What’s happening today
A front-end loader clears snow from a parking lot downtown last month. (Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Snow warning in effect: A snowfall warning is in effect. As much as 20 cm is expected in Winnipeg, along with high winds, blowing snow and wind chill dipping below -30 late tonight. READ MORE
Hockey on hold: Winnipeg Jets fans are waiting to learn whether Wednesday night’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks will proceed. The NHL has postponed several days worth of games, including today’s, but play is currently scheduled to resume Tuesday despite surging COVID-19 numbers in Canada and the United States. Mike McIntyre reports on the Jets returning to practice Sunday. READ MORE
Bells toll for Tutu: Bells rang at noon local time in Cape Town, South Africa, to honour former archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died this weekend at age 90. The bells at St. George’s Anglican Cathedral, where Tutu urged people to work together against apartheid, will toll for 10 minutes for five days. Tutu later led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that documented apartheid’s atrocities and sought to promote reconciliation. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: About 10 to 20 cm of snow, with some blowing snow this afternoon, a high of -8 C, wind chill as low as -27 this afternoon and peak winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 in the morning and afternoon.
In case you missed it
Vic Pereira walks with his guide dog Porthos near his home on Wellington Crescent. Pereira thinks the city should require those who own homes or businesses to shovel the sidewalks beside them. (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
Sidewalk-clearing suggestion: Some Winnipeggers say residents should be required to shovel public sidewalks to ensure they are passable throughout the winter. Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Vancouver are among the Canadian cities that require property owners to clear their own sidewalks. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Eliminating ‘loopholes’: The University of Manitoba is among the post-secondary institutions that will review how they collect self-identification data for jobs and scholarships created for Indigenous people after a series of controversies that have made headlines this year. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Forced to face facts: Melissa Martin looks back at the discoveries of unmarked residential school graves, deemed by the Free Press to be one of the top stories that mattered in 2021. “If you were watching only the headlines, you might think that this was the first time Canada had become aware of the scope of deaths in residential schools, but that information had been sitting right out in the open for generations,” Martin writes. READ MORE
‘It’s very frustrating’: A Manitoba business executive says the provincial government needs to make it easier for employers to acquire rapid tests to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Renaissance revival building: The Canada Permanent Building on Garry Street, a municipally designated historic site, is for sale. Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 27, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported the frozen body of a crew member of the missing tugboat Cornell, thought to have sunk on Lake Erie, was found in a lifeboat; it was thought a boiler explosion caused the Cornell’s destruction. A visiting moderator of the Presbyterian church, having made a tour of congregations in Canada, said the prospect of unity in the Western provinces would not be easy given changes among Presbyterians over the previous 20 years.
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