Good morning!
Wet, blustery day: The weather is expected to be another day of srizzle (a meteorogical term we just invented to describe the combination of snow and drizzle that soaked Winnipeg on Monday). Even worse, today’s srizzle is expected to be blown about by wind from the north at 30 km/h, gusting to 50. Temperatures should fall to zero in the afternoon, and hit -2 C overnight.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSInsp. Max Waddell, head of the organized crime unit, says the police’s gang supression program is paying dividends.
Gangbusters: Insp. Max Waddell, head of the organized crime unit, says the Winnipeg Police Service’s gang suppression program is paying off, and that’s why gang activity isn’t making headlines as often these days. But, he adds, many gangs are taking a more businesslike approach and are operating more quietly. Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Hospital heliport: The most unusual parking spot at Health Sciences Centre, the hospital’s heliport, officially opened yesterday. It will let officials airlift patients from rural areas and emergency incidents such as highway collisions. READ MORE
Up next
HANDOUTThe Barra MacNeils
East Coast Christmas: The Barra MacNeils, a musical group from Sydney Mines, N.S., performs at the Centennial Concert Hall tonight at 7:30 p.m. Their list includes beautiful songs such as Oh Holy Night, Ave Maria, A Christmas in Killarney and Auld Lang Syne. And knowing the Barra MacNeils, step dancing is sure to break out.
Dexterous Doug: Free Press funnyman Doug Speirs will be bagging groceries this morning for a good cause. As part as the Christmas Cheer Board’s official launch of our annual IGA Safeway Sobeys /Cheer Board grocery donation bag campaign, Doug will compete against other media personalities in filling a bag of groceries for a family of three. Just remember, Doug: the bread goes in the bag AFTER the canned goods.
Around the water cooler
JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESManitoba Premier Brian Pallister
Back to bargaining table: Premier Brian Pallister says he will be speaking with unions representing teachers, civil servants and other publicly funded workers in the next several weeks to get their support for his austerity measures — and that could include opening up existing collective agreements to get wage concessions from the unions. READ MORE
Rental market: Local apartment vacancy rates are holding steady even though immigrants continue to flood into the province at a record-breaking pace and developers continue to bring hundreds of new rental until onto the market. The apartment vacancy rate is 2.8 per cent. READ MORE
Tending now
#OneWordOffVideoGames: What’s in a name? Quite a bit, actually. Consider what these video games would be like: Sheep Fighter II, Lara Croft: Fridge Raider, President Evil or Mortal Wombat.
On this date
On Nov. 29, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Japan had issued Great Britain a “virtual ultimatum” to remove its six steamships from the Yangtze River port of Chinkiang, 50 miles northeast of Nanking. According to Japanese naval scout planes, the British ships were anchored in the midst of 1,000 Chinese junks, thus sheltering them from Japanese air attacks. In Ste. Anne, Man. the “Good Samaritan” motorist George Wiebe died in hospital; Wiebe, observing an automobile accident due to icy conditions, had stopped to offer aid to two trucks involved when his own car was struck. READ MORE
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