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Selling pot: The Pallister government has decided that the private sector will be responsible for selling recreational cannabis when it is legalized next year, while Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries will act as the wholesaler. READ MORE
Your forecast: There may be a few flurries this morning, but they’ll end by early this afternoon. The high will be minus 8. This evening it will be partly cloudy with a chance of flurries. The low will be minus 18.
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Cooper Nemeth
Man admits to murder: A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday in the February 2016 death of 17-year-old Cooper Nemeth. Nicholas Bell-Wright admitted to shooting Nemeth twice in the head. He faces a life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years. READ MORE
Appeal for help: The Winnipeg Humane Society will need help to pay for repairs to its facility on Hurst Way after a pipe froze and burst, causing flood damage. The society has set up a page for donations on its website. READ MORE
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BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSManitoba Métis president David Chartrand
Métis reconciliation: A one-day conference of prominent Métis political leaders, corporate executives and economic experts gets underway today at the University of Winnipeg. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
HADAS PARUSH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESTraffic at the intersection of Kenaston Road and Sterling Lyon Parkway in Winnipeg.
Low priority: A proposed east-west corridor in south Charleswood has little chance of being built anytime soon. Coun, Marty Morantz, chair of the public works committee, says he doesn’t understand why city engineering staff and a consulting firm presented the corridor as a pending project since it is a low priority with no chance of being built in the near future. READ MORE
Forecast improves: The Conference Board of Canada is feeling a bit more optimistic about Manitoba’s economy. It is now forecasting real gross domestic product growth next year of 1.3 per cent, instead of 0.3 per cent in its previous forecast. The new forecast is still down considerably from this year’s projected growth of 2.9 per cent. READ MORE
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#RIPDocHalladay: Former star pitcher Roy Halladay, a Cy Young Award winner and face of the Blue Jays franchise for most of the 2000s, died Tuesday when his private plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. READ MORE
280 characters: Every Twitter user will have twice the room to share their thoughts after the company confirms it is doubling its character count. READ MORE
On this date
Nov. 8, 1962: The Board of Broadcast Governors, the forerunner to the CRTC, passes a controversial regulation forcing the CBC to carry the CTV telecast of the Grey Cup, including commercials, in what they state is the public’s best interest. Arrangements are made to check freighters carrying dismantled missiles leaving Cuba and Richard M. Nixon, after conceding the governorship of California, lashes out at the press and ‘bids a caustic farewell’. READ MORE
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