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Security preparations continue leading up to president-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in Washington on Wednesday. The Jets are in Ontario for a three-game road trip against the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ottawa Senators (twice). And colder temperatures are expected in the next two days, with a high a couple of degrees below the average for today’s date. Adam Treusch, assignment editor
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Premier Brian Pallister and provincial Health Minister Heather Stefanson leave the Keystone Centre after a tour of the COVID-19 immunization site on Wednesday. (Tim Smith / Brandon Sun files)
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Trees Winnipeg, which considers itself the voice of Winnipeg’s trees, has launched a campaign to renew the effort to save Winnipeg’s rapidly dropping American elm population. (Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free Press)
In a city that treasures its lush summer canopy, the loss of 33,000 elm trees since 2016 has been a serious blow.
In a city that treasures its lush summer canopy, the loss of 33,000 elm trees since 2016 has been a serious blow.
In neighbourhoods such as Wolseley, the West End and Glenelm, these towering icons are being felled by disease.
To put it in perspective, if each block had 10 elms, that would amount to 3,300 blocks being stripped of their foliage because of the city’s losing battle against Dutch elm disease.