Free Press Head Start for April 24

Shelley Cook:

RRC Polytech event shines spotlight on Indigenous talent

RRC Polytech’s Manitou a bi Bii daziigae campus was abuzz April 19, with students, faculty, staff and community members coming together to connect and celebrate Indigenous culture through food, fashion and music. The Winnipeg school’s annual RBC Reaction by Collision event — Food, Fashion, and Music — highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in Indigenous culture. Read More

Cindy Tran, The Canadian Press:

Treasury Board pens open letter on bargaining

OTTAWA - The federal government offered to do a joint review of its return-to-office orders for civil servants but hasn't budged on its latest wage offer, as a strike of the government'... Read More

Aaron Epp:

Driven to make a difference

Lori Robinson values the connections she makes with appreciative clients during her weekly Meals on Wheels delivery shift Read More

Jeff Hamilton:

Samberg faces the music over giveaway gaffe

It was written all over Dylan Samberg’s face. The Winnipeg Jets defenceman was visibly uncomfortable the moment he took his seat at the podium at Canada Life Centre Sunday afternoon, knowing exactly w... Read More

Mike McIntyre:

Cockerill agonizingly close to first pro victory

Lips out birdie putt in Japan playoff on DP Tour Read More

The Canadian Press:

Canada's Jones, Laing take first loss at worlds

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - Canada’s Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing suffered their first loss of the world mixed doubles curling championship on Sunday in South Korea. ... Read More

Alan Small:

New reign

WAG to auction Warhol queen prints to raise funds for First Nations, Métis works Read More

Holly Harris:

Manitoba Opera’s Mozart production transports the audience to Canadian wilderness

More Canadian than a bottle of maple syrup or a hockey game Saturday night, Manitoba Opera’s witty new production of Mozart’s opera buffa “Cosi fan tutte,” (“Women are Like that”) billed as a “Canuck ... Read More

Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press:

Small business owners working eight-day week: CFIB

TORONTO - A new study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says the average small business owner is working the equivalent of an eight-day workweek due to staffing challen... Read More

Barbara Bowes:

Happy campers keep it positive

Negative politics can leave a workplace divided into opposing factions with divergent goals Read More

Joel Schlesinger:

The price of pets

Ownership can involve surprising costs, all of which are rising thanks to inflation Read More

Editorial:

Danger shouldn’t be part of the job

On Easter Sunday, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service paramedic was hospitalized after an attack by a patient inside an ambulance. The victim? A relatively newly hired paramedic. Read More

Niigaan Sinclair:

Territorial acknowledgments seeds for growth, action

Territorial acknowledgments are seeds; opportunities for truth-telling, growth and action. They require us to plant, nurture and care for them, so we must take seriously the responsibilities they require of us. Read More

Alexis Kanu:

Let’s use a pollution solution that works

For years, we’ve been told it wasn’t possible, only to find it’s been quietly working for months at the city’s second-largest sewage treatment plant. Chemical phosphorus reduction, using ferric chloride, has been so successful at Winnipeg’s South End Water Pollution Control Centre that the plant is now releasing effluent with a phosphorus concentration of one-10th its legal limit. Read More