What you need to know
A smartphone and a television receive visual and audio alerts to test Alert Ready, a national public alert system Monday, May 7, 2018 in Montreal. (Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press files)
Alarming situation: A national alert system is getting its second test at 1:55 p.m., and a provincial cabinet minister says some cellphone users will again fail to get the message. Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
Activist veteran dies: Anti-poverty activist, author and Second World War veteran Harry Leslie Smith has died in a Belleville, Ont., hospital at age 95.
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Weather
Your forecast: It will be cloudy with two to four centimetres of snow starting later this morning, a high of -5 C, wind from the southeast at 30 km/h gusting to 50, and windchill as low as -16 in the morning and -12 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
CPMaxime Bernier speaks at a People’s Party of Canada rally in Gatineau, Quebec on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
‘Making history’: Maxime Bernier is holding a rally with People’s Party of Canada members at a Winnipeg hotel tonight. “I think we are making history by building a party so fast,” Bernier tells columnist Dan Lett.
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In case you missed it
Connor Hellebuyck faces Aston-Reese.
Jets grounded: The Jets blew another third-period lead to the Pittsburgh Penguins at Bell MTS Place last night and have lost three of their past four games. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Final Senate seat: Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, a U.S. senator for Mississippi, retained her seat in a runoff vote from the midterm elections. Mississippi was the only U.S. state to have never elected a woman to either chamber of Congress.
On this date
On Nov. 28, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the cost of delivered milk would go up one cent on Dec. 7 to 16 cents a quart. The cost of butter would also rise by one cent per pound, the price of which had already risen by five cents during the month of November, from 62 cents to 67 cents a pound. Manitoba premier Stuart Garson denied the claim by Winnipeg mayor Garnet Coulter that the city was not responsible for the delay in relief debt settlements between the province and Manitoba municipalities, including Winnipeg. READ MORE
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