Your forecast
Cloudy, with snow beginning this morning and ending this afternoon, and wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50. Temperature falling to -1 C this afternoon, wind chill -10 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Jann Arden launches her novel The Bittlemores tonight at Knox United Church at 7 p.m. as part of a book tour with Rick Mercer, author of The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued… The launch, presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers, is sold out. Ben Sigurdson has more here.
Jann Arden (Alkan Emin photo)
Today’s must-read
Heather Stefanson is willing to make way for her successor at the top of Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party early in the new year, and that could include her seat in the legislature, if necessary.
The Tory leader, who was elected in Tuxedo for a seventh time despite her government’s defeat on Oct. 3, appeared in public Wednesday for just the second time since election night, when she announced her intention to resign the leadership but told supporters she’d stay on for an indeterminate period of time. Carol Sanders has the story.
Heather Stefanson, Leader of the Official Opposition (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
Sara and Kate Manness are in very elite company. The 16-year-old fraternal twins from La Salle represented Manitoba at the recent U18 women’s nationals in Dawson Creek, B.C., where Sara, a centre, was tied for the tournament lead with five goals in five games to earn MVP honours while Kate was rock solid on the blue line.
By the fall of 2024, the Grade 11 students will study and play hockey at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul after garnering interest from more than 30 NCAA Division I programs. Mike Sawatzky has more here.
Kate Manness (Supplied)
On this date
On Nov. 16, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported premier D.L. Campbell, professing full health and vigour, told delegates at the annual Liberal-Progressive convention he had no plans for early retirement. An 11-year-old Winnipeg girl was credited with saving the lives of her father and five brothers and sisters, when the family was overcome with coal gas; she was able to slide down the stairs and wake her father, who managed to open the windows in time. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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