Dangerously cold temperatures hit Prairies, windchills reaching minus 50

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Sat Dec 12, 9:42 PM

By The Canadian Press

EDMONTON - Dangerously cold temperatures have settled in across much of the Prairies and northern Ontario this weekend.
Environment Canada has issued warnings, saying the windchill could reach -50C.
At those temperatures, exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.
In both Edmonton and Calgary, police and paramedics were moving out to help get the homeless into shelters.

# Ottawa under fire from Quebec and Ontario for its stance at Copenhagen: The Canadian Press
But not Alberta.
Damn that global warming!