Your forecast
Light snow ending early this morning with a high of 0 and a low of -8C .
What’s happening today
Top government ministers will continue testifying today at the Public Order Emergency Commission.
A major rescue operation is underway off the coast of Crete, Greece, after a boat believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants lost steering and was drifting in rough seas.
Today’s must-read
Driven by voices he could neither ignore nor control, Karlton Dean Reimer stabbed strangers Dennis and Bernadette Lidgett to death in their Lorette-area home. Reimer has admitted to stabbing the elderly couple, but in a Monday ruling jointly endorsed by Crown prosecutors and his defence lawyers, was found not criminally responsible for the March 2021 killings. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Dennis and Bernadette Lidgett were stabbed to death in their Lorette-area home. (Facebook)
On the bright side
A Holland-area poultry farmer is among the producers who helped Manitoba Egg Farmers break the record for most eggs donated to Harvest Manitoba in a single month. Miranda Leybourne reports.
Volunteers with Harvest Manitoba and Manitoba Egg Farmers work to unload eggs at one of the food bank network’s warehouses. (Submitted)
On this date
On Nov. 22, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Sadie Hawkins Day in Winnipeg had grown to “fantastic proportions” and that spending would likely surpass that of New Year’s Eve. Winnipeg Blue Bombers general manager Bill Boivin said the team had received enough “good luck” telegrams to “paper the roof of Edmonton’s biggest hotel” ahead of the Western Interprovincial Football Union series. Prime minister John Diefenbaker told the House of Commons he would share secret details of the integrated defence arrangements between Canada and the U.S., if the Opposition Liberals insisted.
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