Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries, with wind up to 15 km/h. High -5 C, wind chill -13 this morning and -7 this afternoon.
Environment Canada has made a change to its national weather alert program: it’s now using a colour-coded system of yellow, orange and red alerts to indicate risk level.
Environment Canada meteorologist Gerald Cheng says the shift came after years of planning.
“We want to implement colour-coded weather alerts because we know it works and it’s recommended by the World Meteorological Organization,” Cheng said Wednesday. The Canadian Press reports.
Environment Canada’s weather alert page shows yellow and orange alert areas and the text description of a yellow warning area on Thursday. (Environment Canada)
What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets face the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena, starting at 4 p.m.
📚 Winnipeg historians Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge, co-hosts of the One Great History podcast, launch their new book Portage and Main: How an Iconic Intersection Shaped Winnipeg’s History, Politics, and Urban Life tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg Transit is plotting a route to providing better protection for its drivers, amid persistent threats and violent incidents on city buses.
That likely means replacing the partial driver shields installed on Transit’s fleet in 2019 at a cost of $3.15 million.
The city is exploring floor-to-ceiling driver compartments that could cost as much as $15 million according to a ballpark estimate offered Thursday by Rick Young, Winnipeg Transit’s manager of operations.
A second option offering less protection would be full-size shields to replace the smaller equipment now in use. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
A Winnipeg Transit bus after the installation of a new glass shield to protect drivers in 2018. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 28, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a team of physycians at Health Sciences Centre successfully treated a patient with legionnaire’s disease, the second such case in Manitoba. The Manitoba Telephone System registered more than half the vehicles in its fleet outside Winnipeg to get cheaper Autopac rates, but Manitoba Hydro shunned the practice as unfair. The burnt-out wreckage of a missing New Zealand DC-10 was found in the Antarctic; there were no reports of survivors among the 257 people aboard. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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