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Subsidized to work downtown: Reporter Kristin Annable continues her investigation into the premiums paid to public-sector workers who work downtown. She reported Tuesday that Manitoba Hydro and Manitoba Public Insurance pay employees nearly $2 million in yearly allowances above their salaries as compensation for working downtown. Today, she tells how some employees of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority get $103 monthly subsidies to help with parking. READ MORE
Your forecast: Be nice. That would be a wonderful strategy for Manitobans to cope with the storm. Just be nice. Let another driver cut in line. Shovel the walk of the senior living next door. When a kid is 10 minutes tardy for school, let it go, teacher. An epidemic of niceness will help us endure a week of winter weather, which continues today with a 60 per cent chance of snow and wind from the north at 40 km/h gusting to 60. The daytime high is -4, with an overnight low of -12.
In case you missed it
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESIan Wishart, minister of education and training.
Vow to improve education: Ian Wishart, Manitoba’s education minister, pledged Tuesday the province’s students will be better taught. He was reacting to a report on Tuesday that said Manitoba’s children ranked eighth in math in Canada and ninth in both reading and science. “This is another brick in the wall that tells us we have issues to deal with,” he said. Nick Martin reports. READ MORE
Jim Carr says sorry: The federal Natural Resources Minister, a Liberal MP from Winnipeg South Centre, apologized Tuesday for suggesting last week Canada would call in police or the military if violent protests erupt over pipeline construction. “One of those characteristics of Canada that makes us such a special country is that we have not only tolerance for dissent, but we embrace dissent because it is an essential characteristic of who we are to be Canadian. And I also wanted to make the point that civil disobedience and peaceful protest is very much a part of our history, and I should have left it at that.” Mia Rabson reports. READ MORE
Up next
Casting call: A feature movie filming in Winnipeg today seeks non-speaking extras to portray high school students at a formal event on ice. Extras are paid $12.25 per hour plus overtime. Snacks and refreshments are provided. Contact wwextras2016@gmail.com
Fireworks tonight: An annual festive ceremony of tree lighting and fireworks takes place today at Grace Hospital Auditorium, 300 Booth Dr., beginning at 6 p.m. Their “Tree Of Life” represents the memory of loved ones.
Around the water cooler
MIKE DEAL ./ WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESFormer National Chief Phil Fontaine
Selling pot to First Nations: Phil Fontaine, a former national indigenous leader from Manitoba, has been hired to lead Indigenous Roots, a medical-marijuana company that aims to build and operate licensed facilities to provide the drug to First Nations patients. “We know this is an underserved population,” he said. Mia Rabson reports. READ MORE
The joy of doing nothing: Columnist Jen Zoratti reminds Manitobans it’s OK in blizzards to do nothing: treat it like a sick day and watch Netflix. “Imagine if everyone who could stay home during a snowstorm actually did stay home. There would be fewer car accidents and fewer slips and falls.” READ MORE
Trending now
#HolidayPickUpLines: You might want to think twice before trying one of these out on someone who’s caught your eye: “Is your name Jingle Bells? ‘Cause you look like you go all the way”; “Please eggnog-ledge me I’m lonely”; or “Wanna guide my sleigh tonight?”
On this date
On Dec. 7, 1918: The Manitoba Free Press reported that the Bavarian premier intended to release documents that showed it had been the exiled German Kaiser Wilhelm who was responsible for the Great War. Great Britain expected Germany to bear Britain’s costs for the war, a sum of roughly eight billion pounds. A multinational peace conference was set to take place in January in Paris. A referendum was called for on the question of continuing prohibition in Canada. READ MORE
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