Your forecast
Cloudy with a mix of sun and cloud later this morning and a high of 4 C, wind chill as low as – 8 C and wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h.
What’s happening today
It’s election day for the Assembly of First Nations.
The Bank of Canada is set to announce its interest rate decision this morning as forecasters widely expect the central bank to continue holding its key rate steady.
Today’s must-read
After nearly 80 years, Kromar Printing Ltd. has closed its doors, leaving a massive building vacant on the edge of the city’s downtown core.
Digitization and the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the company’s stability, and the collapse of the planned sale of the building at 725 Portage Ave. was the final nail in the coffin, director and chief financial officer Joseph Cohen told the Free Press Tuesday.
Nicole Buffie has the story.
The near 118,000 square-foot space will sit mostly empty at the edge of Winnipeg’s West End. A local historian said finding new occupants will be a challenge. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend, wildlife officials said.
Thousands of pounds of lettuce were fed to manatees that typically gather in winter months near the warm-water discharge of a power plant on Florida’s east coast. State and federal wildlife officials launched the program after pollution killed off vast seagrass beds, leading to a record of over 1,100 manatee deaths in 2021. The Associated Press reports.
A group of manatees in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Lynne Sladky / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Dec. 6, 1949: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, foreign affairs minister Lester Pearson said reports Canadian uranium ore had been shipped to Russia in 1943 were leading to sensational and unfounded implications. In Winnipeg, counterfeit $10 bills were being spotted by retailers, having come from rural stores and other businesses without being noticed. Crime comics would be unvailable in Manitoba, said a Crown prosectuor, as soon as a law under consideration by Parliament governing the publications’ distribution was passed. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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