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Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud near noon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -18 C, wind chill -37 this morning and -25 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.
What’s happening today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet later this morning at Rideau Hall to shore up his beleaguered government.
Winnipeg MP Terry Duguid is among those expected to be named to a cabinet position.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Gov. Gen. Mary Simon depart after Dominic LeBlanc, not shown, was sworn in as Finance Minister on Monday. (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
WAG-Qaumajuq begins screening the award-winning ads from the 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. (Jen Zoratti has a preview here; visit the gallery website for the full schedule.)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s auditor general found “an unprecedented number of errors” during his office’s latest review of 2023-24 receipts submitted by the provincial government and public entities.
“We identified significant weaknesses in financial statement preparation,” Tyson Shtykalo wrote in a new report on public accounts and related statements.
Shtykalo’s findings show bureaucrats were asked to correct a long list of problems with their statements related to processes around collecting budget documents internally and across the public sector. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
On the bright side
When Matthew Tannas opened up his lotto app after working a night shift and saw he had won $40 million, he drove to his brother’s house so someone he trusted could tell him he wasn’t dreaming.
With the Dec. 3 Lotto Max win confirmed, the Hamiota resident headed to his wife’s workplace next to share the life-changing news. She was thrilled to learn they had won $40,000 — then she started counting the zeroes and realized her mistake.
The father of three admitted his plans for the future are “boring;” he has no plans to retire. With one child in high school and two in university, the windfall will ensure their children’s educational journey will be easy. They will also help nieces and nephews in the same way, he added. Koralee Nickarz has more here.
Matthew Tannas shows off his big lottery win, one of the largest prizes ever won by a Manitoban. (Supplied)
On this date
On Dec. 20, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, because of a heavy legislative load, MPs would only get a two-day break for Christmas. Winnipeg city council set May 1, 1974 as the target date for the unification of the city’s eight police departments. In Madrid, Spanish premier Luis Carrero Blanco died in an explosion that blew his car 30 feet into the air; the government announced he had been assassinated. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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