Postcard From Winnipeg

In Winnipeg:

• Balmy (by Winnipeg standards) 45 degree weather is making it hard for snowmobile courses to open this season.
• A councillor donated $3,000 from his own transportation budget to an inner-city program that loans bus fares to those who can't afford it.
• The city is grappling with why it broke records with its 2011 murder rate of 39 deaths, including 5 without suspects.
• Occupy Winnipeg (population: two tents and a yurt) lit a New Years fire to celebrate the holiday.

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