Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with wind from the south at 30 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High 1 C.
Canada’s chief climatologist says if you don’t already have it, the song is the only white Christmas you’re likely to get. David Phillips of Environment Canada says most of the country has been unusually dry and warm this year.
That adds up to a green Yule, since the snow hasn’t had a chance to fall and when it does, it melts. The Canadian Press reports.
A golfer at the Shaganappi Point golf course in Calgary earlier this month. (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press files)
What’s happening today
The Crash Test Dummies take the stage at the Club Regent Event Centre, performing Christmas carols as well as many of their hits, starting at 7 p.m. Alan Small has a preview here.
Crash Test Dummies’ Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid are home for Christmas. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Just one day before a 14-year-old girl was stabbed to death in downtown Winnipeg, a judge expressed alarm over the lack of appropriate housing supports to keep her safe.
“I just think in this province, at this time, when we have deep concerns about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, how is that not a priority to see that she has the resources?” provincial court Judge Kusham Sharma said at a Dec. 14 bail hearing for the girl. Dean Pritchard and Chris Kitching report.
About a dozen yellow evidence markers were placed on the sidewalk in front of the Cargill Building Saturday. (Chris Kitching / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The pandemic shook things up in incalculable ways, including creating the breeding ground for new enterprises. One of them was Win-Shield Medical Devices, a Winnipeg company that in a matter of nine months designed, produced and shipped more than four million plastic face shields for health-care workers and others.
Win-Shield has just received a $100,000 grant in the latest tranche of recipients of the province’s Innovation Growth Program along with four other companies. Martin Cash has the story.
Rob Ranson, founder of Win-Shield Medical Devices Inc. (left) and Jamie Moses Manitoba Minister of Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Natural Resources.(Martin Cash / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 21, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported RCMP charged two Winnipeg druggists, alleging they had been selling barbituates illegally. A proposed provincial canal linking Lake Manitoba with the Assiniboine River was expected to save Winnipeg $19 million in sewage treatment costs. In Montreal, a proposed job freeze for Canada’s 110,000 non-operating railway employees was hailed as a “historic labour principle” by the chief negotiator for the workers. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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