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Niigaan Sinclair:

Someone call the PM: next governor general doesn’t speak a single Indigenous language

This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney selected former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as the country’s 31st governor general. Read More

Maggie Macintosh:

‘Profound act of truth and reconciliation’

École Mazina-Giizhik named in honour of late judge Murray Sinclair Read More

Carol Sanders:

Ottawa says vaccination clinics in works for northern region with hepatitis A outbreak

The federal government is working to help contain the hepatitis A outbreak that has hit the remote Island Lake region in northern Manitoba. Read More

Julia-Simone Rutgers:

The green economic machine

Nature is a big part of the Canadian economy — but how big? We crunched the numbers. Read More

David McLaughlin:

A new governor general and a return to the culture wars

The culture wars have come for Canada’s next governor general. The institutional symbol of our country’s constitutional monarchy is the latest symbol of cultural conflict between conservatives against progressives, rightists versus leftists, populists over elitists. Read More

John Andrew Hart:

Manitoba’s flag: A symbol of shared heritage at 60

On a fair spring afternoon 60 years ago, the Flag of Manitoba made its debut at the provincial legislature. In what the Winnipeg Free Press called an “impressive ceremony,” then-lieutenant-governor Richard Bowles formally proclaimed the new provincial flag on May 12, 1966. Read More

Barry Prentice:

North-south connections — and dirigibles

Two headlines appeared in the Free Press on April 22, concerning chronic problems that have no apparent resolution. The topics are high food prices in remote northern communities and the growing popul... Read More

Maggie Macintosh:

‘Working with heads, hearts, and hands’

Winnipeg School Division creates network between four inner-city schools Read More

John Longhurst:

Retired local spiritual care practitioner given award

A retired Winnipeg spiritual care practitioner has received a national award for her decades of work on behalf of patients and for those who work in the field. Read More