
Katie May
Reporter
Katie has more than a decade of reporting experience. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she is focusing on public-health coverage with an eye toward systemic policy issues.
She joined the Free Press as a copy editor in December 2013 and has covered courts and crime beats for the newspaper.
She chased news in Ontario, Nova Scotia — where she completed a bachelor of journalism with combined honours in Canadian Studies at the University of King’s College — the Northwest Territories and Alberta before she arrived in Manitoba.
Recent articles of Katie May
Manitoba task force to target doctors’ paperwork burden
3 minute read Preview Yesterday at 4:41 PM CSTHospital staff will ask Manitobans to self-identify race in effort to reduce health-system discrimination
4 minute read Preview Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023Flu, RSV numbers down at Children’s Hospital
2 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023Manitobans fighting COVID fines lose in court
7 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023Patient’s patience not a virtue: he waited years for spinal surgery assigned to MD who left Manitoba
2 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023Jeff Delaney put his faith in Manitoba’s health-care system.
Now he’s advising others not to make the same mistake, lest they fall through the cracks.
Thompson resident headed back to Winnipeg for rescheduled hip surgery
2 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023Physicians drowning in ‘soul-sucking’ paperwork, Doctors Manitoba president says
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 30, 2023Southern chiefs want voice in national health-care funding talks
2 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 30, 2023Health official answers sex assault nurse program critics, says fixes on the way
3 minute read Preview Friday, Jan. 27, 2023Threats temporarily close three Manitoba schools
3 minute read Preview Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023Holy Family care home misses CUPE workers’ retroactive pay deadline
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023Morale teetering at Manitoba Clinic
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023Manitoba Clinic losing more docs, deal critical
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023Bail denied for co-accused in library homicide
2 minute read Preview Friday, Jan. 20, 2023Frostbite flourished amid pandemic closures: advocates
3 minute read Preview Friday, Jan. 20, 2023Pandemic restrictions that resulted in limited operations at homeless shelters last winter are partly to blame for a 10-year high in severe frostbite cases, outreach workers say.
Suspect in unsolved 1979 Winnipeg slaying charged with kidnapping in Alberta
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023An Alberta man who was a suspect in a local unsolved murder case has been charged with kidnapping.
Lester Landry, 65, is accused of confining a woman in a vehicle and driving her to a secluded area against her will after she responded to his ad for housekeeping services.
The woman escaped the vehicle when it slowed down on a highway near the outskirts of Medicine Hat and called police on Jan. 14, the Medicine Hat Police Service announced in a news release Wednesday.
Store owner seeks social media assist to snap break-in string
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023Manitoba ‘poor performance’ mars accessibility standards report card
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 16, 2023Manitoba accessibility advocates have issued the provincial government a passing grade — barely — when it comes to implementing and enforcing accessibility standards legislation on behalf of people with disabilities.
Barrier Free Manitoba has published a mock report card with an overall D grade, outlining its concerns with the province’s progress — and what the organization describes as a lack of consultation — in bringing into force the Accessibility for Manitobans Act.
However, the non-profit coalition gave Manitoba F grades on protecting people with disabilities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, on the existing complaints process, and on what it describes as a provincial failure to honour a human rights focus and basic intent of the legislation.