What’s happening today
THE CANADIAN PRESS/John WoodsManitobans got a look at the province’s new COVID-19 vaccination centre at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, Friday. The centre will open Monday and will inoculate 900-1200 people in its first week.
Super-site set to open: The province’s new COVID-19 vaccination site opens at the downtown convention centre this morning. The phone line for booking appointments is open for eligible health-care workers. Meanwhile, Maggie Macintosh reports on how more than 800 people with appointments for today received misleading texts about getting their shots at the now-shuttered site the super-site is replacing. READ MORE
COVID-19 news conference: Manitoba health officials will announce the latest COVID-19 numbers this afternoon. It will be only the fourth news conference where officials appear in person in the past two weeks. The government announced five deaths and 101 new cases of the virus Sunday.
Training camp continues: Training camp for the upcoming Winnipeg Jets season started Sunday, but players take the ice for the first time this morning. Here is Mike McIntyre’s latest column. READ MORE
Canada vs. Russia: Team Canada faces Russia at the world junior hockey championships at 5 p.m., while Finland faces the U.S. tonight. The winners will play for the gold medal Tuesday night. READ MORE
Trump on tape: U.S. President Donald Trump and president-elect Joe Biden are both holding rallies in Georgia today before Tuesday’s runoff election for two Senate seats in Georgia. The election will decide the balance of power in the Senate. Meanwhile, a recording of Trump pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes for him to win the southern state’s presidential vote emerged over the weekend. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny with a high of 1 C, with wind chill as low as -7 this morning and wind at 20 km/h.
In case you missed it
Colin Corneau / Brandon Sun filesDavid McLaughlin, clerk of the executive council, was hired last May.
Where top civil servant spent holidays: Premier Brian Pallister’s staff confirmed Sunday that his chief civil servant, David McLaughlin, spent Christmas working remotely “from his immediate family’s home” in Ottawa despite recommendations against unnecessary travel because of the pandemic. Blake Robert said in an email that McLaughlin was not on vacation and that “it would be grossly inaccurate for such a narrative to be propagated.” Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Camps on Christmas: The ninth and final chapter of our series on homelessness, Life on the Strip, is focused on what remained of the camps on Christmas Day. The article appears in the arts section of today’s paper. READ MORE
Hoodie brings warmth: Shelley Cook’s latest column is on buying a clothing item she wanted for more than half her life. READ MORE
The trouble with TikTok: The Canadian Armed Forces have resisted using the social-media app TikTok because of security concerns about the company’s Chinese ownership and unclear censorship rules, an email obtained through a freedom-of-information request states. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 4, 1958: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Winnipeg mayor Stephen Juba said he had had to intervene in the city engineering department’s concrete purchasing policy because he was given evidence that the company offering the lowest prices was being discriminated against; Juba had a mimeographed instruction sheet that directed city foremen which concrete suppliers to purchase from. In New York, a former Confidential editor and turncoat Communist fatally shot his wife and then killed himself while riding in a taxi cab. The Duchess of Windsor and Audrey Hepburn were among those deemed the best-dressed women of 1957.
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