What you need to know
Jeff McIntosh / THE CANADIAN PRESSWinnipeg Blue Bombers’ Andrew Harris celebrates after the team defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Bombers cup-bound: The Blue Bombers are headed to their first Grey Cup since 2011 after beating the Roughriders in a nail-biter West Division final in Regina. The Bombers haven’t won the CFL championship since 1990 — the league’s longest active streak — and are 0-5 in the big game since then. They’ll face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who haven’t won the Grey Cup since 1999, this Sunday. Mike McIntyre has a column from Regina. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries and risk of freezing rain this morning, a 30 per cent chance of rain this afternoon, a high of 5 C, and wind from the south at 20 km/h decreasing to 15 km/h from the west this afternoon around noon.
What’s happening today
Chuck Lewis first approached the city with the idea four years ago but was rejected by officials, who claimed the province wouldn’t allow him to do it. (Phil Hossack / Free Press files)
At city hall: A committee will discuss motions to accept free flashing lights in school zones and amend a bylaw to require two-thirds of council to support designating any building a historic resource if the owner is opposed. Meanwhile, Maggie Macintosh has a story on possible budget cuts from a rare weekend meeting of a different city committee. READ MORE
Wage-freeze fight: A group of more than a dozen unions says it will present legal arguments against a Tory government bill that imposes a two-year wage freeze on public-sector workers. The unions say government negotiators have acted as though the bill, which has not been proclaimed, is the law. READ MORE
Probing soldier’s slaughter: An inquiry begins in the case of the deaths of Afghan war veteran Lionel Desmond and his family. Desmond killed his mother, wife and daughter before shooting himself in Nova Scotia in early 2017. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Mexico granted asylum to Morales, who resigned on Nov. 10, under mounting pressure from the military and the public after his re-election victory triggered weeks of fraud allegations and deadly protests. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Canada supports ‘coup’: In his latest column, Niigaan Sinclair criticizes the Ottawa’s decision to back an anti-Indigenous “coup d’état” in Bolivia. READ MORE
‘Thoroughly broken’: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has pledged to launch legal challenges across the country after a Manitoba judge called for an independent review of the way the justice system works in northern Manitoba. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Search for suspects: There have been no arrests after four people were fatally shot and six wounded when suspects opened fire at a backyard football party in Fresno, Calif., Sunday night. READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 18, 1912: The Manitoba Free Press reported that a surveyor for the national forestry department said there were at least two and a half million acres of swamp and muskeg in southeastern Manitoba that, if drained, would probably make splendid farmland; he also said he did not think the land suitable for a forestry reserve. In Europe, negotiations for an armistice between the Bulgarians and Turks had failed, and the Bulgarians opened new attacks against Turkish forces. READ MORE
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