What’s happening today
Jean Claude Dianzenza, 61, died Friday after he was infected with the virus while working at Victoria General Hospital. (Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press files)
COVID-19 crisis: Manitoba’s chief public health officer will give an update on our coronavirus case numbers this afternoon. Dr. Brent Roussin’s mid-week news conference is today instead of Wednesday because of Remembrance Day. On Monday, he announced 365 new cases and that Manitoba had surpassed 5,000 active cases. The province also announced the first death of a health-care worker from the virus. Danielle Da Silva and Carol Sanders report. READ MORE
Survey find support for curfew: A survey released today found Manitoba has the highest level of support for a curfew if “the spread of the virus was serious enough.” Seventy-seven per cent of Manitobans are in support, compared with 67 per cent nationally. READ MORE
Pandemic hampers participation: Only 28 per cent of people will attend Remembrance Day ceremonies online or in person, down from 41 per cent last year, a poll released today found. Meanwhile, four in 10 Canadians think they know more about the military history of the U.S. than that of Canada. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Trial in Toronto: The trial for Alek Minassian, who has admitted in court to killing 10 people and injuring 16 others by driving a van on a Toronto sidewalk in April 2018, is set to begin today. The defence is expected to argue the accused is not criminally responsible for his actions. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of flurries until later this morning, a high of -5 C, a low of -10 C, wind chill as low as -16 this morning and peak winds from the southwest at 15 km/h.
In case you missed it
Toronto-based writer Souvankham Thammavongsa is the winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thammavongsa is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Sarah Bodri, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
First fiction nets top prize: Souvankham Thammavongsa, who was born in a Lao refugee camp in Thailand, won the Giller Prize Monday night for her short story debut, “How to Pronounce Knife.” “Thirty-six years ago, I went to school, and I pronounced the word ‘knife’ wrong,” she said from her Toronto home. “And I didn’t get a prize. But tonight there is one.” The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
More than “heroes”: In her latest column, Shelley Cook thanks teachers for giving students “a sense of normalcy during some of the strangest, abnormal times of their lives.” READ MORE
Future “so bright” for Bailey: Taylor Allen spoke with wide receiver Rasheed Bailey, who had hoped to play his first full season with the Blue Bombers after making 19 catches in seven games last year. “I knew what this year was going to be for me,” he said from Philadelphia. “I was doing everything possible to come back and be everything I wanted to be.” READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 10, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported that an international effort was underway in Washington, D.C. to follow up the Dawes restoration program with a renewed effort to restore world trade. Former prominent Winnipeg councilman John Wesley Cockburn died. Hope was abandoned of finding two missing Winnipeg sportsmen, who were believed to have drowned in Clandeboye Bay on Lake Manitoba. In Chicago, Ill., a rash of deaths was described as having been variously caused by “love, hate, passion, adventure, greed, despair and carelessness.”
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