Free Press Head Start for April 15

Nicole Buffie:

‘Trying to erase my candidacy’: Liberal laments election sign theft

A Liberal candidate says theft in his rural Manitoba riding is a sign of democracy suppression. Read More

Malak Abas:

A Liberal cabinet minister, a silent Tory and an NDP rookie walk into Winnipeg South…

Changing, more affluent face of Manitoba’s most populous riding, redistribution could benefit Conservatives despite Duguid’s deep roots, political scientist says Read More

Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press:

Party leaders make promises on job skills training, scam protection for seniors

OTTAWA - The main federal parties campaigned in the Montreal area Tuesday, with the Liberals pitching a new training benefit for mid-career workers and the Conservatives promising to protect ... Read More

Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press:

Poilievre’s pledge to use notwithstanding clause a ‘dangerous sign’: legal expert

MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences for multiple murders — a pledge one constitutional expert c... Read More

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press:

Carney apologizes for staffers who planted buttons at Conservative conference

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Monday it was "unacceptable" for his party's campaign staffers to plant fake buttons at a conservative conference in Ottawa last week — a move the Conservatives say imitated American-style political tactics. Read More

Deveryn Ross:

Mark Carney in the political crosshairs

The upcoming debates are likely to resemble a four-on-one brawl, or attempted mugging, with Liberal Leader Mark Carney the target of the other party leaders’ attacks. Read More

Chris Kitching:

Number of critical-incident deaths ‘very worrying,’ nurses union says, pointing to staff shortages

The two deaths were among 37 critical incidents that occurred in health-care settings, such as hospitals and personal-care homes, between July 1 and Sept. 30, 2024, the province’s latest quarterly report said. In all, 11 people died and 26 suffered a “major” injury. Diagnosis or treatment delays, or missed opportunities for intervention or monitoring were cited in some incidents. Read More

Dean Pritchard:

‘Did not have a chance’: youth killer failed by child welfare system

A Winnipeg teen arrested following a pair of street gang shootings that left one woman dead and sent five others to hospital was doomed by a child welfare system that robbed him of any chance to succeed, his former foster mother told a judge last week. Read More

Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press:

Manitoba ends some electricity exports to U.S., with plans to turn northward

WINNIPEG - Manitoba will soon have more energy for itself and other Canadian jurisdictions after two hydroelectric contracts with a Minnesota utility expire at the end of this month, Premier ... Read More

Joyanne Pursaga:

Ninety-five fraud, waste allegations against City of Winnipeg’s ‘bad apples’

Anonymous reports decline again Read More

Ken Wiebe:

The who’s who of who’s next

Blues, Wild or Flames could be Jets first round opponent Read More

Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press:

Canada turns page on women’s world hockey prelims with 7-1 win over host Czechs

ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE - Canada was still a work in progress heading into playoffs at the women's world hockey championship, but its last period before the quarterfinals was a scoring bonanza. ... Read More

Judy Owen, The Canadian Press:

Winnipeg Jets aiming for more than the franchise’s first Presidents’ Trophy

WINNIPEG - Dylan DeMelo wants to bring Canadian hockey fans more than a Presidents’ Trophy. The Winnipeg Jets clinched the franchise’s first Presidents’ Trophy Sunday for most points in the NHL reg... Read More

Conrad Sweatman:

Utopian dance

Music and landscapes meld in kaleidoscopic exhibition Read More

AV Kitching:

Elder’s story of residential school abuse finally told

By the time she was eight, Betty Ross had been abandoned by her mother, then adopted and cared for by a loving Indigenous family, before being kidnapped by a Catholic priest and taken to a residential school, where she endured years of beating and verbal abuse from the nuns. Now Ross’s story is the subject of the hourlong docudrama, Return to the Falls, which has its Winnipeg première on Wednesday. Read More

Get ready to drive the BTO

Motorists will soon be able to “let it ride” on a major Winnipeg thoroughfare named in honour of a celebrated local rock outfit. Read More

Gabrielle Piché:

Seeking ‘better relations with Canada’

Delegation of European ambassadors, high commissioners talk trade, energy, minerals in keystone province Read More

Martin Cash:

Revving up Manitoba’s startup ecosystem at RampUp Weekend

Close to 200 participants, most of whom who didn’t know each other before Friday night, participated in the 16th iteration of North Forge’s RampUp Weekend. Read More

Editorial:

Home-care solution no solution at all

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has rolled out a new centralized scheduling system for home-care services and, according to many who work in the system, it’s failing badly. Read More

Chris Avery:

The benefits of our Arctic trade corridor

The Arctic Gateway Group spoke about the importance of the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Railway long before the current trade war with the U.S. and rhetoric of Canada becoming the 51st state. Read More

Randy Guzman:

Stepping up U.S. doctor recruitment

Manitoba is still in the middle of a severe physician shortage with the second-lowest number of doctors per capita in Canada. Read More