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Mainly cloudy, with snow beginning this morning, 2 to 4 cm. Wind becoming east at 20 km/h near noon. High -7 C, wind chill -23 this morning and -14 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets host the Dallas Stars at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg Transit expects to earn $8.5 million less in fares than its budget predicted this year as fewer people have been taking the bus.
During a public works meeting on Monday, committee members were told the number of riders fell to 89 per cent of 2019 levels as of Nov. 30 this year. That’s down from 95 per cent of 2019 (pre-pandemic levels) throughout 2024.
Annual ridership reached 48,770,208 in 2019, the city’s website says.
“The issue that we continue to struggle with is the erosion of fare revenue and this year’s forecast is to be under budget by $8.5 million… We did not anticipate the extent to which we have realized lower ridership numbers,” Laurie Fisher, Winnipeg Transit’s finance manager, told the committee. Joyanne Pursaga and Malak Abas have the story.
Winnipeg Transit riders make their way in the new transit system on Portage in June. (John Woods / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Popcorn, candy and… Hamm?
Griffin Levenec, who owns The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall with other members of his family, thought he might be seeing things a few minutes before the lights went down for Sunday evening’s 7:30 screening of The Running Man.
“Jon Hamm came in first, and I thought, ‘He kind of looks like Jon Hamm,’ and then Johnny Pemberton walked in and I thought, ‘There’s no way two guys can come in who look like Jon Hamm and Johnny Pemberton and not be them,’” Levenec said Monday. Kevin Rollason has more here.
Actor Paul Walter Hauser (from left), Griffin Levenec (theatre co-owner), and actors Jon Hamm and Johnny Pembleton visited The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall over the weekend to see the film The Running Man. (Ryley Buchalter photo)
On this date
On Dec. 9, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported the general manager of the Canadian Co-operative of Wheat Producers, Ltd., announced the pool was reversing its policy of direct selling overseas, which meant the withdrawal of its agents abroad and closing its agencies in London, Paris and other centres. An important air mail conference was being held in Winnipeg, and the expected outcome was that the city would be put within five and a half days’ flying time of London, England. Search our archives for more here.
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