What’s happening today
Deborah Boateng, a cleaner at Churchill High School, wipes down high-touch areas at the school in Winnipeg prior to the first day of classes. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Student tests positive: Students will return to Churchill High School this morning, one day after Manitoba’s first announced case of COVID-19 in a school building. Maggie Macintosh and Carol Sanders report. READ MORE
Premier, minister at marsh: Premier Brian Pallister and provincial Conservation and Climate Minister Sarah Guillemard will announce “support for climate and green education” at Oak Hammock Marsh this morning. Pallister held a new conference Wednesday to highlight what his government has done since being re-elected one year ago today. Carol Sanders and Larry Kusch report. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny for most of the day with a high of 16 C and wind from the southwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 until the mid-afternoon.
In sports
NFL season kicks off: The NFL season begins tonight with the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Houston Texans. The Chiefs are one of the few NFL teams allowing a limited number of fans to attend games this season. Masks are mandatory at Arrowhead Stadium. READ MORE
Raptors avoid extinction: The defending champion Toronto Raptors avoided being ousted from the NBA playoffs with a double-overtime win in Game 6 against the Boston Celtics last night. Game 7 of the second-round playoff series is Friday night. READ MORE
In case you missed it
A woman uses her computer keyboard to type while surfing the internet in North Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. The technical glitches and occasional outages that will almost certainly be part of this year’s virtual school experience may also prove to be teachable moments for educators and students alike, according to various experts in the field. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Judge again raises objection: A judge who reluctantly agreed to view a “representative sampling” of child pornography evidence again pushed back against the practice while sentencing a man Wednesday. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Audit of agency: A report by Manitoba’s auditor general says the Vital Statistics Agency needs to do more to protect sensitive information. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Sept. 10, 1999: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that artist Diana Thorneycroft’s new exhibit at the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre featured the carcasses of 12 dead rabbits. A 12-year-old boy, Julius Rosenberg, had his Medal of Bravery and Humanity Medal returned to him after it was seized along with his sister’s toys and the family’s vehicles, home and cottage in compliance with a court order from Revenue Canada; Rosenberg had been awarded the Medal of Bravery in 1992 after saving his younger sister from a bear attack. A foreign-trained MD who had fought for nine years to practise medicine in Canada filed a formal complaint of discrimination with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission.
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