Your forecast
Fog dissipating this morning, then mainly sunny, with wind up to 15 km/h. High 0 C, wind chill -16 this morning.
Robert Cooke, who made monthly weather charts for the Free Press for 30 years, is calling it quits as his January birthday approaches. Jura McIlraith has the story.
Weather chart man Robert Cooke, 84, is retiring after doing the Free Press chart for 30 years. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
The Free Press series on Winnipeg Transit continues. Tyler Searle looks at security for both passengers and Transit workers, and what Winnipeg can learn from St. Louis, Mo. Read his story here.
Robert Chrismas, leader of Winnipeg’s incoming transit security force. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Erik Pindera and Katrina Clarke look at Winnipeg Transit’s bus shelters, and the challenges faced both by waiting passengers and people experiencing homelessness who use them. Read more here.
People wait for the bus at the stop on Portage Avenue across from Polo Park. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Even before her job offer was finalized in 1973, Senka Dukovich realized her career as a flight attendant had an expiry date. “I had to sign a contract as a new hire that I would quit after 10 years, or that I would quit at 32 years old, whichever came first. Can you believe that?” the Toronto resident recalled. Read more about the flight attendants who fought sexism in the skies — and won — here.
Former flight attendant Senka Dukovich, who fought sexist hiring and work policies at airlines in the 1970s and 1980s. (Chris Young / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 28, 1942: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Russian troops advancing south in the Middle Don sector were only 45 miles from those striking southwestward from Stalingrad, meaning a second Russian trap now threatened 22 German divisions already trapped in the Stalingrad area. Thirty-four people died and hundreds were injured in a train wreck near Almonte, Ont.; Betty McPhail of Winnipeg was one of those hurt. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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