Exhibition celebrates life stories of COVID’s earliest, most isolated victims
The failures of Canada’s residential care system inspired Megan Davies to create COVID in the House of Old, a touring storytelling exhibit that is currently on view at the Millennium Library in Winnipeg.
Clear-cut case of oversight
Ecologists allege Manitoba puts forestry industry before biodiversity by allowing logging in Duck Mountain Provincial Park.
City of Winnipeg might look at how to cut fossil fuel use
The City of Winnipeg may soon explore ways to save money on carbon taxes by cutting the fossil fuel consumption of some of its buildings.
Unearthing opportunity and angst
Opponents of a proposed silica sand mining project in Manitoba say the company, Sio Silica, is glossing over complex science and downplaying risks.
Calculating climate costs into the price of your next bottle
There are steps we can take to be kinder to the Earth as it pertains to wine-drinking habits — seeing as grape-growing and winemaking impact the planet, and rarely for the better, it’s worth considering when picking out your next bottle of wine.
Focus should be on mental health supports to save police lives
If the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police wants to better protect officers in the wake of a string of cop killings across the country, focusing on bail reform is probably not the answer, writes Winnipeg Free Press columnist Tom Brodbeck.
What Linda Beardy needed was love; an apathetic society offered a trash bin
Can we commit to one simple thing: that landfills, garbage bins and streets must never be places for Indigenous remains? Our track record suggests we can’t.
Out of pocket, out of patience
Rampant retail theft is impacting the bottom line, staff morale and customers’ limited resources already strained by high inflation.
Pope’s statement remarkable but means little
Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on what the Doctrine of Discovery has meant for Christians, Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.
AFN leader keeps big picture in sight
Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair spoke with RoseAnne Archibald about the “difficult” task of leading the Assembly of First Nations.