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UN post beckons: Winnipegger Ahmed Warsame was hoping to retire this year after working nearly three decades in war zones and running the world’s largest refugee camp near Somalia. But then duty called and Warsame answered. In January, he will become director of global emergencies, staff security and supply management for the United Nations. READ MORE
Your forecast: Expect a mainly cloudy morning with a 40 per cent chance of flurries before the skies clear this afternoon. The temperature will fall to -13 C by the afternoon. The low overnight will be -20. On Friday, there will be snow and local blowing snow, beginning in the morning, with accumulations of up to 10 cm. High -9.
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EVAN VUCCI / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILESU.S. president-elect Donald Trump
He trumped the headlines: Free Press readers have overwhelmingly selected U.S. president-elect Donald Trump as 2016’s international newsmaker. The 70-year-old real estate tycoon defied the pollsters and political norms while cementing a global shift toward xenophobia and populism in winning this fall’s election. READ MORE
Manitobans turned off: Nearly a third of Manitobans say they are less likely to visit the United States with Donald Trump as the leader of the free world. According to a Probe Research poll for the Free Press, more than one-third of Manitoba women and one-fifth of all men say The Donald is making them think twice about heading south for a holiday. READ MORE
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Jets vs. Columbus: Winnipeg Jets take on the red-hot Columbus Blue Jackets tonight at 7 p.m. at the MTS Centre.
Around the water cooler
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSMayor Brian Bowman reflects on 2016
Bowman reflects: It was a year of confrontations for Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman. The mayor, midway through his first term in office, sat down with Free Press city hall reporter Aldo Santin for a year-end chat about an eventful 12 months that saw him butting heads with some of the city’s biggest players. READ MORE
Cuts spark court action: The Manitoba Metis Federation says it is taking the province to court over “unreasonable” cuts to its health funding. In court documents filed Dec. 22, the federation has applied for a judicial review of the Progressive Conservative government’s decision to cut $650,000 in funding used to employ five health staff. READ MORE
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Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in 2015
Debbie Reynolds: The actress and mother of the late Carrie Fisher, who died on Tuesday, has died of a stroke at the age of 84 on Wednesday. Reynolds was known for many film roles, particularly as in Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 29, 1975: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Manitoba health services commission had offered doctors in the province a nine per cent increase in pay for the coming year. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said the government’s new anti-inflation measures would transform Canadian values, habits and institutions, adding that Ottawa’s approach was to neither dismantle labour unions or multinational corporations, but to take steps to govern them both. In Reykajvik, the captain of an Icelandic gunboat said a British naval frigate had rammed his vessel, ending an unofficial Christmas truce in the ongoing fishing-rights dispute between the two countries. READ MORE
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