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Brandon Ingram shot 3-for-15 from the field tonight & finished with a 23.3 TS%.

It's the worst TS% by a Raptor with at least 15 attempts in a playoff game all-time.

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This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices The influence of Guided by Voices has seeped into all corners of pop—here's where to start.

With album No. 43 dropping next month, I put together a guide to Guided by Voices for @bandcamp.com Daily, featuring input from @sad13.horse, Good Flying Birds, @ratboysband.bsky.social, Kiwi Jr., @weirdnightmare.bsky.social and 2nd Grade: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/guided...

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False information, misleading images rife in Manitoba-based AI-driven 'news' service In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the rise of Boring News, an AI-generated news outlet, highlights the growing tension between technology and journalism. While it aims to fill local news gaps acr...

Boring News is marketed as a solution to declining local news in Canada. In reality, the website is AI news slop filled with errors, made up quotes and fake photos.

My story for the @winnipegfreepress.com:

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

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UP IN SMOKE: Cannabis vapes causing fires at Brady landfill City launches trial on collection of vapes at 4R depots

Discarded cannabis packaging and related products are posing ongoing challenges to Winnipeg’s waste-and-recycling streams — including becoming a fire hazard at the Brady Road landfill.

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Peguis First Nation declares state of emergency The Peguis First Nation declared a state of emergency as leadership said flooding is now a certainty.

The Peguis First Nation declared a state of emergency as leadership said flooding is now a certainty.

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CP3 after the Clippers loss lmao

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Venerable Winnipeg music venue celebrates 25 years with changes that stay true to its roots In the weeks since the trusty old bartop was dismantled and a longer one was built in the backroom at the Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, the venue’s self-appointed president and janitor Joh...

Sometimes one place (and one person) can have a disproportionate effect on the livability of a city. Thank you John Scoles for Times Changed (and for Blue Note Park, one of my favourite summer places in Winnipeg). From @benwaldman.bsky.social www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

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Cadence Weapon, Junia-T - Toronto Zoo (feat. James Baley) [Official Video]
Cadence Weapon, Junia-T - Toronto Zoo (feat. James Baley) [Official Video] YouTube video by Cadence Weapon

This is the final single from my upcoming album Forager, dropping in two weeks!

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Manitoba First Nation, premier call for military aid as flooding threatens community WINNIPEG – A First Nation prone to flooding and the Manitoba government are calling for help from the Canadian military as spring conditions are putting the community at risk of flooding again.

WINNIPEG – A First Nation prone to flooding and the Manitoba government are calling for help from the Canadian military as spring conditions are putting the community at risk of flooding again.

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‘You deserve to wallow in the shame that is your life’: Kinew blasts Khan for comment about non-binary MLA Premier Wab Kinew pressed Tory Leader Obby Khan on Thursday to acknowledge and take responsibility for “dehumanizing” and “hateful” comments toward Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara, who is non-binary.

Premier Wab Kinew pressed Tory Leader Obby Khan on Thursday to acknowledge and take responsibility for “dehumanizing” and “hateful” comments toward Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara, who is non-binary.

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Alert: The plate is on a SAAB

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two panel comic titled “lmao this license plate i saw the other day”

1. an old shitty toyota camry or something idk it was a bit of a beater car
2. close up on the license plate. it says “SOBBING”

two panel comic titled “lmao this license plate i saw the other day” 1. an old shitty toyota camry or something idk it was a bit of a beater car 2. close up on the license plate. it says “SOBBING”

i can’t draw cars but i had to share the best license plate i’ve ever seen #comic

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It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

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Indian Act's ‘second-generation cut-off’ poses an existential threat to treaty people in Canada Thanks to the Indian Act’s ‘second-generation cut-off,’ First Nations people face a baffling and offensive equation when it comes to their status rights.

Proud this morning to see two of my stories from last year recognized with National Newspaper Award nominations.

The first, about the second-generation cut-off, which has been referred to as a genocide “in paper form” for First Nations people.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202...

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‘It’s great that I can go and represent and show out’ Winnipeg’s Lasu one of five Canadians on LIU battling in March Madness

It is perhaps the closest thing Canada could have to a team in the NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball tournament and — of course — Winnipeg has a hand in it.

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JONATHAN KUMINGA DID WHAT?!?!?!

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Big news today: the Free Press media literacy and learning project has been selected as finalist for an International News Media Association Global Media Award in the Best Public Service Project category. The awards will be handed out in May in Berlin. This is...uh...bananas. And awesome.

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Winnipeg police say a two-year-old boy who had been reported missing in an Amber Alert earlier today has been found safely.

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Fossilized vomit provides insight on dinosaur that lived 290 million years ago BRANDON — A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify dinosaur barf that’s nearly 290 million years old — and could be the oldest known example of fossilized vomit from a land-dwelling predator.

BRANDON — A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify dinosaur barf that’s nearly 290 million years old — and could be the oldest known example of fossilized vomit from a land-dwelling predator.

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Getting the Team Canada band back together Morrissey, Marchand poised to return from injury for quarterfinal rumble

MILAN — Josh Morrissey is raring to go. Which is perfectly understandable given the way recent international hockey events have played out for the Winnipeg Jets defenceman.

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Family of woman who died after 11-hour wait in ER calls for inquiry The family of a woman who died following an 11-hour wait in a Winnipeg emergency room last month has added its voice to demands for a public inquiry.

The family of a woman who died following an 11-hour wait in a Winnipeg emergency room last month has added its voice to demands for a public inquiry.

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Man arrested for fatal crash that killed Royal Canoe bassist A 37-year-old man has been arrested in a fatal crash last summer that killed three people, including the bassist from local indie pop band Royal Canoe.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested in a fatal crash last summer that killed three people, including the bassist from local indie pop band Royal Canoe.

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Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77 The role, one of his first, made him a household name and a film idol of the anti-establishment 1970s. But it also limited his growth as an actor.

Bud Cort, the actor best known for playing Harold in the 1971 comedy “Harold and Maude,” has died at 77.

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The @winnipegfreepress.com is at the #MilanoCortinaOlympic2026.

I’ll be posting a running thread here with my stories and features throughout the Games.

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Ciao!

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seeing the nyt publish a eulogy for the wapo sports dept a few years after the nyt outsourced 95% of its sports journalism to the athletic 🫠

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From @bhobs22.bsky.social today ⬇️

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

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Teen’s emotional family members open inquest into her police shooting death Family members fought through tears Monday as they stood in a provincial courtroom and shared memories of 16-year-old Eishia Hudson, who was shot and killed by Winnipeg police at the end of a 2020 vehicle chase.

Family members fought through tears Monday as they stood in a provincial courtroom and shared memories of 16-year-old Eishia Hudson, who was shot and killed by Winnipeg police at the end of a 2020 vehicle chase.

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the chicken carwash is about to become a chicken carwash gas station

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which streaming service is going to be brave enough to finally make THE DREW CAREY SHOW available in Canada?

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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.

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