Good morning!
Put away the parkas and don’t reach for the snow shovel. It will be unseasonably mild today and throughout the weekend, and the precipitation possible on Monday could be rain instead of snow.According to Environment Canada, the warming weather continues today with sunshine and a high of 3 C. Yes, that’s plus 3. Wind from the south will be 20 km/h, increasing to 40 with strong gusts in the afternoon.Saturday will also be a high of 3C and sunny. Sunday will be a high of 4 C with increasing cloudiness. And Monday will be a high of 3 C, with clouds and a 40 per cent chance of rain.
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Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free PressPremier Greg Selinger takes questions from the media at the University of Winnipeg Thursday after launching the province’s new plan to address climate change and create green jobs.
Big promises: Manitoba will help save the planet by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by a third by 2030 and become a carbon-neutral province in 2080, Premier Greg Selinger said on Thursday. Is such an optimistic target realistic? Not if Manitoba history is a guide. In 2008, the NDP government pledged to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by six per cent below the 1990 level by 2012 which would have taken greenhouse gas emissions down to 17.6 megatons of carbon dioxide. Instead, provincial emissions rose to 21.4 megatons by 2013, when the NDP government conceded there was no way to meet its previous pledge. READ MORE
Kidney crisis: A study released Thursday shows kidney failure affects more people in Manitoba per capita than in any other province. The study by University of Manitoba’s Centre for Health Policy shows more than 1,800 Manitobans are living with kidney failure. The problem is particularly acute in rural and northern areas, where rates of the disease are two to three times higher than for the province as a whole because of poverty, challenges to obtain proper nutrition and poor medical care. READ MORE
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Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS FilesA woman puts on a white ribbon in 2011 to mark the anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre.
Remembering L’Ecole Polytechnique: There are several events today remembering the 14 women who were murdered at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989, and honouring all women who have lost their lives to violence, including nine women in Manitoba this past year. A public event from 8 to 10 a.m. in the Rotunda of the Legislative Building will include a panel discussion on sexual violence on campus with students from post-secondary schools. The Manitoba Federation of Labour Women’s Committee holds its annual memorial luncheon at the Union Centre Auditorium, 275 Broadway Avenue, beginning at 11:45 a.m. And, a quilt in honour of missing and murdered indigenous women will be unveiled today at 7 p.m. at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The quilt was made by families of missing and murdered women across Canada.
Supporting local artists: There are likely people on your gift list who deserve better than a mass-manufactured item from a chain store. For gifts that are innovative and unique, the Winnipeg artists and craftspeople in the Exchange will show their wares today from 5 to 9 p.m. in a monthly event called First Fridays, an event that lets shoppers talk to artists in their studios, attend gallery openings and purchase crafts that are one-of-a-kind. More details athttp://www.firstfridayswinnipeg.org/ READ MORE
Around the water cooler
ADRIAN WYLD / THE CANADIAN PRESSDemocratic Reform Minister Maryam Monsef said the Senate has to change.
So you want to be a senator: No, not an NHL player – a member of Canada’s upper chamber. As the federal government unveiled its plans for Senate reform Thursday, it included a call for everyday Canadians to submit their resumés. In addition to other requirements, new senators must actually have lived in the province they will represent for at least two years before their appointment. READ MORE
Attracting our ears: Winnipeg radio ratings for autumn came out on Thursday, and it shows CBC Radio One continues to increase its lead over 680 CJOB, which used to be tops in this market. Here are the top five radio stations in Winnipeg, with the numbers indicating their share of listeners: 1. CBC Radio One — 15.3; 2) 680 CJOB — 10.9; 3) 92 CITI FM — 9.4; 4) 103.1 Virgin Radio — 9.0; 5) QX 104 — 7.4.) READ MORE
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MARK J. TERRILL / The Associated Press FilesSinger Scott Weiland, left, in 2004 with Slash in Velvet Revolver. Weiland has died at the age of 48.
Scott Weiland: The former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman died in his sleep Thursday night at the age of 48 in Bloomington, Minn. He had been on tour with his latest band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts. While singer for Stone Temple Pilots, Weiland saw great success in the early 1990s. The band’s 1992 debut “Core” has sold 8 million copies. He later sang for Velvet Revolver, a supergroup that also featured former members of Guns ‘N’ Roses. READ MORE
Skills Competition: The Winnipeg Jets held their fourth annual skills competition at the MTS Centre, and though defenceman Ben Chiarot may not have surpassed the NHL slapshot record of 108.8 m.p.h. — set by Boston Bruins behemoth Zdeno Chara — he ably held on to his team title with a 107.7 m.p.h. cannon blast. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 4, 1984: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that telephone operators were told they can be more friendly with customers – they were allowed to greet customers with “Good morning,” rather than the more concise “Directory Assistance.” The Crown urged the Supreme Court to restore the second-degree murder conviction of Thomas Sophonow, who was tried three times for the 1981 murder of doughnut-shop clerk Barbara Stoppel. (Sophonow was acquitted in 1985, and in 2000 police announced that evidence exonerated him in the case.) Officials in India feared as many as 1,000 people were dead following a poisonous gas leak at a U.S.-built pesticide plant in Bhopal. (The official immediate death toll was eventually tallied at 2,259, while as many as 16,000 were estimated to have succumbed to later effects of the gas leak.)
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