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Manitoba’s students are settling into a new school year. Whether you graduated in 1986 or 2006, today’s classrooms look very different from the ones you remember.

Students reflect the changing makeup of our communities — differences in social, emotional, physical and cognitive abilities and socioeconomic stresses are all increasingly present and adding to the complexity of our classrooms.

Meeting these differing individual needs is no easy feat. It requires manageable class sizes, school counsellors, social workers, specialized resource teachers and investment in the systems that can help students thrive. But when those supports aren’t available, students’ needs don’t disappear. Increasingly, it falls to classroom teachers to try to fill the gaps.

When I started working as a teacher more than 30 years ago, we had budgets for resources when we needed them. Today, the needs of students have diversified and increased, but the funding for our public schools is failing to meet them.

A suspect has been arrested in a January 2022 shooting in Winnipeg.

Nejib Abdulrished Hassan, 27, has been wanted on an arrest warrant for aggravated assault since Feb. 11, 2022. He was arrested Oct. 3, 2026 in a back lane in the 600 block of Portage Avenue. The Winnipeg Police Service tactical unit and canine unit were involved in the arrest.

Hassan is accused of shooting a man he knew in the lobby of an apartment building in the 1100 block of Portage Avenue on Jan. 31, 2022. The 30-year-old victim was stepping off the elevator when a man in the lobby shot him with a handgun. The victim had life-altering injuries, the Winnipeg Police Service stated.

Hassan is also charged with possession of an unauthorized firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and other weapons charges. Police say officers seized a handgun from Hassan during his arrest.

The Winnipeg Police Service major crimes unit is investigating what some have labelled offensive and hateful posters on full-display at a Winnipeg home.

One of the people irked by the display is Gracie Garrett. She’s has lived on Ashburn Street in Winnipeg’s Minto neighbourhood for almost ten years. She’s never felt unsafe in the neighbourhood before, but now, a set of posters plastered on a nearby house are making her feel uneasy.

The five signs, posted facing the street prominently on a front window, contain a slur, refer to Nazis as “heroes” and call Muslims, Christians and other groups “evil.”

Learning of the signs Friday, Garrett said she’ll be reporting the posters to police, as she worries they incite and promote violence.