Your forecast
Periods of light snow with a high of -4 C, wind chill as low as -23 and wind from the south at 30 km/h and gusting to 50, becoming west 20 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Usher in festive feelings tonight at 6:30 at the Pourium’s inaugural wreath-making class (942 Portage Ave.), where you’ll get a chance to sample three New and Old World wines — a white, a red and a rose — as you create a holiday wreath with guidance from Winnipeg floral boutique Addison Taylor Design. Tickets: $149 from the Pourium’s website.
The final Speaking Crow poetry night of 2024 takes place virtually tonight at 7 p.m. and will be hosted by Angeline Schellenberg. The long-running monthly poetry night won’t have a featured poet this time around; rather, it will be an all open-mic format, so tighten up your best three minutes of verse and register online here (even if you just want to watch).
Angeline Schellenberg (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Premier Wab Kinew ordered an end Monday to using jail to force people to undergo tuberculosis treatment after a Manitoba woman infected with the disease for a third time was detained for a month.
Kinew gave the direction to Dr. Brent Roussin Monday after public health officials ordered the detention of Geraldine Mason, a 36-year-old First Nations woman from God’s Lake First Nation in northern Manitoba, to treat her condition in late October.
Reporters Chris Kitching and Malak Abas have the story.
Geraldine Mason and her boyfriend, Clarence Hill, are headed back to Gods Lake Narrows Monday afternoon. Mason was incarcerated because she has tuberculosis. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
The reopening of Notre Dame this coming weekend is going to be a high-security affair, with a repeat of some measures used during the Paris Olympics and the sealing-off to tourists of the cathedral’s island location in the heart of the French capital.
After more than five years of reconstruction following the fire that devastated Notre Dame in 2019, invite-only ceremonies Saturday and Sunday will usher in its rebirth.
Police chief Laurent Nuñez said only people with invitations and the island’s residents will have access to the Île de la Cité in the middle of the River Seine, which includes Notre Dame and habitually hums with tourists. The Associated Press has more here.
The altar designed by French artist and designer Guillaume Bardet is seen in the heart of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, in Paris. (Stephane de Sakutin / Pool / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 3, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported in London, fears ran high that a coal miners’ strike in Scotland could spread throughout the coal fields of Great Britain. In Winnipeg, the Manitoba Liberal Association passed a resolution opposing the high tariff policy of the federal Conservative Party under prime minister R.B. Bennett. Brandon mayor Harry Cater issued a challenge at the meeting of the Association of Manitoba Municipalities to the validity of the municipal commissioner’s levy. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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