Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h becoming light early this morning. High -13, wind chill -27 this morning and 19 this afternoon.
Out west, a winter storm has dumped heavy snow over parts of central and northern British Columbia, and freezing rain is in the forecast as temperatures start to rise. A warning from Environment Canada says additional accumulation of 25 to 40 centimetres is expected over inland areas of the north coast, including Stewart.
And to the east, intense snow squalls battering Ontario moved south Sunday after burying some parts of the province under more than a metre of snow, stranding people on roadways and prompting one town to declare a state of emergency. Gravenhurst, a town in Ontario’s Muskoka region hit with around 140 centimetres of snowfall, declared a state of emergency early Sunday.
Intense snow squalls battering Ontario are moving south after burying some central and northern parts of the province under more than a metre of snow and stranding vehicles on a highway. (Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Family members of two First Nations women whose remains are believed to be buried in landfills in the Winnipeg area have lodged a human rights complaint against the city, alleging it didn’t do enough to bring their loved ones home.
As the long-awaited search is expected to ramp up recovery efforts later this month, the complaint says the city’s initial refusal to search amounts to discrimination.
The claim says the city “systemically discriminates” against Indigenous women, girls, 2SLGBTQQIA+ people and their families based on their “ancestry, gender identity, sexual orientation and sex without bona fide and reasonable cause.” Scott Billeck has the story.
Recovery efforts are set to gear up later this month at the Prairie Green landfill for the bodies of slain women. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
For the last seven years, Lorraine Rempel’s volunteering has gone to the dogs.
The River Heights resident donates her time as a puppy raiser with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind guide dog program.
Since February 2018, Rempel has raised four puppies for CNIB. A fifth puppy — Ollie, a black Labrador retriever cross — joined Rempel’s family last week. Aaron Epp has the story.
Puppy raisers like Lorraine Rempel (with Ollie) help make sure future guide dogs are happy, healthy and confident before future training. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 2, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported unemployment was serious in many parts of the country, particularly among men returned from fighting in the Great War. In Brandon, the situation of the province’s highways was a major point of discussion at a meeting of the Union of Maniotba Munucipalities. The Free Press announced new phone numbers for its departments; the circulation department could be reached at A3330. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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