Good morning!
Your forecast: Judging by this week’s forecast, we’re going to need all the warmth from the holiday season we can get. Today won’t be so bad. We’re looking at a cloudy day, with a 30 per cent chance of flurries in the afternoon a south breeze at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h and a high of -9 C. And it actually warms up Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with daytime temperatures in the minus single digits. But Environment Canada is calling for a very cold Christmas Eve, with an overnight low of -19 C, a high of just -15 C on Christmas Day and a daytime high of -14 C on Boxing Day.
In case you missed it
Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free PressA very happy Ahlam Dib serves cookies and coffee to the crowd of volunteers that arrived at her new home in Altona to welcome her and her husband and their seven children.
Welcome to Manitoba, Altona style: Free Press reporter Alexandra Paul and photographer Mike Deal travelled to Altona on Sunday and found out Manitoba’s newest citizens felt safe and slept well in their new home. The nine members of the Daas family were among 17 Syrians who arrived Saturday in Winnipeg, the first wave of 2,000 refugees expected to arrive in Manitoba by February. READ MORE
Big transfer cash: Manitoba will receive a 2.6 per cent bump in its annual transfer payments from the federal government for the next fiscal year. Finance Minister Greg Dewar confirmed on Sunday that Manitoba will receive a total of $3.522 billion in transfers, which is $89.6 million more than the province received the year before. READ MORE
Working to keep families together: With Manitoba child welfare professionals seizing an average of one newborn baby each day — one of the highest apprehension rates in Canada — the Ma Mawi Wi Itata runs two family group conferencing programs to try to keep indigenous children out of the system and in culturally appropriate foster homes. READ MORE
Up next
Trevor Hagan / The Canadian PressWinnipeg Jets’ Blake Wheeler (26), Bryan Little (18), Andrew Ladd (16) and Tyler Myers (57) celebrate after Ladd scored an empty net goal against the New York Rangers during third period NHL hockey action in Winnipeg.
Canadian competition: The Winnipeg Jets travel to Alberta to play games on back-to-back nights before the NHL takes a break for the holidays. The Jets (15-15-2) take on the Edmonton Oilers tonight and then head to Calgary to face the flames on Tuesday. The last time they were on the ice, the Jets posted a 5-2 triumph over the New York Rangers.
Around the water cooler
John Locher / The Associated PressFormer Miss Universe Paulina Vega, center, takes away the flowers and sash from Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez, left, before giving it to Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, right, at the Miss Universe pageant Sunday.
Can you say awkward: Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey, a comedian and game show host, has apologized after his massive mistake at Sunday night’s pageant in Las Vegas. With just two contestants left, Harvey read a card wrong and incorrectly announced that Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo won the crown. In fact, he was supposed to say she was the first runner-up, and that Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, had won. After he apologized, Wurtzbach walked to the front of the stage and stood beside Arevalo, who was already wearing the crown. READ MORE
Sanheim on Team Canada: Elkhorn’s Travis Sanheim, a defenceman with the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen, cracked Team Canada’s 23-player roster for the upcoming the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Finland. Brandon Wheat Kings general manager and head coach Kelly McCrimmon will serve as an assistant coach. Canada opens the tournament against the United States on Dec. 26. READ MORE
Trending now
Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group/MCTBear trap: fine for bears, not so friendly for Santa.
#BadThingsToLeaveOutForSanta: A lot of people are making the naughty list after some tweets with this hash tag. A few suggestions? Spoiled milk, a bear trap, booze and a burrito from Chipotle are just a few we can mention on the website of a family newspaper.
#WWEWinnipeg: Nothing like body slams and boots to the head to excite thousands of fans on a Sunday night! WWE Wrestling returned to MTS Centre for a show as part of its holiday tour.
On this date
On Dec. 21, 1887: The Manitoba Daily Free Press reported that Canadian Pacific Railway vice-president Van Horne was questioned at length by the railway commission regarding rates, and he declared a fixed tariff impractical. “That portion of his evidence which will undoubtedly be of the most interest to the people of Manitoba,” the paper reported, “was in regard to railway legislation, about which Van Horne should have learned a little during the course of the past summer. He seems at any rate to have profited by his experience.” Van Horne went on to say that the notion of existing railways being protected by legislation against the building of new ones was “an Old World fallacy.” The Free Press reported: “Yes, Mr. Van Horne actually said this. But then, evidently thinking he had put his foot in it he added, ‘I may appear to be inconsistent in advocating freedom in railway building while the C.P.R. is enjoying certain protection in the Northwest…'”
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