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Mainly cloudy with a high of 6 C and wind from the southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h this morning.
What’s happening today
Juno Award-winning country singer Jess Moskaluke will perform songs from her newly released album, A Small Town Christmas, as well as her hits, at Club Regent Event Centre at 7 p.m. For ticket information, click here.
Kids in the Hall co-founder Kevin McDonald hosts a screening of Rob Reiner’s 1982 rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap tonight at Dave Barber Cinematheque. Tickets are $6-$10 at wfp.to/66A.
The Winnipeg Jets face the Colorado Avalanche at the Ball Arena, starting at 8 p.m. Sports reporter Mike McIntyre dives into four burning questions ahead of the team’s weeklong road trip.
Today’s must-read
Canadians are spending less on food despite inflation — and in Manitoba, the prices will keep rising, according to a new report.
Manitoba’s overall rate of food inflation was 5.7 per cent year-over-year in 2023.
“I think, really, consumers retreated. If you’re paying more for your mortgage and your rent, it’s easier to trade down at the grocery store,” said Sylvain Charlebois, co-author of the report and director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.
Gabrielle Piché reports.
Climate change, energy costs, inflation, consumer indebtedness and disposable income are among the factors that could significantly impact food prices in the coming year, the report highlights. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Last month Bill Pchajek was living in a cardboard-insulated shack that he built near Empress Street.
Less than a week after erecting the structure, support workers from St. Boniface Street Links secured housing for Pchajek.
Free Press reporter Tyler Searle checks in with Pchajek as he settles into his new apartment. Read more.
Bill Pchajek in his new apartment in the Earl Grey neighbourhood. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 7, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a judge in county court upheld the conviction mad by a Winnipeg magistrate’s court against Loblaw Groceries for issuing trading stamps and dismissed the company’s appeal. The Saskatchewan government attacked a CPR-CNR plan for a government subsidy to offset rail losses in hauling grain for export at low statutory rates. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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