What’s happening today
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA customer carries a big-screen TV past people lining up Thursday outside Best Buy on St. James Street. A provincial ban on selling non-essential goods to in-store shoppers started at 12:01 a.m. today.
COVID-19 crisis: New pandemic restrictions prohibiting most indoor social gatherings and in-person sales of non-essential items took effect at 12:01 a.m. As Temur Durrani reports, the provincial government is looking to Vermont as a model for its retail restrictions. Meanwhile, health officials will release their latest COVID-19 numbers at the daily news conference this afternoon. READ MORE
Supports for business: Finance Minister Scott Fielding and Economic Development and Training Minister Ralph Eichler are holding a news conference on “supports for business” this morning. The Free Press will have more on the announcement later this morning. READ MORE
Pandemic projections: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, will release new projections for the spread of COVID-19 this morning. As many as 60,000 new cases a day are expected by the end of 2020 if the spread can’t be contained. The news conference will take place outside Trudeau’s home, Rideau Cottage, where he gave briefings during the first wave of the pandemic this spring. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Set for summit: Trudeau will meet virtually with his counterparts, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump, during an online Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders’ summit. The PM is expected to pitch the economic benefits of fighting climate change. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Biden’s birthday: U.S. president-elect Joe Biden turns 78 today. He will become the oldest president when he is sworn into office in January, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was 77 years and 349 days old when he left office in 1989. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Periods of snow ending at about noon, then a mix of sun and cloud, with a high of -7 C, a daytime low of -9 C, wind chill as low as -17, and wind from the northwest at 20 km/h.
In case you missed it
SUPPLIEDGolden Links Lodge
Staffing crunch at care home: More than half of Golden Links Lodge’s 81 residents have tested positive for COVID-19, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority announced late Thursday night. A two-person team from the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service was scheduled to be at the not-for-profit personal care home, which is struggling with staffing problems, throughout the night. Golden Links Lodge asked the families of residents to send one person to sit beside their loved one and monitor them. READ MORE
CFL schedule: Sportsnet reported last night that the Canadian Football League is planning to release its 2021 schedule today. The report states that unlike past seasons, teams wouldn’t travel to face every opposing team, and that there would be fewer inter-division games. READ MORE
Ambassador meets with arrested men: Canada’s ambassador to China met virtually Thursday with Michael Kovrig, who has been detained in China for nearly two years, Global Affairs Canada announced. Dominic Barton also met with detained Canadian businessman Michael Spavor on Nov. 10, the news release states. Kovrig and Spavor have been held in China since late 2018, soon after Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 20, 1994: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that police were searching for a man after a teenage newspaper carrier was followed by a man first in a car and then on foot; she described his threatening behaviour and her attempts to escape him. In Zagreb, Serbian forces struck in government-held northwestern Bosnia, bombing an apartment house crowded with refugees; the United Nations authorized NATO to bomb Serbian forces from neighbouring Croatia. A Morden entrepreneur planned to hold a public test of his device to produce clean air in oxygen-starved environments by locking two politicians in a room and cutting off their air supply.
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