What’s happening today
A man walks through Winnipeg’s airport earlier this year. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Barred from planes, trains: A grace period for unvaccinated travellers over the age of 12 ended today. A negative COVID-19 test will no longer be accepted as a substitute for most people seeking to board a plane or train in Canada. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Cross-examination in court: Affidavits by losing candidate Shelly Glover, her scrutineer and two of her supporters challenging the provincial Progressive Conservative party’s leadership election results will be cross-examined. The president of the party defended the vote in court on Monday. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Getting gross: Statistics Canada will release its gross domestic product figures for the third quarter of the year. The consensus expectation is that the GDP grew at an annual rate of about three per cent, below the Bank of Canada’s projection of 5.5 per cent. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Jury selection starts: Jury selection begins for a white former police officer charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man, in a suburb outside Minneapolis. Kim Potter said she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her Taser. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Arguments in appeals court: Lawyers for former U.S. president Donald Trump will argue in federal appeals court against Congress receiving call logs, drafts of speeches and other documents related to the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny on the morning of this final day of November, with increasing cloudiness near noon and then light snow. A high of -4 C, with wind chill as low as -11 this morning and peak winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 from the southeast beginning late this afternoon.
In case you missed it
According to a recent assessment by an engineer, the Millennium Library parking structure could require costly repairs. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Repairs would be costly: It could cost as much as $55 million to repair and maintain the Millennium Library’s parkade over the next decade. “Options that will be reviewed include undertaking all repairs and maintenance so the parkade remains operational, building a new parkade, and the viability of closing or selling the facility,” a city spokesman said. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Murder trial begins: The second-degree murder trial for a man accused of killing his wife and blowing up their house the day she listed it for sale began in Brandon on Monday. READ MORE
Smith takes top award: Dallas Smith was named entertainer of the year at the Canadian Country Music Association award show on Monday night. READ MORE
Survivor takes stand: A teen who survived a shooting on Flora Avenue in which his cousin was killed testified in court on Monday. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Barbados becomes republic: Barbados is now a republic, shedding its colonial past in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles, Rihanna and others. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 30, 1938: On Nov. 30, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported nationwide strikes in France jeopardized supplies of perishable food. In Montreal, Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve denounced the actions of German chancellor Adolf Hitler and his followers in “their persecution of helpless minorities” and added that in addition to opposing Nazism, the church also opposed communism, adding the polices of the CCF were practically the same as the latter. The official publication of Hitler’s SS threatened that lethal actions against Jews would follow an attack “on any leading man in Germany.”
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