Your forecast
Light snow today with a high of -11 C and a low of -22 C. A blowing snow advisory is in effect for Winnipeg and reduced visibility is forecasted.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the Columbus Blue Jackets at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Headlines: The Art of the News Cycle, an exhibit at the Winnipeg Art Gallery showcasing the Free Press, has its opening celebration today. Admission is free and doors open at 6 p.m., with a program beginning at 7 p.m. Click here for more information.
Patrons gather at the Winnipeg Art Gallery to take in 150 years of Free Press history. (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
This month’s First Fridays event throughout the Exchange District features plenty of creative and interactive events — several with a holiday twist — with more than 24 businesses, galleries and art centres across the Exchange are participating.
Saskatchewan Elvis tribute artist Rory Allen will take the stage at at Club Regent Event Centre at 7 p.m. with his 11-piece band for his Rockin’ Elvis Christmas show.
At Osborne Library, library patrons can bring in their cookie cutters to swap them out for other ones, starting today and continuing until Jan. 3.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg police have charged an alleged serial killer with the murders of three more Indigenous women — whose bodies have not been found — after he was arrested and charged in a homicide and dismemberment last May. Chris Kitching has the full story.
Partial remains of Rebecca Contois were found in a garbage bin in the 200 block of Edison Avenue, just east of Henderson Highway, on May 16. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 2, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill’s plane touched down briefly to refuel in Gander, Nfld., en rotue to a summit in Bermuda with U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower and French premier Joseph Laniel. In Winnipeg, the mayor said there were no plans yet to honour the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, recently defeated in the Grey Cup game by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, with a civic reception or banquet. In New Jersey, using a new method of recording on magnetic tape, the video and sound of a television broadcast was demonstrated. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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