Your forecast
Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud. High 8 C, UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
After a career-long omission and a year-long delay, Bruce Springsteen is set to perform in Winnipeg for the first time tonight (Canada Life Centre, 7:30 p.m.). Eva Wasney talks to fans of The Boss already lining up outside; you can read her story here.
Aussie Graham Atkinson checks fellow Bruce Springsteen fans in for a roll call, for a spot in the front rows, at Canada Life Centre Tuesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Hailing from Grande Prairie, Alta., country singer-songwriter Tenille Townes, now based in Nashville, is making her way across Canada on her Thing That Brought Me Here headlining tour, which stops at the Burton Cummings Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30.70 to $72 plus fees at Ticketmaster.
Tenille Townes (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Some tenants who were displaced when a St. James apartment block was deemed structurally unsafe six months ago are still living in hotels at the Manitoba government’s expense.
Carol Lynch and other Birchwood Terrace evacuees have questioned why taxpayers are covering the cost of hotel rooms instead of property owner Ladco Co. Ltd. “It’s (the company’s) problem. Why should the province pay?” Lynch told the Free Press Tuesday.
Some 250 tenants were forced to leave the building at 2440 Portage Ave. with little notice May 9 due to structural damage to steel supports in an underground parkade. Lynch and her dog, Trixie, have been in hotel rooms since then. Chris Kitching has the story.
Carol Lynch hoped to be back home by now, but the return date to Birchwood Terrace kept getting pushed back. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Winnipeg non-profit organizations are hoping for a sleighful of donations so vulnerable residents can receive a gift on Christmas morning.
Hygiene products, candy, clothing and “fun stuff” are on Main Street Project’s wish list until mid-December, when the donations will be stuffed into gift bags and doled out to people accessing programming and those living in homeless encampments.
“It is important for us to be able to offer a gift to the folks that we serve. It does show care and compassion, and it does remind them that people care about them,” said executive director Cindy Titus. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Main Street Project executive director Cindy Titus says giving presents to vulnerable Winnipeggers reminds them there are people in the city who care for them. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 13, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa trade minister James MacKinnon, upon return from a 13-country trade mission, said all of them were clamouring for Canadian goods, from flour and wheat to railway locomotives and agricultural machinery. Britain opposed the U.S.-Soviet plan for partitioning Palestine, unwilling to accept use of force to enact the plan. Canada, acting on a request from the U.S., moved to prohibit the importation of American rye. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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