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Your forecast: The next 48 hour won’t exactly be a picnic. Environment Canada is calling for a very windy Wednesday, with gusts up to 60 km/h, and a temperature falling to -7 C late this afternoon. Tonight’s low will be -18 C but the breeze will make it feel like -24. Yep, we’re back to reporting on wind chill. On Thursday, expect a clear, cold day with a mid-afternoon high of just -12 C and a wind chill of -27. The weather gets milder toward the weekend, with daytime highs of -5 C on Friday, -2 C on Saturday and -5 C on Grey Cup Sunday.
In case you missed it
Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free PressA memorial was placed on a pole on Portage Avenue at Good Street, the scene of an SUV crash Monday morning.
Robbery death: Brandi Mousseau-Manningway, 27, a pregnant mother of two, was killed after the SUV she was driving crashed into a building at Portage Avenue and Good Street around 1:30 a.m. Monday following a police pursuit. The woman and an accomplice, Matthew Alexander Bartlett, 30, allegedly robbed at least three businesses together that night, police say. Bartlett ran away after the crash but was arrested and taken to hospital a short time later. He has now been charged with theft under $5,000, four counts of robbery with a weapon, four counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and five counts of breaching probation. READ MORE
Refugee deadline change: Syrian refugees will begin arriving in Canada next week but the federal government has pushed back its deadline to admit 25,000 of them by at least two months.Immigration Minister John McCallum and several other cabinet ministers and federal officials outlined the broad strokes of Canada’s plan to resettle the refugees at news conferences in Ottawa on Tuesday. There will be 10,000 arriving by the end of December, and the remaining 15,000 will be here by the end of February. It’s not immediately clear where they will all end up, as it depends existing settlement services, as well as family and friend connections the refugees may already have. Manitoba has offered to take up to 2,000 more Syrian refugees this year. READ MORE
Tensions rise: Turkey reportedly shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday that the country says crossed into its airspace from Syria, killing at least one pilot. It’s the first time in half a century a NATO member has downed a Russian plane, prompting an emergency meeting of the alliance. READ MORE
Up next
SUPPLIED PHOTOHope Chigudu.
Africa’s fight for life: Hope Chigudu, a resident of Zimbabwe, and four other African women are in Winnipeg tonight to talk about their frontline battle against AIDS. “Were it not for African women, I really think Africa would have perished,” Chigudu told Free Press columnist Jen Zoratti earlier this week. The women will share their experiences at Ask Her Talks, a speaker series tonight at the Metropolitan Event Centre. Tickets are $20. READ MORE
Chronicling the homeless: Volunteers recently took to the streets for Winnipeg’s first-ever Street Census, an attempt to more accurately chronicle the number and types of people who are homeless. The results on the census will be released today at 12:15 p.m. at Circle of Life Thunderbird House, Main and Higgins. Free Press reporter Kristin Annable will report full details.
Hair hero: A man who chooses to be known only as Master Barber Joe will cut the hair of 50 men today at City Looks, 3900 Grant Ave. All proceeds go to Siloam Mission. Joe starts his scissors snipping at 8 a.m. and will attempt to keep clipping until 10 p.m.
Around the water cooler
Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press FilesWinnipeg Harvest’s David Northcott
Manitoba’s child poverty crisis: The latest annual child poverty report card, released Tuesday, shows nearly a third of Manitoba children are poor, the highest provincial rate of child poverty in Canada. It’s a number that’s been stagnant for the last three years and on the rise over the long term. In 2013, 29 per cent of Manitoba kids lived below Statistics Canada’s low-income measure. That’s a full 10 points higher than the national average and six points higher than in 1989. READ MORE
Let’s get it started: The players are here, the players are here! The Edmonton Eskimos and Ottawa Redblacks arrived in Winnipeg late Tuesday evening and have four days to prepare for the 103rd Grey Cup. Most of the athletes plan to take in some of the festivities that accompany the big CFL championship game, but there’s a limit to the partying. “Yeah, we do curfew,” Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell told the media gathered at Winnipeg’s James Richardson International Airport. Kickoff on Sunday is at 5 p.m. at Investors Group Field. READ MORE
Lights out on cancer: Michael Geiger-Wolf flipped the switch on 100,000 Christmas lights on his home in River East and is inviting everyone to join him in turning the lights out on cancer. Geiger-Wolf, a two-time cancer survivor whose non-Hodgkin lymphoma is currently in remission, is illuminating his house at 18 Mildred Dr. for a sixth straight year to raise money to fight cancer. In the past five years of presenting his light display, Geiger-Wolf has raised $35,000 toward the fight against cancer and he’s hoping this year will be the biggest and best yet. READ MORE
Trending now
#GreyCup: It’s only fitting that with just four sleeps until the CFL championship game, those two words would be trending in the host city of Winnipeg. READ MORE
#BlackFriday: Sure, it’s an American thing – it’s the Friday that falls after Thanksgiving in the U.S. – and it signals big deals for consumers. But Canadian retailers say they’re also slashing prices to persuade shoppers to spend their bucks north of the border.
On this date
On Nov. 25, 1929: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Georges Clemenceau, former premier of France and the “Father of Victory” in the world war, had died at the age of 88. An inquest into the deaths of three members of one family in a fire on Atlantic Avenue was to be held at the central police station by the coroner. Premier Ferguson of Saskatchewan sent a wire to Ottawa in which he held out hope of bringing Mennonite refugees to that province, while Germany began to move refugees away from Russia.
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