For the youngest learners
One high school in Winnipeg is celebrating 100 years of teaching and learning! How old is your school? How could you find out what life was like when it opened? What has changed? What has stayed the same?
One Winnipegger has created a board game that is winning awards and selling thousands of copies! If you made a board game what would it be about? What would it look like? What would the rules be?
“Superheros” rappelled down the side of the Children’s Hospital to help cheer up sick kids. What are some things that cheer you up when you’re sick? What are some things you’ve done to cheer someone else up?
See our full collection of news for young children here.
News for debate and discussion
Should the records of testimonies of residential school survivors be destroyed?
Should the provincial government introduce practices that more equally distribute question opportunities for independent MLAs?
See our full collection of topics for debate and discussion here.
News by school subject
A round-up of the latest Free Press news articles, with suggestions for use in the classroom. Click on any subject name below to access our full online archive of stories related to that subject.
Entrepreneur fills gap in food waste market:
Corporate responsibilities and reparations for environmental harms, no matter the scale:
The story of Jordan’s Principle comes alive at MTYP:
The resilience and importance of the arts even (and especially) in crises:
The inner world and process of ballet choreography:
Jen Zoratti:
Modern myths
RWB updates classic Slavic folk tales as part of Stravinsky-based double bill Read More
Employers are no longer allowed to demand employees produce sick notes for short-term illnesses, elevating conversations about workplace integrity:
Tory McNally:
No more notes
Manitoba marks end of sending simple workplace problems to doctor’s office Read More
The very risky world of prediction-market gambling will be coming to Canada:
Winnipeg about to become awash in literary events:
Free library services for young offenders have been mysteriously cut from the Manitoba Youth Justice Centre:
Quebec politician absolutely dragged by colleagues and critics for using AI to write book:
The contentious legacy of French Canada’s relationship with the Crown:
U.S. trade tariffs a boon to local farms and fisheries:
Tech choices of modern families:
The lasting impact of one person’s quest for reconciliation:
The question of what to do with the confidentiality of residential school survivors’ stories:
MMIWG as inspiration for contemporary local music:
Relationships and ratios between mined raw materials and the amount of precious minerals they contain:
Polling statistics of Winnipeg citizens regarding how we feel about our city government’s performance:
Issues of systemic inequity in women’s sports, and specifically high school hockey:
The threat to health presented by prediction market gambling apps:
How scientific understanding changes over time, and why that matters:
The Order of Canada is our nation’s highest honour for community service. Read about this year’s recipients:
Japanese-Canadians reflect on past internment through new monument:
Managing campaign communications for a political candidate:
Malak Abas:
Gillingham on the go
Winnipeg’s mayor, seeking a second term in the upcoming election, does double duty while hitting the campaign trail Read More
Fashion from Paris reacts to worldwide economic downturn:
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