A 19 year old man is the city’s 28th homicide victim of the year, following a shooting early yesterday. Police say the man was gunned down about two blocks from a hall where he may have been attending a party by the Liberian Association of Manitoba. Apparently, the secretary of that group says he thinks the shooters were part of a group of young people who had stormed the Canadian Lebanese Cultural Center…where his group had held its Christmas party. So far, police have no leads in the case, and they’re asking anyone with information to step forward.
Well city crews have been out overnight doing some cleaning up of the 7 plus centimeters of snow we got this weekend. Officials say the clean up should be totally done by Wednesday, at a cost of almost 2 million dollars.
If you’re planning on flying to the east coast for Xmas, you could run into some trouble. The Maritimes, just the latest region getting a nice slap of winter this morning, complete with snow, freezing rain and high winds. Thousands have been left in the dark, hundreds of flights have been cancelled and police are warning drivers to stay off the roads.
Prime Minister Harper is putting his dream of Senate reform on the backburner, moving this week to appoint 18 Conservative faithful to plum jobs in the red chamber. Harper’s expected announcement comes just days before Xmas, when few Canadians will be paying close attention, suggesting he doesn’t expect the news of him stacking the upper house will be popular.
And the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, is out with its Top 10 crises of 2008. Topping the list were violence in Somalia and the eastern Congo. As well as neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe.
