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Mainly sunny. Wind from the southwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 10 C, wind chill -8 this morning. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
The documentary Resistance: They Fought Back, will be screened at 7 p.m. at the Asper Jewish Community Campus Berney Theatre (123 Doncaster St.). “Jewish resistance to the Holocaust was more than just the Warsaw Ghetto uprising,” says Holocaust educator Belle Jarniewski, the executive director of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada. “But most people only know about that.” John Longhurst has a preview here.
Belle Jarniewski, executive director of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
In 1985, a slim novel chronicling the life of a young boy at a residential school was quietly self-published at a Waterloo, Ont. copy shop. Now, 40 years later, Enos Montour’s novel Brown Tom’s Schooldays has been reissued by University of Manitoba Press in an expanded critical edition. The launch of the new edition, with editor Mary Jane Logan McCallum, in conversation with Jill McConkey, takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park location (1120 Grant Ave.)
Today’s must-read
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election could bring sweeping changes to Manitoba as the provincial immigration sector braces for an influx of newcomers and the business community remains leery of trade impacts.
Trump, who ran on a campaign that included threats of mass deportation and stiff tariffs, will become the country’s 47th president after routing Democratic candidate and Vice-President Kamala Harris overnight Tuesday.
While votes were still being counted Wednesday afternoon, the verdict was already cemented, with Trump earning well above 270 electoral college votes — the minimum required to win the presidency. Tyler Searle has the story.
Republican presidential nominee former U.S. president Donald Trump smiles at an election night watch party on Wednesday. (Evan Vucci / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Nov. 7, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Republican U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower won re-election, but both houses of Congress would be controlled by Democratic majorities. Sections of Budapest were in flames and the Red Cross reported civilian casualties from Soviet fire were heavy; the town of Dunapentele in the Danube valley was hit by Soviet bombers. In Winnipeg, the first snowfall of the winter brought city traffic to a standstill. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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