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Hydro, Manitoba Housing HQ to hire safety officers to battle escalating violence Safety officers equipped with pepper gel and handcuffs and specially trained and licensed security staff will have the legal authority to restrain, detain and make an arrests.

Scoop: The province quietly updated its regulations to allow for institutional safety officers to be stationed at MB Hydro and MB Housing buildings. The change came right before an armed man attacked a Hydro employee at its downtown HQ. @winnipegfreepress.com #wfp

Beleaguered tenants fed up with unsafe Manitoba Housing building in Winnipeg's Osborne Village Residents of a Manitoba Housing block in Osborne Village say they are fed up with crime in their building and fear for their safety, a day after a resident was charged for setting fire to it. Sadie Be...

Residents of a Manitoba Housing block in Osborne Village say they are fed up with crime in their building and fear for their safety, a day after a resident was charged for setting fire to it.

It gets better www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

No one more deserving, frankly #DootDoot

Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

CNN reporting Canadians boycotting the U.S. has, in fact, made an impact.

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Hi Aleeza, I'm working on a story about this today for the Freep. Please DM me!

If you trekked all the way to school this morning for work/learning, only for it to be cancelled -- my DMs are open!

Hi #Winnipeg : I'm working on a story about people opting out of travel south of the border to visit family and friends for the holidays owing to U.S. - Canada relations. Is this you? If so, I'd love to chat. Get at me at nicole.buffie@freepress.mb.ca or hit the DMs. @winnipegfreepress.com #wfp

Hi #Winnipeg : I'm working on a story about people opting out of travel south of the border to visit family and friends for the holidays owing to U.S. - Canada relations. Is this you? If so, I'd love to chat. Get at me at nicole.buffie@freepress.mb.ca or hit the DMs. @winnipegfreepress.com #wfp

ICYMI:

Thankful for @winnipegfreepress.com which invests in projects like this, and everyone who listened to me talk obsessively about this tiny northern MB town for two months.

Manitoba's summer wildfire threat was the latest nail in the coffin for once-prosperous Leaf Rapids LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets sky. Ravens patrol the air, pausing to swoop down to in...

Boom-bust mining towns like Leaf Rapids, Man. are fading into oblivion. Some remaining residents are left fighting for the basic necessities of life, others have fled for survival.

This week's #longread explores what was once the crown jewel of the north, and its steep decline over 50 years.

Huge scoop from @maggiemacintosh.bsky.social

Les was a special person and everyone who knew him was better because of it.

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Budget of Winnipeg-based federal water agency to take a hit The fledgling Canada Water Agency, based in Winnipeg, is about to get its funding reduced just two years after the federal Liberal government unveiled it.

The fledgling Canada Water Agency, based in Winnipeg, is about to get its funding reduced just two years after the federal Liberal government unveiled it.

Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level

Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level

Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral, Dies at 99 “The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” she wrote from North Dakota. And suddenly the national media made her a celebrity.

Marilyn Hagerty — who didn’t give a flying breadstick what the cynics thought — became a national celebrity when her review of a North Dakota Olive Garden went viral. She has died at age 99.

Opinion: Searching for answers in wake of horror In the mid-1980s, during a confidential survey of 60 random citizens in Hollow Water First Nation, researchers were shocked to discover that 40 of them had been sexually abused as children, often in r...

In the wake of today’s tragedy in Hollow Water First Nation, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social column is a somber reflection and reminder.
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Child protection experts say Manitoba’s new teacher registry conceals more than it reveals Despite promises that a new teacher registry launched at the start of the year would enhance transparency within the education system and improve children’s safety, critics have dismissed it as weak, ...

Incredible from @jeffkhamilton.bsky.social

Manitoba's new online teacher registry was supposed to improve transparency within the education system and child safety, but the registry fails to disclose some dark secrets.

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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

Extremely Winnipeg road block.

Manitoba’s regional authorities spent over $35M last year in the ongoing effort to keep health-care workers safe Last Christmas Eve, a man walked into Thompson General Hospital with a loaded rifle concealed in his clothing. He moved through the emergency department and other areas — some full of patients — befor...

Manitoba’s regional authorities spent over $35M last year in the ongoing effort to keep beleaguered hospital workers safe — a tenfold increase from ten years ago.

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It is seemingly all quiet on the eastern front as a wildfire rages in Lac du Bonnet. Thank you to everyone who shared their story with me today.

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

📷: People queue at the Vatican to pay their respect to the late Pope Francis, who will lie in state at St. Peter's Basilica for three days, at the Vatican. Over the coming days, tens of thousands of people are expected to pass through the basilica. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via The Associated Press)

The Free Press is looking to speak today to Manitobans who are travelling to Rome to attend Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday.

To share your story, contact our reporter by email at nicole.buffie@winnipegfreepress.com or by phone at 204-891-4633.

New: data shows the use of private security guards is increasing in Manitoba.

Story callout: Ahead of mother's day, I'm looking to speak with Winnipeggers about their childbirth experiences — good, bad and expectations vs reality.

This is for a @winnipegfreepress.com article. Participation means being quoted in the paper and possibly photographed.

DMs open, email in bio.

The Free Press is looking to speak today to Manitobans who paid out-of-pocket for the Shingrix, the vaccine that protects against shingles.

To share your experience and perspective, contact our reporter by email at scott.billeck@winnipegfreepress.com or by phone at 204-470-7367.

Police to announce Ashlee Shingoose is Buffalo Woman, serial killer’s only unidentified victim The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the fourth victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashlee Shingoose of St. Theresa Point First Nation. Cindy Woodhouse Nepina...

Police to announce Ashlee Shingoose is Buffalo Woman, serial killer’s only unidentified victim www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

May Ashley's family finally seek some peace and closure after years of unknowns. Rest in peace.