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Police HQ settlement, surgery-wait death, vape-shop empire, and microbial art

Good evening. Here’s a look at what our newsroom has been working on today:

 

'A gamble from the city'

Joyanne Pursaga:

Not one cent of police HQ millions has been paid to city

'No funds' from the settlement have been collected: report Read More

 
 
 

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'A desperate need for radical honesty in our health-care system'

Chris Kitching:

‘We trusted the system to save her’

Manitoba woman’s family pushes for law to tell wait-list patients they won’t get life-saving treatment in recommended time Read More

 
 

'Any type of expansion or improvement, we are in for it'

Martin Cash:

Fat Panda vape chain secures new partnership in $18M deal

Twelve years after Jordan Vedoya and two partners opened the first Fat Panda vape shop in Winnipeg, the company has grown into a chain of 33 stores from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., to Martensville, Sask. Read More

 
 

'This ideal model of coexistence'

Jen Zoratti:

Microbial legacy of Group of Seven

Double exhibition zooms in on the tools and trees employed by influential Canadian art group Read More

 
 
 

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Local

Tessa Adamski: Girl pleads guilty to assaulting fellow student
Nicole Buffie: Drug site open house called off after media tipped off
Tyler Searle: Métis federation opens Louis Riel College campus
Malak Abas: South Osborne residents fail in bid to prevent construction of 131-unit apartment tower
Erik Pindera: Province, MPI want court to toss Tesla bid for review of exclusion from EV rebate program
Chris Kitching: IIU clears WPS officers who fired shots at stolen truck in 2025 West End incident
Dean Pritchard: Crown wants 20-year sentence for man who sexually abused young girls
Erik Pindera: Hydro, governments could face class action suit over lengthy power outage
Zoe Pierce: Running for others’ lives from coast to coast in oppressive heat, smoke-filled air
By Tiago Resko: Rare white buffalo gets dignified sendoff
 

Opinion

Editorial: 911: It’s a matter of life and death
John R. Wiens: Time for a democratic reset
Hersh Seth: Use it twice: a data centre we could support
Erna Buffie: It isn’t ‘just the weather’
Conrad Sweatman: Singing the praises of fringe shows that dare to take risks
Paul G. Thomas: Understanding the police HQ inquiry
Tory McNally: Great workplace shorts debate: time to free knees
Free Press: Letters, July 30
Judith Dueck: No museum can tell the whole story
Stuart Williams: The alternative to natural gas-powered turbines is in the ground
 

Arts & Life

Maureen Scurfield: Drop bravado and cease silly summer spat
Georgia Nicols: Today’s horoscope
Eva Wasney: Living the strongman life means special training for special strength
Mike McIntyre: Cross Lake pro blueliner walks away from sport he loves to live and work in northern community he loves even more
Conrad Sweatman: In an apartment above the Sherbie, famous local artists line the walls
David Sanderson: For unique Menno-centric take on Free Press, satirist mines her jibes between the lines
Jen Zoratti: Cultural consultation gives Indigenous stories strength in Netflix’s new Little House on the Prairie
Tiago Resko: Arjun Lal exhibition explores how society remains shaped by colonialism
Eva Wasney: Sottobraccio brings Harth’s Italian flavours to new location in Osborne Village
Tiago Resko: WAG wraps exhibition showcasing fine art of a sweet bike
 

Sports

Grace Penner: Soccer facility gets $750K from province for upgrades
Grace Penner: Trailblazer Kati Tabin brings PWHL championship trophy home to share success, inspire next generation
Ken Wiebe: Bombers receiver’s lateral recovery still talk of the town
Free Press: Sweet sendoff for apprentice jockey
Grace Penner: Winnipegger Bairos-Novak medals at wheel gymnastics worlds
Cassidy Dankochik: Carillon baseball team takes third straight MJBL title
Mike McIntyre: Fanning captures second straight senior’s title, while Martens’ provincial victory 27 years in the taking
Taylor Allen: Clean game a must for Bombers to pull out win at home
The Canadian Press: Canada’s Sarah Mitton repeats as women’s shot put champion at Commonwealth Games
Josh Dubow, The Associated Press: Macklin Celebrini gets 5-year, $94M extension from the Sharks in the NHL’s richest deal ever
 

Business

Gabrielle Piché: Downtown Winnipeg comedy club Yuk Yuk’s closes
Free Press staff: Manitoba receives top marks for reducing internal trade barriers
Daniel Johnson, The Canadian Press: Canadian, U.S. markets drop as oil prices rise amid continued Middle East fighting
Dylan Lovan, The Associated Press: KFC founder Colonel Sanders’ signature bow tie and personal planner sell at auction
Gabrielle Piché: Pilot project targets defence contract tracking
The Canadian Press: Bell rolling out new tool to detect and flag spoofed phone calls using AI
Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press: ‘Drive day and night’: TFI plans to roll out driverless trucks in U.S.
Gabrielle Piché: Manitoba Innovates seeks to pump up in-person networking as artificial intelligence-created resumés become norm
Leah Willingham, The Associated Press: eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask
Aaron Epp: Qualico celebrating 75 years of growth, success since its first development of 13 bungalows in River Heights
 

Tariff news

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press: Canada calls for unity, pushes back on U.S. tariffs as G7 ministers gather in Quebec
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press: Canadian pride surges in face of Trump’s tariff, sovereignty threats: Leger poll
Craig Lord, The Canadian Press: U.S. trade ‘crisis’ will drive up prices, Bank of Canada warns after rate cut
Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press: TSX rises, U.S. markets mixed after more tariffs take effect, BoC cuts rate
Allison Jones, The Canadian Press: Ford talks to Carney, premiers ahead of trade meeting in Washington
Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press: From tallboys to houses, latest aluminum and steel tariffs driving up costs
Maura Forrest, The Canadian Press: Canadian mayors, workers worry about ‘permanent damage’ from Trump tariffs
Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press: From tallboys to houses, latest aluminum and steel tariffs driving up costs
The Canadian Press: Saskatchewan planning to support steelworkers in response to U.S. tariffs: Moe
 
 

Canada

Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press: Mark Carney to be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister Friday
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press: U.S. gender backlash hitting UN agencies, Canadian ambassador Bob Rae says
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press: B.C. RCMP conduct hearing delayed over disclosure issues, possible publication ban
Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press: Quebec court to hear appeal from Just for Laughs founder sued for alleged sex assault
The Canadian Press: B.C.’s New Democrat government and Greens finalize confidence agreement
The Canadian Press: N.L. fishing crew rescued after days adrift in raft had good safety practices: report
Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press: N.B. Pride group invites LGBTQ+ Americans dealing with the ‘scary’ reality of Trump
David Friend, The Canadian Press: Jeremy Dutcher joins other musicians and withdraws from East Coast Music Awards amid leadership turmoil
Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press: Cuts to U.S. weather agency will be felt in Canada — especially in hurricane season
Nono Shen, The Canadian Press: Canada-linked team finds Saturn has 128 more moons, leaving Jupiter in cosmic dust
 

World

The Associated Press: Pressed to accept a ceasefire in Ukraine, Putin seems likely to seek his own conditions
Abdul Sattar And Munir Ahmed, The Associated Press: Pakistan says insurgents who attacked a passenger train killed 21 hostages while all others freed
Monika Pronczuk, The Associated Press: Congo and M23 rebel group will hold peace talks on Tuesday, mediator Angola says
Darlene Superville, The Associated Press: Trump says Ireland cheats the US as its leader joins him to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
Mike Corder, The Associated Press: ICC takes custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in crimes against humanity case
Matías Delacroix And Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press: They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama
Nicholas Riccardi And Christine Fernando, The Associated Press: Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech. Critics say his actions as president threaten it
Matías Delacroix And Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press: They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama
Danica Kirka, The Associated Press: Greenland’s election winners push back against Trump’s wish to take control of the island
The Associated Press: A volcano near Alaska’s largest city could erupt in the coming weeks or months, scientists say
Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press: NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
 

One last thing...

Julio Cortez And Nadia Lathan, The Associated Press:

This ‘Dune’ isn’t fiction. It’s the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas

KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It's a new ... Read More

 
 

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