Free Press Book Club - This Has Nothing to Do With You
Free Press Book Club meeting featuring Lauren Carter, author of our October pick, This Has Nothing to Do With You.
October 26, 2020
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Free Press Book Club - All Our Relations
Free Press Book Club meeting featuring Tanya Talaga, author of our September pick, All Our Relations.
September 17, 2020
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Free Press Book Club - Here the Dark
Free Press Book Club meeting featuring David Bergen, author of our August pick, Here the Dark.
August 20, 2020
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Free Press Book Club - Older Sister: Not Necessarily Related
Free Press Book Club meeting featuring Jenny Heijun Wills, author of our July pick, Older Sister: Not Necessarily Related
July 17, 2020
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Free Press Book Club - Don't Try This at Home
Free Press Book Club meeting featuring Daria Salamon and Rob Krause, authors of our June pick, Don't Try This at Home
June 17, 2020
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Free Press Book Club - The Break
The inaugural Free Press Book Club meeting featuring Katherena Vermette, author of our May pick, The Break.
May 13, 2020
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AMG Winter Sporting Tour
Mercedes customers from across North America, including Mexico, spent three days at a time, during half of January and most of February driving around race tracks plowed and groomed on 325 acres of ice just off shore from downtown Gimli.
August 24, 2017
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Ahead By a Century performed by Rusty Matyas, Keri Latimer and JP Hoe
Rusty Matyas, Keri Latimer and JP Hoe – who are part of the new group Middle of Nowhere – perform Ahead By a Century by the Tragically Hip. The song takes the No. 1 spot on the Free Press’s list of Canada’s 150 most important songs.
The list can be found here: wfp.to/150songs
June 29, 2017
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The rail industry in Winnipeg
With three Class 1 railways and over 5,000 people employed in the city, Winnipeg remains one of Canada's rail capitals.
September 16, 2016
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"We have a great, great newspaper in our home town." - Gary Doer
Former premier and U.S. ambassador Gary Doer joined Free Press editor Paul Samyn at the News Café for an interactive discussion about the U.S. election and offered glowing praise of the Winnipeg Free Press.
September 08, 2016
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Bombers Report: Bombers have bigger plans than a Banjo Bowl win
Free Press sports editor Steve Lyons and columnist Paul Wiecek discuss the Blue Bombers going into the big Banjo Bowl game at IG Field.
September 08, 2016
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U.S. race "too close to call" says Gary Doer
Former premier and U.S. ambassador Gary Doer joined Free Press editor Paul Samyn at the News Café for an interactive discussion about the U.S. election.
September 08, 2016
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Winnipeg's rail history
September 08, 2016
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Folklorama Scandinavian Pavilion
Jane Meech with her daughter Janis Chase and granddaughters Kennedy and Dani Chase are volunteers with the Scandinavian Pavilion at this years Folklorama.
August 03, 2016
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Premier Brian Pallister makes a statement regarding the Port of Churchill
Premier Brian Pallister makes a statement regarding the Port of Churchill and answers questions from the media.
July 28, 2016
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Storm aftermath on Long Plain First Nation
Residents of the Long Plain First Nation assess the damage the storm did to their properties last night. Forty-seven homes were severely damaged though there were no reported injuries.
July 21, 2016
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Meet the magician: Bombers offensive line coach Bob Wylie
In addition to being an accomplished coach in the NFL and CFL, Blue Bombers offensive line coach Bob Wylie is also a magician. He shows columnist Paul Wiecek a card trick.
July 20, 2016
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Winnipeg Police firearm incident
The Winnipeg Police Service talk to the media regarding two separate gun related incidents in Winnipeg at about the same time on the morning of Tuesday, July 19th.
July 19, 2016
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How many Pokémon can we find in downtown Winnipeg in one hour?
Free Press reporter Bailey Hildebrand-Russell scours Winnipeg's downtown in search of Pokémon, using the new Pokémon Go app.
The app has seen massive worldwide use, including many Winnipeggers.
July 13, 2016
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Bomber Report: Can the Blue make it two?
Free Press editor Steve Lyons and columnist Paul Wiecek talk about the chances of the Blue Bombers making it two in a row against defending Grey Cup champions Edmonton Eskimos.
July 12, 2016
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A blustery day in Winnipeg Tuesday is a sign of the cloudy week to come, with Environment Canada predicting more flurries, a few rain showers and brisk temperatures right through until Sunday.
📷 by Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press
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The Winnipeg-lensed horror film The Return starts out as a ghost story and morphs into science fiction.
Straddling two genres is a tall order for a low-budget Canadian film. But then multi-talented local director BJ Verot (pictured) straddles many worlds — and he got to explore them in bringing his first feature film to fruition, employing his own background as an actor, writer, stunt performer/co-ordinator, visual effects creator and camera operator.
Verot hopped on a call with arts reporter Randall King to talk about the film's brisk 16-day shoot and how COVID-19 has altered the release plans. The full story is at the link in the bio.
📷 by Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
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Attention all young people: it's Media Literacy Week!⠀
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In an era where content is flying at you from all directions, it's important to ask questions and think critically about what you're reading, especially when it comes to information shared on social media. ⠀
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Winnipeg Free Press lifestyle writer Sabrina Carnevale touched on this topic in her column today. She writes:⠀
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The negative side effects of social media were known well before the pandemic hit, such as the fixation on likes and views. On top of this, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can act as facilitators of COVID-19-related misinformation. This can not only generate fear and panic but can encourage people to follow bad advice. (You know, like drinking bleach.) “When people are on social media, typically they become more opinionated and partisan and more extreme in their views,” says Dr. Syras Derksen, a registered psychologist in Winnipeg. “It’s that echo-chamber effect where your opinions are noted by social media and fed back to you so you can enjoy the experience. People like to have their own opinions fed back to them.”⠀
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Swipe through to see three reasons why you should care about Media Literacy Week, and read Sabrina's full column at the link in the bio.⠀
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Juice Me began as a cold-pressed juice operation. Except when Agata Robb was preparing juices such as orange, lemon and beet in those first couple of years, she often had leftovers, which she would drain into ice cube trays, telling herself she’d use them “for something, one day.” ⠀
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In time, whenever she felt a cold coming on, she’d pop a cube out of the tray, usually one containing ginger, and together with lemon and honey, add it to a cup of boiling water.⠀
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“Cold medications have never sat well with me — they give me an anxious feeling — but anytime I had one of my ginger shots, it kicked a cold right in the butt,” she says. Soon, she was offering the frozen shots to friends and family who had the sniffles ⠀
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Link in the bio for the full story on Juice Me.⠀
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📷 by Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press
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On Friday, the Montreal-based company Le Chateau announced it was filing for bankruptcy and would shutter all 123 Canadian stores, no longer able to "continue its operations as a going concern." That move will throw 1,400 employees out of work; Le Chateau, in a release, named the final straw as the retail damaged wreaked by COVID-19.
But the company’s escalating financial woes have been a subject of Canadian business news for some years, and it showed little hope of recovering its former moxie.
Free Press reporter-at-large (and former Le Chateau employee) Melissa Martin penned a column about the store, her time working there and the mixed emotions that go along with saying goodbye.
Link in the bio.
📷 by Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press
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While catastrophic weather events elsewhere offer dramatic examples of climate change, research in and around Churchill shows clear, long-term evidence of global warming's relentless attack on animal and plant species.⠀
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Churchill's location on the edge of three distinct biomes draws scientists from around the world researching the devastating impacts of global climate change.⠀
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Climate reporter Sarah Lawrynuik travelled to Churchill this summer and her extensive reporting during that time on the impact of climate change in the region has developed into the multi-story, two-part series, Bearing North, the first of which is online now at wfp.to/bearingnorth.⠀
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Link in the bio for the lead story, and check out our IGTV for a companion video.⠀
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📷 by Sarah Lawrynuik / Winnipeg Free Press
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The local bagel business is booming 🥯
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In March, Bagelsmith opened downtown and quickly adjusted its plans to accommodate COVID-19 restrictions. In the past eight months, Bagelsmith has sold more than 100,000 of its Montreal-style bagels to hungry Winnipeggers.
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In November, a new spot, Hudson Bagels, is opening on Sherbrook Street. Owners Jessica Wylychenko and Chris Silva say their bagels combine elements of both of Montreal and New York styles of preparation and can currently be found at various markets around town.⠀
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Reporter Ben Waldman has the full story at the link in the bio.
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Pictured, in order: Hudson Bagels, Bagelsmith
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#TBT to September 2019, when Winnipeg singer-songwriter Begonia was filming the music video for the title track of her debut solo record, Fear, and invited then music reporter Erin Lebar and photojournalist Mikaela MacKenzie to get a behind-the-scenes look at the process.⠀
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Today, that music video has finally been released.⠀
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Swipe through to see a few of Mikaela's photos from the day, click the link in the bio to read Erin's award-nominated profile (for which these photos were taken), and head to Begonia's YouTube channel or Facebook page to see the new video. ⠀
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📷 by Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files
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This stunning snap of Fraser's Grove Park along the Red River Wednesday morning, after the first substantial flurries of the season left more than five centimetres of snow on the ground, makes the seasonal change a bit easier to handle ❄️
📷 by Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
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Vanessa Kuzina, her husband Chris, and their soon-to-be two-year-old daughter Winona recently made the move back to Winnipeg from Toronto, the city they've called home for just over a year.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of this city's former residents have found themselves uttering that oft-quoted line from The Simpsons: "That's it, back to Winnipeg."
For Winnipeg expats living in large, pandemic-ravaged centres with no family to form a bubble with, their hometown emerged as an attractive alternative — especially during the summer, when case counts were low.
Columnist Jen Zoratti interviewed three people who have chosen to move home to Winnipeg amid a pandemic and have lots to say about affordable living, isolation and how their priorities have shifted and been clarified.
Link in the bio.
📷 by Ruth Bonneville
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Francis Evans Cornish, Winnipeg’s first mayor, was a wild man whose brawling ways and brazenness captured the hardy, fighting Prairie spirit of the time.
His actions? Often questionable, occasionally criminal. His personality? Brash, confrontational, opportunistic, and generally disagreeable. His ideology and views? Extreme and prejudiced. His life? Utterly colourful and lived in the spotlight.
Declan Schroeder’s latest long read follows the life and legacy of Cornish; find it at the link in the bio.
📸 courtesy of City of Winnipeg Archives
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Amina Haswell is the founder of Prairie Breeze Folk Arts Studio, a throwback operation that turns out 32 varieties of handcrafted brooms, brushes and whisks.⠀
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After officially launching in the fall of 2019, she filled out a vendor’s application for the 2020 Winnipeg Folk Festival, figuring that event would serve as her “big reveal.” She doesn’t have to remind anybody how that turned out.⠀
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By the time the festival was officially cancelled in mid-April, Haswell had built up a stock of close to 500 brooms and whisks, which was when she decided to give a slew of them away for Mother’s Day. Since then, she’s been busily selling brooms at outdoor events such as the St. Norbert Farmer’s Market, and filling online orders for customers from as far away as Brazil and Australia.⠀
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Haswell spoke to writer David Sanderson about how she started her booming — or should we say brooming? —business at the link in the bio.⠀
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📷 by Mike Deal
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