Your forecast
Snow beginning this afternoon with a high of -5 C and a low of -8.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg author Tasha Spillett-Sumner launches her new book for young readers and parents, Beautiful You, Beautiful Me, at 6:30 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location. For more information, click here.
Tasha Spillett-Sumner (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba hospital workers have breached patients’ privacy more than 1,000 times in the last three years — but how many were disciplined and what consequences they faced is unclear. It’s an issue one ethicist calls “alarming,” saying the public deserves to know more about workers snooping into sensitive files. Katrina Clarke has the story.
Brandon Regional Health Centre recorded 85 breaches in 2021, up from 24 and 21 in 2019 and 2020, respectively. (Brandon Sun files)
On the bright side
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced it will rename one of its cinemas to honour civil rights activist Viola Desmond, as well as pledging to raise $2 million over the next five years to provide support to Black women creators. The Canadian Press reports.
The late Wanda Robson speaks about her sister, civil rights activist Viola Desmond, in 2016. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 10, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that 11 federal seats could change hands as votes from members of the armed services came in and were counted, following civilian votes tabulated in the federal election; the Liberals, already victorious, were favoured to make gains. A massive power blackout affecting 80,000 square miles in the northeastern U.S. and part of Ontario came to an end; its causes were unknown, prompting comparisons to a similar blackout in Manitoba in 1958. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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