Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -6 C, wind chill near -16.
Canada’s warmest winter on record is unlikely to make a repeat performance this year, The Weather Network’s chief meteorologist says, as a new seasonal forecast suggests the season will try to “salvage its reputation.”
Chris Scott says the forecast suggests this winter will be generally colder and more impactful than last year, which saw the warmest winter on record — but it still won’t be a “start to finish blockbuster” for any of Canada’s regions. The Canadian Press has more here.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Aerna, starting at 9 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A man shot dead Sunday after police say he stabbed an officer in the neck had completed a jail sentence days earlier for assaulting hospital security staff with a knife.
The Free Press has confirmed Jordan Charlie, 24, of Nunavut, was the man killed by Winnipeg Police Service officers at Unicity shopping centre.
Charlie, who was from Iqaluit, was released from custody in Manitoba on Nov. 19 after he pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon and other related offences. He was sentenced to the equivalent of six months of time served. Tyler Searle and Dean Pritchard have the story here.
Jordan Charlie (Facebook)
On the bright side
When Krysta Alexson first picked up a fiddle in September, she hoped she would be able to play a tune by the end of the semester.
As she has progressed in the first-of-a-kind Métis fiddling class at the University of Manitoba school of music, she’s found the tunes are helping to carry her.
Alexson, a graduate student in Indigenous studies, said Tuesday that when she’s stuck writing her thesis on the inherent leadership systems of the Plains Cree, or feeling “a little off” after researching colonial records, she grabs her bow and draws it across the strings. Scott Billeck has the story.
Métis fiddling instructor Patti Kusturok (right) and Indigenous Studies grad student Krysta Alexson at the University of Manitoba (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 26, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the British ministry of defence was actively considering a cut in the country’s nuclear deterrent program. In Ottawa, prime minister John Diefenbaker outlined a five-prong aid program for prairie farmers who suffered losses because of the early onset of winter weather. In Winnipeg, Manitoba premier Duff Roblin said he would give the federal plan “serious consideration.” Read the rest of this day’s paper. Search our archives for more here.
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