Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries. Wind from the northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40. High -5 C, wind chill near -15.
What’s happening today
📚 TSN senior correspondent Rick Westhead launches his new book We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location, where he’ll be joined in conversation by Free Press sports and investigative journalist Jeff Hamilton. Read Jeff’s review of the book here.
🖼️ Weaving personal stories of displacement and resilience into bold visual narratives Syria-born Kurdish artist Bîstyek’s exhibition Forbidden Colours opens tonight at Ilavut, WAG-Qaumajuq, 300 Memorial Boulevard, 7-10 p.m. with a feature documentary screening followed by a conversation between the artist and documentary director.
When I Go Outside, directed by Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker Geordie Sabbagh, follows Bîstyek as he develops his artistic style after leaving his job to become a full-time artist. Admission is free and doors open at 6:30 p.m.
🎄 The Winnipeg Christmas Market returns to the RBC Convention Centre, 375 York Ave., today and runs until Sunday. Shoppers looking to keep their cash north of the border will find more than 130 artisans selling Canadian-made products; as well as festive snacks and drinks from Nomad Box Bar, the Wagyu Wagon, The Bannock Factory and other Manitoba food vendors. Tickets (from $11.99 to $14.99) allow entry to any day of the market.
More than 130 artisans will be showcasing and selling their wares at the Winnipeg Christmas Market. (Cric Studios photo)
Today’s must-read
The mother of a Winnipeg nurse has died after reportedly waiting more than 30 hours inside a city emergency room, sparking a critical incident review and a secondary investigation led by the health minister.
News of the death circulated widely on social media Wednesday, after the patient’s daughter published a post detailing her attempt to get care for her mother, whose condition deteriorated as she waited for hours on a stretcher in a hallway at Grace Hospital last weekend.
Premier Wab Kinew acknowledged the death during question period Wednesday. “The details that we see in this post are very, very disturbing and are calling many, many things into question. As a matter of course, a critical incident has been launched,” he said in the legislature. Tyler Searle has the story.
Genevieve Price died after reportedly waiting more than 30 hours in Grace Hospital’s emergency department. (Facebook)
On the bright side
A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.
The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday.
Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The Associated Press reports.
This image provided by NSF NOIRLab shows NGC 6302, a billowing planetary nebula that resembles a cosmic butterfly. (NSF NOIRLab via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Nov. 17, 1969: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, prime minister Pierre Trudeau proposed a federal-provincial conference in February to find new ways to fight inflation. In Washington, D.C., U.S. Congressmen, appalled at colour pictures showing the alleged massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers, received support from the White House to force more transparency from the army concerning the incident at My Lai. Search our archives for more here.
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