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Locals clean up: Winnipeg’s Reid Carruthers won the Canada Cup of Curling Sunday — and a berth in the Olympic qualifying tournament next December in Ottawa. Meanwhile, Jennifer Jones, who already has a berth in the Oly qualifying event, beat Rachel Holman for the women’s title at the national event in Brandon. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Bus crash: Two passengers were seriously injured after a school bus loaded with 25 children and three adults crashed on a remote gravel road south of Pine Dock on the west side of Lake Winnipeg on the weekend. Both reportedly suffered back or spine injuries. The First Nation students from Berens River were returning from a fiddling event. READ MORE
Body found: The body of a missing 51-year-old northern Manitoba man has been found. David MacDonald’s body was discovered by a search team Sunday afternoon near Osik Lake. MacDonald, a teacher at Nelson House, was last seen Thursday night leaving on a snowmobile to go to a nearby cabin. READ MORE
Up next
Eye on Arctic: The largest annual gathering of scientists in the field of Arctic research is being held in Winnipeg, beginning today. An estimated 500 scientists and policy makers are expected to attend the 12th ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting at the RBC Convention Centre. The event concludes on Friday.
Treaty celebration: An event celebrating the historic agreements between First Nations and the Government of Canada is being held this morning at the Neeginan Centre on Higgins Avenue. First Nations members of Manitoba will receive their treaty annuity payments following an opening ceremony at 9:30.
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Parks out in the cold: There won’t be any extra money to maintain city parks in the coming year. Winnipeg’s parks division again will have to get by with no increase to its budget, which has been unchanged for three years. It means there’s no money to maintain new parks, a city manager says. READ MORE
Private MRI tests: There is no magic bullet to reducing waits for MRI tests, columnist Dan Lett writes. While the Pallister government is eyeing Saskatchewan’s experiment with private clinic tests to reduce waits, the problem may be that the tests aren’t always necessary, he says. READ MORE
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David Goldman / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNative American veterans join an interfaith ceremony at the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday.
Dakota Access Pipeline: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers refused to grant the Dakota Access pipeline company permission to extend the pipeline beneath a Missouri River reservoir. For months, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters have argued that extending the project beneath Lake Oahe would threaten the tribe’s water source and cultural sites, and have engaged in peaceful demonstrations to protect the water. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 5, 1980: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a man who said he performed a “mercy killing” for his employer was sentenced to three years in jail. The Manitoba government argued the government of Canada was violating the intent of the British North America Act by amending it without provincial consent. In Poland, a Communist party spokesman said that, faced with the prospect of surrendering socialist authority in the country, his party would call on military aid from the Soviet Union to “save the Polish people from tragedy.” READ MORE
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