Your forecast
Cloudy, with a few showers beginning this afternoon. Wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning then light this afternoon. High 4 C. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
At McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 7 p.m., the University of Manitoba Press-published The Keystone Province: Politics and Governance in Manitoba launches in an event featuring co-editors Kelly Saunders of Brandon University and the U of M’s Christopher Adams (also a Free Press book reviewer). Conrad Sweatman has a preview here.
Kelly Saunders (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
The acrimony and finger-pointing that gripped the Manitoba legislature over a proposed law to allow for the 72-hour detention of people intoxicated by meth ended with a whimper Wednesday, as the bill passed with near unanimous support.
Bill 48 passed third reading Wednesday afternoon following a hastily called news conference in which Premier Wab Kinew accused the Progressive Conservatives of playing politics with legislation that he said is critical to addressing Manitoba’s meth crisis.
“We’ve been calling this bill over and over and they keep wasting time. I’m not playing games,” Kinew said, standing in front of more than a dozen law enforcement officials, first-responders and other backers of the bill who gathered at the legislature. Tyler Searle has the story.
The province is prepared to open a 20-bed facility, dubbed the “protective care centre,” at 190 Disraeli Fwy., the premier said. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
You can help veterans and other seniors just by eating a cookie.
For a limited time, the High Tea Bakery, at 2103 Portage Ave., is baking Remembrance Day-themed sugar cookies as a fundraiser.
Owner Belinda Bigold, who opened the bakery with her mother in 2003, said they came up with the sweet honour for Canadian veterans of past wars and conflicts a decade ago. Kevin Rollason has more here.
High Tea Bakery owner Belinda Bigold decorates Remembrance Day cookies. A portion of the sales will be given to the Deer Lodge Centre Foundation. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 6, 1976: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the director of preventive medical services for Manitoba said a shipment of enough swine influenza vaccines to vaccinate everyone in the province between age 29 to 50, should an outbreak be reported anywhere in the world, would be stockpiled by the middle of the coming month. In Quebec, two guards taken prisoner by inmates at Laval Institute were released unharmed 11 hours later following negotiations with their captors. The Winnipeg Centennial Library on Graham Avenue was nearing completion. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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