Your forecast
Sunny, with fog patches dissipating this morning and wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 0 C, wind chill -14 this morning. Tonight, there is a 60 per cent chance of flurries.
What’s happening today
Canada faces Sweden in the world junior hockey championsip in Gothenburg, starting at 12:30 p.m. CT.
What’s happening this weekend
New Year’s Eve is on Sunday, and Free Press writers AV Kitching, Ben Sigurdson, Alan Small, Eva Wasney and Jen Zoratti have the lowdown on celebrations to ring in 2024.
DJ Co-op (Tim Hoover) and K Chedda (Karl Colpitts) with their daughter Ellie; the couple host the WackyDoodle Dance Party. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s premier wants to study the feasibility and cost of moving rail yards and lines out of Winnipeg — a mammoth undertaking that he believes should be done incrementally.
In a year-end interview, Wab Kinew signalled an intent to explore the idea in 2024. “This is something that’s a hugely expensive potential proposition,” he said. “But maybe if we look at it in a decades-long timeline… rather than a next-year timeline, then maybe it is realistic.” Chris Kitching has more here.
(Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Don’t miss the bus
The Free Press‘s series on Winnipeg Transit continues, as AV Kitching tours its main maintenance campus, a vast compound sprawling across more than a million square feet, as well as talking to the people in charge of taking care of lost items found on city buses.
Adam Cunliffe, Supervisor, Customer Services Winnipeg Transit, checks out a bin full of misplaced mitts and gloves in the Lost Property office at the Winnipeg Transit Customer Service Centre. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate changes, the U.S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon and citizen groups around Puget Sound are turning to a deceptively simple climate adaptation strategy called “assisted migration.” As the world’s climate warms, tree growing ranges in the Northern Hemisphere are predicted to move farther north and higher in elevation.
Trees, of course, can’t get up and walk to their new climatic homes. This is where assisted migration is supposed to lend a hand. The idea is that humans can help trees keep up with climate change by moving them to more favorable ecosystems faster than the trees could migrate on their own. The Associated Press reports.
As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate change, the U.S. Forest Service and others are turning to a strategy called “assisted migration.” (Amanda Loman / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 29, 1952: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 190 rinks were curling in the Manitoba high school bonspiel, making it the world’s largest. In Ottawa, trade minister C.D. Howe touted Canada’s industrial advances in 1952 and predicted great propserity for Canadians in 1953. In a new series on Canada’s North, a Free Press correspondent travelled to Berens River and Flin Flon to chronicle new developments in Manitoba. A London newspaper defended Queen Elizabeth’s right to add to the Royal Family by having more children. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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