Your forecast
Cloudy, with 60 per cent chance of flurries late this morning and early this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -3, wind chill -15 this morning and -7 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Travel writer Donna Janke will chat with Winnipeg photographer Gindalee Ouskun about their book 111 Places in Winnipeg That You Must Not Miss. McNally Robinson (Grant Park location), 7 p.m. For more information, click here.
The Winnipeg Jets face the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena, starting at 6 p.m.
Mike McIntyre takes a look at what’s ahead for the Jets as they start a six-game road swing.
Kyle Connor says road trips are a good time for the players to come together as a team. (Fred Greenslade / The Canadian Press)
Today’s must-read
Irene Kroeker and her colleagues are often left disappointed and frustrated when drug addicts come to them in search of treatment in one of Manitoba’s biggest cities.
Kroeker, founder and executive director of Steinbach Community Outreach, said the lack of options in the southeastern city prevents some of her clients from receiving local or timely help.
“I am personally not very happy that we have to go outside of our city limits to access help for people,” Kroeker said. “We’re the third-largest city in Manitoba. Why don’t we have (additional services) in Steinbach?”
The situation isn’t unique to Steinbach amid a Manitoba-wide toxic drug crisis that started building years ago. Chris Kitching has the story.
Used needles found in the community of Swan River. (Supplied)
On the bright side
The Canadian Space Agency announced a competition this week to name Canada’s first-ever rover mission to the moon. This unmanned mission will explore the south polar region of the moon to search for water ice and explore its unique geology.
Professor and planetary geologist Gordon Osinski is the principal investigator for Canada’s first rover mission to the moon and a member of the science team for the upcoming Artemis III mission. Read his overview of Canada’s lunar voyage, and the proposed names for the rover mission, here.
The crew of the Artemis II, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, third from left, and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch and Reid Wiseman, with Canada’s lunar rover in 2023. (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 22, 1978: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba government said it would take whatever steps necessary to reopen liquor outlets before Christmas if striking liquor workers did not accept the province’s final contract offer. In Brandon, court heard testimony from an RCMP officer that a man charged with murder gave his occupation as “killer” when being fingerprinted at RCMP headquarters there. Passengers on a Toronto-Winnipeg Greyhound bus that broke down near Falcon Lake found themselves having to spend the night inside a locked Winnipeg bus depot. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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