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of light snow. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High -9. Wind chill -20 this morning and -14 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Canada Post is resuming operations after a month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers left letters and parcels in limbo.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered postal workers back on the job after holding hearings over the weekend to determine whether they were too far apart to reach a deal by the end of 2024. The Canadian Press has more here.
A Canada Post truck at a distribution centre in Montreal(Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press files)
The Winnipeg Jets face the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center, starting at 9:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s forecasted deficit for 2024-25 has risen by $513 million, but the NDP is billing the latest fiscal report as a “good news story” given overall improvements since the party formed government 14 months ago.
Finance Minister Adrien Sala provided a mid-year fiscal and economic update Monday afternoon.
His new 18-page report suggests the province is on track to end the fiscal year ending on March 31 with a $1.3-billion deficit. That’s up from a $796-million projection in Budget 2024. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara (left) and Finance Minister Adrien Sala presented the province’s fiscal update Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Most people who take on global injustices don’t wear a cape and tights. Internationally known Winnipeg lawyer and human-rights crusader David Matas is not most people.
The Justice Hunter, as he’s depicted in a new children’s book with that title, wears his familiar round wire-frame eyeglasses. But his regular street clothes have been replaced by a blue top emblazoned with a capital D inside a red Star of David, blue tights and a red cape.
The book is a companion to a documentary about his life and advocacy, also titled The Justice Hunter, produced by local filmmaker Yolanda Papini-Pollock, who authored the book, as well. Kevin Rollason has more here.
David Matas is a lawyer and human rights advocate. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 17, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported near Swan River, a hunting expedition ended in tragedy when a Shoal Lake man was shot and killed by a hunter who had mistaken him for a moose. In Bird’s Hill, two men were taken into custody by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police after discovery of a moonshine operation and then released on bail; police secretly followed them back to their home, where they were caught loading liquor that had not been found earlier into a car. After a wild car chase, police arrested the men. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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