Your forecast
Maionly cloudy with a high of -4 C, and a 60 per cent chance this afternoon of flurries or freezing drizzle.
What’s happening today
The quarterfinal stage of the World Cup begins.
The Centennial Concert Hall lobby will see the second annual Luckygirl Pop-up market, from 4 to 9 p.m., featuring more than 120 local artisans, makers and creatives. This year, the market is in support of Velma’s House, a 24-hour safe space led by Ka Ni Kanichihk for at-risk women.
Today’s must-read
A heartbroken mother says her 27-year-old daughter, who died after being found in a Winnipeg bus shelter Monday, was a kind and outgoing person who had wanted to make changes to her life. When outreach workers found Kayla Rae lying under blankets on the floor of a heated Winnipeg Transit shelter at Goulet Street and Tache Avenue in St. Boniface, around 1:45 p.m. Monday, she was unresponsive. Chris Kitching has the story.
Kayla Rae (left), with her mother Joanne Rae (Supplied)
On this date
On Dec. 9, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Algiers, army tanks backed by troops and riot police crushed barricades thrown up by angry crowds protesting the arrival of French president Charles De Gaulle. Canada envisaged a big increase in its trade with Cuba, following bilateral meetings between the countries’ ministers. U.S. president-elect John F. Kennedy offered two-time Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson the position of U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. Search our archives for more here.
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