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WAYNE GLOWACKI /WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESCoun. Shawn Dobson (St. Charles)
Fireworks at city hall: Members of Mayor Brian Bowman’s executive policy committee lashed out at a pair of business leaders during a tense debate of the city’s budget on Tuesday. At one point Coun. Shawn Dobson told the mayor that he didn’t trust him, EPC or the city administration. READ MORE
Your forecast: Mainly sunny today, but the cold weather continues. High of -19 C today. Northwest winds at 30 km/h, gusting to 50. Wind chill -38. Tonight, the low is -26, with a wind chill remaining at -38. On Thursday, it will be mainly sunny with a high of -20.
In case you missed it
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSBlaine Pedersen, right, minister of infrastructure, and Doug McMahon, assistant deputy minister with Infrastructure, detail the latest flood report Tuesday.
Flood risk high: The province says soil moisture and precipitation this fall has primed southern Manitoba for a potential flood. According to a hydrologic forecast, the conditions this fall are similar to those leading up to the 2011 flood. READ MORE
Winnipeg gets an “A”: Winnipeg ranks third among 10 large Canadian cities when judged on population health, life satisfaction, healthy lifestyle and access to health-care services, according to the Conference Board of Canada. Only Saskatoon and Calgary graded higher. The three cities were the only ones to earn an ‘A’ in the conference board’s first City Health Monitor. READ MORE
Up next
City hall: City council meets for the last time this year.
Trade deal: The chair of the House of Commons trade committee says he hopes Parliament can ratify the Canada-EU free trade deal this week before rising for the holiday break. On Wednesday, the committee is set to begin clause-by-clause consideration of the bill that would implement the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA.
Around the water cooler
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe city is abuzz with concern for people living on the street after a woman died over the weekend.
Cold comfort: Manitoba’s laws appear to be throwing up a roadblock to the rescue of vulnerable persons from the cold. Only peace officers can pull intoxicated people off the street. That has some local activists concerned. Meanwhile, other cities are more proactive than Winnipeg in ensuring there is adequate shelter for all when the temperature plunges. READ MORE
Not just fentanyl: The opioid fentanyl is garnering a lot of headlines these days, but a clinical nurse with Winnipeg’s Street Connections service tells Jen Zoratti she’s worried about the growing prevalence of crystal meth use, particularly among youth. READ MORE
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RICHARD SHOTWELL / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / INVISIONAlan Thicke
Alan Thicke: The Canadian actor, known for playing the family patriarch on 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains,” has died of a heart attack. He was 69. READ MORE
#AddStarWarsImproveAMovie: As if the impending release of Rogue One in theatres isn’t enough, perhaps there are more films that could be made more Force-ful: Mr. And Mrs. Sith; The Fault In Our Death Stars; What About Boba? and Some Like It Hoth might do. Or do not. There is not try.
On this date
On Dec. 14, 1999: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that fir the first time in Canadian history, a team of surgeons at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre conducted a double lung transplant from partial lungs from two healthy, living donors. An inquest into the deaths due to fire of three children in 1998 heard from the babysitter caring for them at the time; it was discovered she was the same sitter who had been charged the year before with locking the children up. READ MORE
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