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A family in Inkster Gardens has been torn apart after a 54-year-old man was slain and his son has been charged.(Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press)
Son charged in slaying: A source says the victim and accused in Winnipeg’s record-setting 44th homicide of the year are father and son. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Periods of light snow ending late this morning and then cloudy, with a high of -9 C, wind from the northwest at 25 km/h gusting to 40 and increasing to 30 km/h gusting to 50, and wind chill as low as -20. Meanwhile, RCMP say two people died of exposure in unrelated cases Saturday. Ryan Thorpe reports.
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Looking back, forward
Mayor Brian Bowman
International issue: Climate change was the most important global story of the year, Free Press readers voted. Melissa Martin has more. READ MORE
Looking back, forward: The Free Press sat down with Mayor Brian Bowman this month to discuss 2019 and look ahead to 2020. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports.
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Staying static: Home prices in Winnipeg will remain largely unchanged in 2020, Royal LePage says. Solomon Israel reports.
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What’s happening today
University of Manitoba Bisons’ Kearley Abbott (5) scores the point off this spike against McMaster Mauraders’ Jessie Nairn (7) in the 2019 Wesmen Classic at the University of Winnipeg in Winnipeg Sunday. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
Cross-Canada competition: The University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg will meet in the championship of the first women’s volleyball edition of a Wesmen Classic tournament. They play at the Duckworth Centre at 3 p.m. Taylor Allen reports.
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Airstrikes kill 25: At least 25 people were killed by U.S. military strikes against an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq and Syria. Kataeb Hezbollah says it will seek revenge for the “aggression of evil American ravens.”
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Suspects seized: Turkey has arrested more than 120 people, including at least 33 foreigners, suspected of links to the Islamic State group, the country’s state-run news agency says.
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Death sentences in Sudan: A court in Sudan has sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a protester during an uprising against then-dictator Omar al-Bashir. READ MORE
On this date
Dec. 30, 2004: The Red Cross predicted they could surpass $100,00 in donations towards the relief effort in Indonesia after the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami rose to near 77,000 people; and the Manitoba-U.S. border reopened to cattle. READ MORE
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