What you need to know
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The Manitoba Legislature is lit up to celebrate Manitoba 150 in early December 2019.
Expensive anniversary: A poll for the Free Press found 41 per cent of Manitobans think the $50 million earmarked for Manitoba’s 150th anniversary is too much. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Cold case: Denise Pochinko is using social media in a bid to find out who stabbed her mother, Jackaleen Dyck, to death in 1980. READ MORE
Weather
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE FILESA tree limb lies over a car on Craig Street in Wolseley in Winnipeg following a record snowfall that damaged trees all over the city.
Your forecast: Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries, a high of -4 C, wind from the northwest at 20 km/h decreasing to 10 km/h from the southwest, and wind chill as low as -13. Meanwhile, Maggie Macintosh reports on the erratic weather Manitoba experienced last year. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Idle No More protestors close down Winnipeg’s major intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street in 2012. (John Woods / Free Press files)
Disappointing decade: In his latest column, Niigaan Sinclair says a decade that once held much promise for Indigenous people ended in familiar disappointment. READ MORE
Helicopter crash: Eight people, including Taiwan’s top military official, were killed in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area outside Taipei. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
In sports
FILE – In this June 28, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees great Don Larsen reacts during a news conference announcing the auction of his 1956 perfect game uniform, in New York. Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory in 1956 for the New York Yankees when he threw a perfect game and only no-hitter in World Series history, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. He was 90. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Pitcher perfect: Don Larsen, who pitched a perfect game and the only no-hitter in World Series history for the New York Yankees in 1956, has died. READ MORE
Canada in quarter-final: Team Canada faces Slovakia at the world junior hockey tournament at 7:30 a.m. CT. Alex Lafreniere, who was injured in a loss to Russia, will be in the lineup.
Match vs. Maple Leafs: The Jets host the surging Toronto Maple Leafs at Bell MTS Place at 7 p.m. Mike McIntyre reports on Kyle Connor, whose New Year’s Eve hat trick has the Jets winger on pace to reach the 40-goal mark for the first time. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 2, 1915: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Britain would maintain six armies on the front in the Great War. The British warship Formidable was blown up in the English Channel; while it was uncertain whether the ship had been destroyed by a torpedo or a mine, the loss was seen as a disaster. Along the Western Front, the French military asserted the war remained a battle of big guns, with artillery playing a major role. READ MORE
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