Supervised drug consumption site will be grounded in culture, compassion: facility’s leader Winnipeg’s first supervised consumption site is being designed as a culturally grounded health space where people struggling with addiction will be met with familiarity, dignity and support from the moment they enter.

Winnipeg’s first supervised consumption site is being designed as a culturally grounded health space where people struggling with addiction will be met with familiarity, dignity and support from the moment they enter.

Winnipeg startup bets on AI to revive shrinking local news Boring News has chosen a name that invites a smirk, and the site leans into it. Its tagline is “AI-assisted local news. Mostly right. Always boring.” Behind that wink is

Interestingly, this glowing story about Boring News fails to mention the fact that the Winnipeg Sun was publishing the aforementioned AI-generated news slop on its own site earlier this year 🧐

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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:

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Celebration of problem-plagued central home-care office irritates workers Home-care workers are riled up by events to “celebrate” the anniversary of a centralized scheduling system that has been heavily criticized and caused hundreds of missed appointments when it was intro...

Celebration of problem-plagued central home-care office irritates workers
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A big congrats to my colleagues @benwaldman.bsky.social, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social, + the team who covered the tragedy in Hollow Water (@scottbilleck.bsky.social, Chris Kitching, @nicbufflin.bsky.social, @pritchatlarge.bsky.social, Erik Pindera, and @fpcarolsanders.bsky.social) on their noms.

Fatal police shooting and subsequent IIU investigation leave trail of troubling questions in wake of teen’s death in Portage la Prairie After two years, Tara and Kaylan still cannot comprehend how their mild-mannered homebody son, who didn’t cause them any problems or get into trouble at school, who’d never interacted with the police ...

And the second, about the death of Conor Rae, an 18-year-old who was shot and killed by an RCMP officer in Portage la Prairie in May 2023, in an encounter that has left many still unanswered questions for his friends and family.

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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.

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So in major pain and pissing pure blood, I called my surgeon’s answering service at 2am. Thirty minutes later one of my surgeon’s residents found me in the waiting room and got me into a room right away. I shouldn’t have had to do that. 🤦‍♂️
Our healthcare is “free”, but it’s far from good.

4 days after having a kidney removed due to cancer, I went to St B because my urine was the colour of cola.
I was told there would be an 18 hour wait! They only decided to take a urine sample after I raised hell. Then I was told that I wasn’t in danger of dying so I had to keep waiting.

Investigations underway after patients die following multiple-hour ER waits at Winnipeg hospital Two families are seeking answers after their loved ones died following prolonged waits in the St. Boniface Hospital emergency room last month — cases that have sparked an internal hospital review and....

Investigations underway after patients die following multiple-hour ER waits at St. B
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Former Manitobans living in Minnesota wracked with fear, disgust as turmoil continues to unfold Amy Hewett-Olatunde apologizes again and again as her voice cracks at the other end of a phone call, emotions overtaking her mid-sentence. The former Manitoban, who has taught in Minnesota’s Twin Citi...

Waiting to exhale: Former Manitobans living in Minnesota wracked with fear, disgust as turmoil continues to unfold
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Five charged with extortion of core-area convenience stores City police have arrested four men and one woman and are searching for two others in connection with a wave of extortion attempts and arsons that primarily targeted core-area businesses, the Free Pres...

BREAKING: Five charged with extortion of core-area convenience stores
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Yeah. Makes a lot of sense. It’s incredible how much he, and Republicans, are just able to watch him trample everything that makes America American.

Vacant Winnipeg Main Street hotel ‘total loss’ after overnight fire An overnight blaze Wednesday that destroyed a dilapidated hotel, forced the evacuation of about 150 people from a shelter next door and shut down Main Street traffic in both directions is being descri...

Vacant Main Street hotel ‘total loss’ after overnight fire
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Season’s messages of love and joy at St. Vital group home for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities There’s a promise of warmth inside before anyone opens the door. On the deck, a table wearing a thin layer of fresh snow has been transformed into a greeting. “Happy Winter,” it reads, etched by hand....

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Season’s messages of love and joy at St. Vital group home for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities There’s a promise of warmth inside before anyone opens the door. On the deck, a table wearing a thin layer of fresh snow has been transformed into a greeting. “Happy Winter,” it reads, etched by hand....

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Work is being done on that, I assure you. Keep watching this space. Last night wasn’t about getting into the nuance. It was about reporting on the town hall, and what residents and business owners who, mostly, vehemently oppose the idea in their neighbourhood.

I appreciate the suggestion. The story was a report on the town hall, and not a delve into the benefits of a safe consumption site. While people seem to want to help, the context here is they’re already in an impoverished are plagued by crime and drug use. They see SCS as bringing more.

Residents, biz owners plead with NDP to scrap plan for Henry Avenue drug site Many of the residents and business owners who packed a town hall across the street from the proposed supervised drug consumption site in the North Logan neighbourhood on Tuesday night, voiced fierce o...

Residents, biz owners plead with NDP to scrap plan for Henry Avenue drug site

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Few public figures have faced a year as punishing as Pierre Poilievre has in 2025. He started with a 25-point poll lead, only to suffer a dramatic election loss—along with his own seat. Since then, he has watched Liberals near a majority as his MPs abandon him.

Main Street Project says occupants in a lurch after city cleared out Mostyn Park camp

Main Street Project says occupants in a lurch after city cleared out Mostyn Park camp

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It’s very popular, I’m told.

Sour Puss. Staff told me it’s really the only drink that there’s no comparison for.

And some higher-end bourbons out of Kentucky, such as Woodford Reserve.

Sex offender accused in St. Vital school washroom incident twice breached court order at nearby high school: police A convicted sex offender who allegedly grabbed a young girl at a St. Vital elementary school two weeks ago is now facing new charges after police say he showed up twice at a nearby high school in viol...

Sex offender accused in St. Vital school washroom incident twice breached court order at nearby high school: police

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Eager Winnipeggers line up to snap up sorely missed star-spangled booze Lorraine Goudie stepped out of her warm car and into the first spot in a line at the Crestview Liquor Mart — a queue that soon stretched south along the L-shaped strip mall’s corridor on a frigid Wedn...

Eager Winnipeggers line up to snap up sorely missed star-spangled booze

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He was charged in March, as the article states. Released with a slew of conditions, which he breached, as the article says. The community wasn’t alerted, as our previous reporting said, because he essentially didn’t qualify for it. Dakota said police never told them. Police dispute that.

Winnipeg encampment clearing strains agency beyond its limits: Street Links director Marion Willis picked up her phone Thursday morning sounding both exasperated and exhausted. “I’m just swamped,” the executive director of St. Boniface Street Links said with a deep sigh. “I’m frustrat...

Encampment clearing strains agency beyond its limits: Street Links director

Says ban lacks support strategy; city touts ‘compassionate approach’

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Parents miffed by lack of communication about sex offender involved in school incident Parents are concerned they weren’t warned a convicted sex offender, who is accused of grabbing a child in an elementary school last week, had been removed from a nearby high school that morning and in...

Parents miffed by lack of communication about sex offender involved in school incident

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Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud believes she’ll have greater impact by attacking homelessness on another front If there is one thing Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud knows, it’s that tackling Winnipeg’s homelessness crisis requires support and ideas from all corners of the city. She has witnessed the crisis’s impact f...

‘She’s kind of that unicorn’
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Keeping the lights on: Winnipeg restaurants plan security upgrades in aftermath of arsons A serial arson spree in Winnipeg could lead to security changes for MLAs and their constituency offices, while some business owners spend thousands to add surveillance cameras or brighter lights.

Keeping the lights on: restaurants plan security upgrades in aftermath of arsons
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