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WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS filesWinnipeg School Division is discussing the idea of having naloxone kits in case of an emergency involving an opioid overdose.
Opioid overdoses 101: Winnipeg School Division is considering stocking its schools with the antidote naloxone in case any student suffers an opioid overdose. “It may be something we deem as a good idea, as part of a first aid kit,” trustee Lisa Naylor said Thursday. She’s unaware of any student overdosing on opioids in school. Nick Martin reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: There’s a certain calm before the storm that is expected to roll in Christmas Day and Boxing Day, bringing a Colorado Low dump of snow and blizzard-like conditions. Today’s weather will be wonderfully unexciting: mainly sunny, with a high of -6 C.
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Supplied photoLydia Whitford
Teen’s death suspicious: Police and social-service workers were told Lydia Whitford, an 18-year-old woman with autism, was “severely bruised” when she died in foster care in July, says Cora Morgan, Manitoba’s First Nations advocate for children in care. She wonders why it took five months for RCMP to announce they are investigating the death as a homicide. Courtney Bannatyne reports. READ MORE
Unprotecting a special island: The chief of Sapotaweyak Cree Nation is threatening legal action after the provincial government decided to yank Pemmican Island’s protected status and open it for possible mining. The province allowed the island’s park reserve designation to “expire” as of Dec. 14, clearing the way for mining exploration on the island located about 175 kilometres north of Dauphin. READ MORE
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Zoo free for kids: Beginning today and lasting until Jan. 8, the Assiniboine Park Zoo is offering free admission for children 12 and under. Also, the duck pond at the park is iced over and ready for skaters to twirl and swirl.
Looking ahead: With a winter storm bearing down on southern Manitoba for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, perhaps we can all pledge to let the storm bring out the best. Let’s help push the vehicles of drivers who are stuck, shovel the walks of neighbors who are elderly, summon tolerance for relatives who drink too much and get irritating. Let’s be grateful for central heating, for city crews that plough streets, for technology that lets us Skype festive greetings to faraway friends and family. When you see that grouchy neighbour who never talks to you? Take the high road and shout “Merry Christmas!”
Around the water cooler
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSFrom left, Joanne Roach, Jeannie Hiebert and Calla Lofvendahl busy themselves Thursday in the formal dining room at Dalnavert House, after it has been set for a holiday feast.
A Victorian Christmas: Reporter Bill Redekop was in a light-hearted mood on Thursday when he visited Dalnavert Museum, which is decorated in Victorian-era festive finery. His story starts, “In 1895, when Santa Claus was still very old although not any older than today, the jolly one faced what became known as the Dalnavert Dilemma …” READ MORE
Sexual-harassment repentance: MLA Mohinder Saran is undergoing sensitivity training in workplace behaviour and expects the NDP will lift his suspension and allow him back into caucus. His workplace sin was apparently verbal sexual-harassment, but no one is offering more details publicly. Kristin Annable reports. READ MORE
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DARYYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESSDARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESSNikolaj Ehlers, Mark Scheifele, Patrik Laine and Toby Enstrom celebrate Laine’s second-period goal against the Vancouver Canucks Thursday night.
#Canucks: Why is the Vancouver hockey team trending in Winnipeg? Because the Jets turned around a game that started with the Jets giving up a goal, storming back to win over the Canucks 4-1. READ MORE
Happy holidays: Trending as Twitter users share the festive spirit heading into the weekend.
On this date
On Dec. 23, 1987: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that U.S. researchers speculated on the reasons for Santa Claus’s centuries-old longevity. MPI announced that Autopac was raising its rates by 24 per cent. Members of the Slobonski Brothers baseball team helped raise money for the Winnipeg Cheer Board by staging a hot tub outside a Portage Avenue night club. Winnipeg moviegoers could see such films as Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Eddie Murphy: Raw, Cinderella, and Throw Momma From the Train. READ MORE
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