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Mainly sunny, with wind up to 15 km/h. High -3 C, wind chill -14 this morning and -7 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Members of Mennonite churches in Winnipeg will be gathering outside the office of Liberal cabinet minister Dan Vandal’s office on St. Mary’s Road at noon Tuesday to hold a church service for peace. John Longhurst has the story.
The First Mennonite Church (Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
A 14-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in downtown Winnipeg Friday afternoon — after police say an acquaintance turned on her — is being remembered as a “precious” child with unfulfilled potential.
The Indigenous teen spent part of her life in Manitoba’s child-welfare system, moving between foster homes in northern Manitoba and, recently, Winnipeg, a former foster mother told the Free Press.
“She was a beautiful young girl. She was loved by many and she had a beautiful spirit,” the woman said in a tearful phone interview Monday. “She had so much potential in her life.” Chris Kitching reports.
The homicide scene on Graham Avenue, just west of Fort Street, remained taped off by police Saturday, a day after a teenage girl was fatally stabbed. (Chris Kitching / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
The United States on Friday returned to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armour, helmets and breastplates, found to have been illicitly removed from the country, authorities said.
The pieces handed over to Greek officials in New York date back from as long as 4,700 years ago to the Middle Ages. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the “exquisite” works were collectively valued at $3.7 million (3.39 million euros). The Associated Press reports.
On this date
On Dec. 19, 1931: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 28 people were believed to have died in three shipwrecks, two near the Faroe Islands, caused by high winds in the North Sea. Manitoba premier John Bracken’s support for seven resolutions of the Liberal party platform in The Pas ensured his nomination as the Liberal candidate in the north country. The Free Press would publish a complete list of first-run motion pictures that had played in the city in 1931 so readers could vote for their favourite film of the year. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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