Your forecast
Periods of light snow and local blowing snow will continue today, with the wind northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50. The temperature will fall to -11 C this afternoon with the windchill falling to -21 this afternoon.
People clear snow on a sidewalk along Westminster Avenue Sunday. (John Woods / Free Press)
What’s happening today
The Liberals are set to face a third Conservative non-confidence vote today, but the government is likely to survive with the support of the NDP, the Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
Alarm bells have been ringing at Winnipeg City Hall ahead of Wednesday’s 2025 budget update. It might be the annual doom and gloom dance, done to lower expectations before every budget announcement, but with the city’s rainy-day fund being emptied and a significant deficit projected, it does feel like this time the warnings are real.
The only immediate solution appears to be more tax dollars but asking taxpayers to take more money from their pockets is a Band-Aid that avoids addressing the core issue that got us here.
Winnipeg, like most Canadian cities, has been on an economic slippery slope for a long time. That slope is called suburban sprawl. The crippling infrastructure deficit and annual budget crunch at city hall can be directly linked to the city’s financially unsustainable, low-density growth patterns over the last 50 years.
Brent Bellamy examines how low density means fewer people are paying for more things.
On the bright side
Adhara Nayar started volunteering as a homework tutor with the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba in March and enjoys connecting with youth and IRCOM staff members.
“I appreciate how welcoming and inclusive everyone is,” says Nayar, 25. “The staff is very supportive and positive, and so are the students. I find the work very rewarding.” Aaron Epp has the story.
On this date
On Dec. 9, 1921: The Manitoba Free Press reported Conservative prime minister Arthur Meighen, whose government had just been defeated in the general election by William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Liberals, was expected to resign; a British newspaper offered a scathing view of Meighen’s performance and predicted the mantle of party leadership would fall to R.B. Bennett. In Tokyo, Japan said it agreed to the four-power pact including Japan, the United States, Britain and France, but it could not abrogate the existing Anglo-Japan alliance. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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