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Sunny, with wind up to 15 km/h. High -21 C, wind chill -33 this morning and -28 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
The City of Winnipeg announced it will conduct a residential street plowing operation and a parking ban is set to take effect from today until Saturday. Vehicles will have to be parked elsewhere from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., depending on the neighbourhood chosen for plowing. Malak Abas has more here.
Pedestrians navigate the snow-covered street along Westminster Avenue Tuesday afternoon. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s physician advocate is calling for an independent investigation into operations at CancerCare Manitoba after a months-long review into the health-care agency revealed a “high level of moral distress” among doctors there, the Free Press has learned.
Details surrounding the review, launched by Doctors Manitoba in September, were outlined in a final report sent to physicians Monday and obtained by the Free Press.
The 14-page document determined complaints about burnout, heavy workloads, recruitment challenges, lacklustre communication, favouritism and distrust in the executive leaders are credible and widespread. Tyler Searle has the story.
CancerCare Manitoba (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Astronomy students at the University of Manitoba now have a celestial boon at their fingertips.
A new $500,000 observatory just outside of St. Adolphe, equipped with a powerful PlaneWave CDK350 telescope, can now be accessed remotely by students.
The upgrade replaces aging equipment and allows students to conduct studies and research from anywhere they have an internet connection, giving them a 360-degree view of the heavens above, provided there are clear skies. Scott Billeck has the story.
Ryan Wierckx, who will start his masters program in January, helped with design and assembly work on the observatory. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 18, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Winnipeg man faced an attempted murder charge after striking another man so hard over the head the victim was in hospital with a fractured skull. In Boston, Toronto Maple Leafs player Irvine “Ace” Bailey received a second operation on his skull to relieve pressure after a serious head injury received during an on-ice hit at a Dec. 12 hockey game. (Editor’s note: though Bailey survived, this injury ended his playing career.) Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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