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A train crosses Community Row close to Wilkes Avenue Monday afternoon.
190107 – Monday, January 07, 2019.
Tired train crews: In the final part of his series on rail safety, Dylan Robertson reports on exhausted workers unable to take rest breaks. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: There’s a high probability of light snow all day, with blowing snow in open areas, wind from the northwest at 40 km/h gusting to 60, a high of -10 C and wind chill as low as -24 late this afternoon.
What’s happening today
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after a meeting with Congressional leaders on border security as the government shutdown continues Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump on TV: Donald Trump will make his first address from the Oval Office in a prime-time telecast tonight. The U.S. president will make his case for allocating funds to build a border wall before ending the partial government shutdown. READ MORE
China chat: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expected to meet with China’s president in Beijing as part of a four-day visit. The trip comes as the U.S. and Kim look to settle North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. READ MORE
Scoring struggle: The Jets host the Colorado Avalanche at 7 p.m. Jeff Hamilton reports on the team’s slumping power play. READ MORE
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESDan Taylor, 37, has been sentenced to a total of seven months in jail for brazenly walking out of numerous Winnipeg Liquor Marts with bottles of alcohol that he didn’t pay for.
Brazen booze thefts: A 37-year-old man will spend another four months in jail for grabbing liquor bottles off store shelves and walking out. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Pipeline protest: RCMP arrested 14 people Monday at a road blockade preventing access to a pipeline project in British Columbia. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 8, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported that due to a severe shortage of paper, the newspaper would forgo publishing certain features and departments temporarily and concentrate on printing chiefly the news of the day. The federal government was expected to extend a program to support ship-building for Canada’s merchant marine. In Brandon, Manitoba cattle producers decided after much debate that the cattle auction should take place in the spring and that only bulls would be sold. In Belfast, the police had been equipped with Lewis guns in their movements against members of Sinn Fein, according to reporting from London.
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