Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness with snow and blowing snow beginning around noon. Around five centimetres of snowfall is anticipated. Wind from the southeast at 20 km/h increasing to 40 km/h and gusting to 70 km/h around noon. High of -11 C.
What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets play the Colorado Avalanche at 8 p.m.
🎭Sick + Twisted Theatre presents Jax, The Beanstalk, The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Merry Crip-mas Panto! at the West End Cultural Centre at 7 p.m. Tickets are available online.
🩰The Royal Winnipeg Ballet returns to the stage for its annual production of The Nutcracker. Reporter Jen Zoratti has a preview on the performance, which runs until Dec. 27. Tickets are available online.
Today’s must-read
A blizzard forced the cancellation of classes in Winnipeg, but not in time to prevent some school staff from driving to work and ending up stranded because it was too dangerous to head home.
A school custodian said several support workers in one school division had reported for work Thursday morning only to realize classes had been cancelled. Some had driven in from outside the city and had to stay put because highways had closed.
The custodian was forced to remain with the support workers who waited out the storm.
Reporter Nicole Buffie has the story.
David Monias blows snow from the sidewalk on Valour Road on Thursday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 19, 1981: The Winnipeg Free Press reported police crackdowns and fines as high as $100,000 failed to curb the sex-for-pay business at the city’s massage parlours and escort services. In Ottawa, finance minister Allan McEachen made a series of changes to his Nov. 12 budget, altering the tax system in key areas. Donations to the Winnipeg Free Press Spirit of Christmas campaign topped $36,000. Search our archives for more here.
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