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The Manitoba NDP government says it has surpassed its goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers since taking office more than a year ago. The exterior of the Manitoba Legislature is seen in Winnipeg, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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Manitoba surpasses goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers, says health minister

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Manitoba surpasses goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers, says health minister

Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government has surpassed its goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers since taking office more than a year ago, but the news is receiving mixed responses from some groups who represent health-care staff.

The province announced on Friday that from last April to the end of December it hired 1,255 net-new health-care workers, including nurses, physicians and midwives, to work within the public system.

"Each and every one of these 1,255 frontline health-care workers have joined our system because they want to care for their neighbours, their fellow citizens (and) their community members," Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara told news reporters.

The NDP government committed to hiring 100 doctors, 210 nurses and 600 health-care aides as part of its 2024 budget.

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Vertebrate paleontologist Maximilian Scott handles the fossilized jaw of a tylosaurus (a type of mosasaur) jaw in the University of Manitoba paleontology lab.
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Paleontologist makes strides toward understanding the way mosasaurs behaved

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Paleontologist makes strides toward understanding the way mosasaurs behaved

AV Kitching 6 minute read Monday, Jan. 20, 2025

Maximilian Scott is a vertebrate paleontologist who focuses on extinct animal behaviour and behavioural evolution. Scott, 27, from Ovid, Mich., is in the last year of his master’s degree at the University of Manitoba studying mosasaurs, an ancient marine lizard that lived in Manitoba during the late-Cretaceous period.

He also offers tutoring in geology, biology, animal behaviour and conservation to people of all ages. You can find him on Instagram.

Our story doesn’t start with the first book that was written, our story starts a long time before that, a long time before the first humans. It’s all one long story.

Humans have only existed for 200,000 years. The Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years. Life has been around for three billion years, and complex life has been around for 542 million years.

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Monday, Jan. 20, 2025
Marta Guerrero photo Linh Tran avec certains des biscuits à trouver sur sa boutique en ligne.
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Le rêve sucré de Linh Tran

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Le rêve sucré de Linh Tran

Jonathan Semah 4 minute read Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025

Avec Rêverie, une boulangerie sans gluten, Linh Tran voit un projet qu’elle a en tête depuis plusieurs années se concrétiser. Si elle s’est lancée dans le sans gluten, c’est avant tout pour des raisons personnelles. Mais, elle observe une demande en hausse année après année.

Tartes, cookies, beignets, gâteaux, desserts et biscuits, en parcourant la page Instagram et le site web de Rêverie, difficile de résister à la tentation face à toutes ces douceurs. Mais pour en arriver là, il a fallu des années d’essais et de pratique à Linh Tran.

Alors qu’elle a quitté son emploi au Centre de santé Saint-Boniface il y a quelques mois, la pâtissière est maintenant totalement concentrée sur Rêverie.

Une passion dès l’enfance

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Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS FILES The Magellan Aerospace building in Winnipeg.
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Province invests $17M in Magellan Aerospace to create additional jobs, training

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Province invests $17M in Magellan Aerospace to create additional jobs, training

Martin Cash 5 minute read Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025

The NDP government is continuing its aggressive support of Manitoba’s aerospace industry, announcing Thursday a significant investment in Magellan Aerospace.

The province is providing Magellan with an $8 million grant and a $9 million loan (to be repaid over 12 years). The investment expects to lead to the creation of more than 60 positions at Magellan. (Its current workforce is about 650.)

The financial assistance will leverage additional capital investment from the company. It is a global player in the aerospace industry, with head offices in the Greater Toronto Area. In addition to its Winnipeg plant, Magellan has three manufacturing operations in Ontario, six in the U.S, six in Europe and two in India.

The Winnipeg plant has been around for close to 100 years. In addition to being a centre of excellence for the company when it comes to machining aero-engine parts, it is also Magellan’s space centre, having manufactured five satellites currently orbiting the Earth.

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Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025
Fashion designer and clothier Katelyn Woodburn poses in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Victoria Black *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Slow fashion houses embrace made-to-order to reduce waste

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Slow fashion houses embrace made-to-order to reduce waste

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

TORONTO - On occasion, fashion designer and clothier Katelyn Woodburn is accused of running a scam.

When a customer makes a purchase without reading the "about" section on her website or following her on social media, they might send an email a week or two later saying something like: "Where's my order? It hasn't even shipped yet? What's going on?" Woodburn recounted from her Vancouver studio.

"Which is a totally reasonable response," she added. Consumers are conditioned to expect instant gratification when it comes to clothes shopping, but that's not really how Woodburn does things.

"I'll say, 'Oh, your shirt is being cut out. We're going to sew it tomorrow.' I tell them the whole process of what's happening. And 100 per cent of the time, I get a response going, 'Oh my gosh, I didn't even realize. This is so cool, no rush at all.'"

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Friday, Oct. 10, 2025
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Pervasive poverty demonstrates an unjust society

Andrew Lodge 5 minute read Monday, Dec. 16, 2024

Althea waits in line at a local food bank in Winnipeg. Her youngest son, less than six months old, is bundled up asleep in a stroller and she holds her two-year-old in her arms. Nearby, her oldest son, now four, plays with a toy car.

Marta Guerrero photo Syvelie Mesidor Vaneus est la directrice de la garderie Les Petits Amis de Sainte-Anne.
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Les Petits Amis seront plus nombreux

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Les Petits Amis seront plus nombreux

Ophélie Doireau 4 minute read Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024

La garderie Les Petits Amis de Sainte-Anne connaît un agrandissement qui va lui permettre d’accueillir jusqu’à 48 nouveaux enfants. Une bonne nouvelle malgré la liste d’attente encore très longue.

Depuis le 2 décembre, de nouveaux locaux de la garderie Les Petits Amis de Sainte-Anne accueillent 48 bambins pour le plus grand plaisir de la communauté qui avait besoin de cet agrandissement.

Syvelie Mesidor Vaneus, directrice de la garderie, rappelle que “c’est la seule garderie francophone qui existe à Sainte-Anne et c’est aussi la seule qui accueille des bébés. Nous manquions d’espace alors que la liste d’attente ne faisait que grandir.”

En date de son entrevue avec La Liberté, il y avait 84 bébés inscrits sur la liste d’attente et 102 enfants d’âge préscolaire.

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Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024
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Poll highlights belief in rising corruption

Gabrielle Piché 4 minute read Friday, Nov. 29, 2024

Manitobans’ trust in businesses — and government’s ability to address corruption — is on a downhill slope, a new Angus Reid Institute poll found.

“I feel like things are getting more and more shifty, especially after COVID,” said Will Houston, as he shopped in a Winnipeg supermarket this week.

Prices across the board have skyrocketed over the past few years, he noted.

“I fully acknowledge that there are supply chains and there’s people who need to be paid all the way back to the producer,” Houston said. “But I think that there are people who are taking a higher cut than they used to.”

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Chris Holbrow at his new Forgotten Flavours location on Corydon on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Niverville-based bakery is opening in Winnipeg (where the Pennyloaf Bakery used to be) on Tuesday. For biz story. Winnipeg Free Press 2024

Forgotten Flavours Artisan Bakery fills Pennyloaf void on Corydon

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Forgotten Flavours Artisan Bakery fills Pennyloaf void on Corydon

Gabrielle Piché 5 minute read Monday, Nov. 18, 2024

After nearly a year, the smell of fresh bread will once again fill a Corydon Avenue bakery.

The sign out front no longer reads “Pennyloaf Bakery,” and the staff inside are no longer employed by former clothing mogul and entrepreneur Pepper Foster.

Instead, an emblem for Forgotten Flavours Artisan Bakery faces passersby. Owners Chris and Maria Holbrow busy themselves inside 858 Corydon Ave., preparing for the Winnipeg shop’s first day open Tuesday.

“We’re trying to complement the space and ensure that we can fill a void that was very sad to see go,” Chris Holbrow said. “We have a great product to offer.”

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Monday, Nov. 18, 2024
Gracieuseté La Franco-Manitobaine Christine Ivory est la nouvelle bibliothécaire parlementaire.
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Christine Ivory, un nouveau rôle décisif pour le travail parlementaire

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Christine Ivory, un nouveau rôle décisif pour le travail parlementaire

Jonathan Semah 5 minute read Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024

Depuis le 21 octobre, la Franco-Manitobaine Christine Ivory est devenue la nouvelle bibliothécaire parlementaire. Au service des parlementaires, elle aura notamment un impact sur leurs décisions.

Même si elle a passé plus de 15 ans dans l’équipe de direction de la Bibliothèque du Parlement, c’est tout de même tout un nouveau poste auquel doit s’acclimater Christine Ivory depuis quelques semaines. “Ça se passe bien pour l’instant, j’espère que mes collègues peuvent dire la même chose (rires). Il est vrai que ça aide de connaître l’organisation, de connaître les gens et les dossiers. J’ai besoin de me remettre à jour sur les dernières nouvelles et ce qu’il se passe sur la Colline du Parlement, mais jusque-là ça va. “

Christine Ivory a été sous-ministre adjointe, Secteur des collections, à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC) en 2023 avant de prendre ce nouveau rôle. Alors qu’elle est depuis longtemps dans l’organisme, elle avoue ne s’être “jamais projetée aussi loin. Je suis très reconnaissante et je sais bien qu’il y avait plusieurs autres personnes tout aussi qualifiées. Mais je suis une des seules à avoir travaillé dans différents services, j’ai pensé que ça serait un atout pour ma candidature. Ce n’est pas nécessairement la trajectoire que je visais, mais c’est là où je me retrouve maintenant.”

Représentation et réconciliation

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Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024
PHIL HOSSACK / FREE PRESS FILES A psychologist recruited to care for sick youths filed a lawsuit this week against Shared Health and the University of Manitoba in Court of King’s Bench.

Psychologist sues Shared Health, U of M

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Psychologist sues Shared Health, U of M

Tyler Searle 5 minute read Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

A psychologist recruited to care for sick youths claims she was “pressured to engage in misconduct and other violations of professional standards” and then fired without cause when she complained to the provincial regulator.

The allegations are detailed in a lawsuit filed this week against Shared Health and the University of Manitoba in Court of King’s Bench.

According to the lawsuit, Dr. Michelle Keiski lodged a complaint with the Psychological Association of Manitoba in September 2022 to raise the alarm over issues inside the Max Rady College of Medicine, including the misreporting of studies and data, and staff providing services they are not qualified to deliver.

Keiski, a clinical psychologist, was placed on administrative leave one month after filing the complaint and later terminated without cause, the lawsuit said.

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Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024
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Husband-and-wife food bloggers show how two chefs can navigate the home kitchen and stay happy

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Husband-and-wife food bloggers show how two chefs can navigate the home kitchen and stay happy

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Husband-and-wife food bloggers and podcasters Sonja and Alex Overhiser have a new cookbook that uses a simple step to keep the kitchen a less heated place for two chefs: clear, alternating roles.

“A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together” lays out ingredients and directions for a wide array of dishes, like any other cookbook, but also divides the cooking tasks — one home chef is designated a square, the other a triangle — so neither is overwhelmed or resentful.

“Everything is more fun together, we think. And so we found that about cooking,” says Sonja Overhiser from their home in Indianapolis. “You’ll stay doing it if you’re doing it with someone else.”

So to make their Meatballs with Fire-Roasted Marinara, one chef preheats the oven and then starts to make the marinara sauce, while the other prepares the meatballs. They come together at the end to coat the cooked meatballs with the sauce and add Parmesan cheese and basil.

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025
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New Jenna Rae cookbook focuses on bakers’ favourite home recipes

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New Jenna Rae cookbook focuses on bakers’ favourite home recipes

Eva Wasney 6 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024

There’s a sweet new edition on the way.

Sisters Jenna Hutchinson and Ashley Kosowan are expanding their successful local bakery business with a new cookbook venture. Jenna Rae Cakes at Home: Our Favourite Recipes to Enjoy with Family and Friends hits bookstores Oct. 8 and features more than 100 colourful, family-friendly recipes.

The cookbook is a followup to their first release, Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats, and is a labour of love that brings together the twins’ individual interests.

“Ash was meant to make cookbooks,” says Hutchinson, whose passion for cake design prompted the entrepreneurial siblings to open their first Jenna Rae Cakes shop in 2014.

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Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Adam Woodbury, who formerly rented a chair at Waltz On In, has started a place of his own. ‘My life has changed forever and it’s going to be so exciting,’ he says of the new venture.

Woody’s Barbershop opens doors, fulfils personal dream

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Woody’s Barbershop opens doors, fulfils personal dream

Aaron Epp 5 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2024

For his birthday this year, Adam Woodbury treated himself to a business.

On June 30, the Red Seal hairstylist celebrated turning 32. The next day, he got the keys to 558 Academy Rd.; after almost two months of renovations, he opened Woody’s Barbershop late last month.

“I’m so happy,” Woodbury said Tuesday during some downtime between clients. “My life has changed forever and it’s going to be so exciting.”

A barber’s pole spins in the front window of the 850-square-foot shop, located near Lanark Street.

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Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2024
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES A University of Manitoba nursing student was suspended for the rest of the school year after making a series of social media posts condemning Israel’s actions in its conflict with Palestine.

U of M expands clinical psychology program to address Manitoba shortage

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U of M expands clinical psychology program to address Manitoba shortage

Erik Pindera 4 minute read Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024

The University of Manitoba is expanding its clinical psychology program this fall in an effort to boost the number practising in the province, where the per capita rate is among the lowest in Canada.

The number of seats in the U of M’s masters and doctoral clinical psychology program has been increased to 12 for September, up from eight in previous years, with a plan to expand to 16 seats next fall.

“It’s going to mean better access to psychological care for Manitobans. It doesn’t seem like a big number … but really, we’re doubling our program,” said Kristin Reynolds, associate professor and clinical training director in the U of M’s psychology department.

“Where we now have 50 students in the program, from the first year of the masters to more senior years in doctoral studies, in the years to come, we’ll have more like 100.”

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Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Education minister Nello Altomare shows new school signage (related to the cell phone ban) in his office at the Manitoba Legislative Building on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. For Carol story.
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Manitoba bans cellphones for K-8 students

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Manitoba bans cellphones for K-8 students

Maggie Macintosh 5 minute read Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024

Manitoba has announced a ban on cellphones in elementary schools and strict rules to silence devices and keep them out of sight during Grade 9-12 lessons next month.

Kindergarten to Grade 8 students will be barred from using phones at any point in the school day, including during lunch and recess.

High schoolers will be asked to leave their phones in their locker, with a teacher or at the principal’s office when classes are in session.

Teenagers can access their devices on breaks and when a classroom teacher approves usage for educational purposes.

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Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024
A new report is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news outlets are faring one year after Meta began blocking Canadian news content on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. A smartphone showing Meta's blocking of Canadian news content on their Instagram social media app is shown in a photo illustration, in Toronto, Aug. 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta’s ban: study

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Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta’s ban: study

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

MONTREAL - A new study is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news outlets are struggling to reach audiences one year after Meta began blocking Canadian news content on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

The Media Ecosystem Observatory study published today finds that Canadians’ total engagement with news content on social media has been reduced by 43 per cent, despite efforts to increase social media engagement on other platforms.

The social media giant banned Canadian news content after Ottawa passed the Online News Act in June 2023, which compelled tech companies to enter into agreements with news publishers for the use of their content.

Local news outlets, many of which rely on Facebook, have been especially hit hard — 30 per cent of them are now inactive on social media, the study found.

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025
NIC ADAM / FREE PRESS Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Community Area Director Luba Bereza at the uncertified health care aide, or UHCA, ceremony held at the Masonic Memorial Centre on Monday afternoon.

Four-week program injects staff into city’s home-care ranks

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Four-week program injects staff into city’s home-care ranks

Tyler Searle 4 minute read Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024

Efforts to bolster the roster of professionals who work in the city’s home-care sector are paying off as the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority celebrates the addition of hundreds of new employees.

Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said Monday that 256 health-care aides have been hired by WRHA since February, when the city had a 24 per cent vacancy rate among home care workers.

“Home care is about providing dignified, compassionate services to the folks who need it most,” Asagwara said in a news release.

“The WRHA has put in a huge effort to recruit home-care workers and it’s paying off. It’s all good news: fewer vacancies, more visits and less frustrating cancellations for people.”

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Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES “Here we are again with the same offer for another group of MGEU members,” union president Kyle Ross said in a news release.

Spending on private health-care aides skyrockets

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Spending on private health-care aides skyrockets

Carol Sanders 4 minute read Monday, May. 27, 2024

While the province tries to rein in the soaring costs of private agency nurses, spending on private health-care aides has also skyrocketed.

Freedom of information requests show spending on private agency health-care aides is way up in at least two Manitoba health regions.

The Interlake-Eastern Health region spent $8.7 million on private health-care aides in 2023-24, more than double the $3.4 million spent in 2021-22. The Prairie Mountain Health region spent almost $14.8 million for the first nine months of the 2022-23 fiscal year, nearly triple the $4.8 million spent in 2021-22.

Nearly half of what the Prairie Mountain region spent on agencies went toward travel costs, said Kyle Ross, president of the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union that filed the freedom of information requests.

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Monday, May. 27, 2024
Supplied Larry (Toby Hughes, left, with Melanie Whyte and Lisa Bell) delves into our health care.
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Satirical musical tackles health-care woes in bite-sized chunks

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Satirical musical tackles health-care woes in bite-sized chunks

Thandi Vera 5 minute read Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

They say laughter is the best medicine. Throw a little song-and-dance into the mix and you get Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System — an 11-part web microseries that humorously addresses Canada’s ailing medical system through music and satire.

Sara Kreindler, a professor of community health sciences at the University of Manitoba, spearheads the show, drawing from her extensive research.

“It’s about starting a conversation,” says writer-composer Kreindler, who has a PhD in social psychology. “Whether you’re a health-care provider or just someone curious about the system, I want viewers to come away feeling empowered to hold our elected leaders accountable for addressing the underlying issues.”

Through the character of Larry, played by Winnipeg actor Toby Hughes, viewers embark on a journey navigating the complexities of health-care policy.

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Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024
Some experts say one of the best ways to fight a rising tide of medical misinformation on social media is to drown it out with captivating content backed by science, and Dr. Siobhan Deshauer, an Ontario-based internal medicine and rheumatology specialist, is among a growing cohort of doctors and researchers doing just that. Deshauer's channel on YouTube is shown in a photo illustration made in Toronto, Friday, March 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Some doctors sneak education into their online content to drown out misinformation

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Some doctors sneak education into their online content to drown out misinformation

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

TORONTO - When Dr. Siobhan Deshauer makes online videos, her primary goal is to demystify medicine. Her secondary goal?

"I call it 'smuggling in education,'" said the physician and YouTuber, who boasts nearly a million subscribers on the platform. "You're coming for this mystery and this excitement, but I'm smuggling in some topics that I think are really important and that I'm passionate about."

Some experts say one of the best ways to fight a rising tide of medical misinformation on social media is to drown it out with captivating content backed by science, and Deshauer, an Ontario-based internal medicine and rheumatology specialist, is among a growing cohort of doctors and researchers doing just that.

Take one of her medical mystery videos, for example. In it, Deshauer tells the story of a woman who had lead poisoning. Doctors took ages to figure out what was causing her symptoms, but ultimately realized they were a result of lead in the Ayurvedic supplements she was taking.

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Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

Cellphones have messages about learning

Ken Clark 4 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

Distractions. I recall, decades ago, two high school lads riveted by the random outcomes of a surreptitious, they thought, game of cards, rather than attuned to my teaching of the Canada Food Guide. Message received — think about how I teach the Canada Food Guide.

BROOK JONES / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Grade 12 student Amy Klos puts her cell phone in a cell phone storage pouch fastened to the wall while in her pre-calculus classroom at West Kildonan Collegiate in Winnipeg, Man., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. West Kildonan Collegiate is one example among a number of schools across school divisions in Winnipeg that are implementing strict cell phone guidelines for the second semester.

Classrooms don’t have to be smartphone-free zones, tech-fluent educators tell province

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Classrooms don’t have to be smartphone-free zones, tech-fluent educators tell province

Maggie Macintosh 5 minute read Friday, Feb. 9, 2024

A group of tech-savvy teachers is calling on the province to create guidelines on cellphone use in schools and offering to help get it done.

The Manitoba Association of Education Technology Leaders has taken a firm stance against introducing a sweeping ban of personal wireless devices in kindergarten-to-Grade 12 buildings.

Manitoba Education has no policy in place. School divisions create their own appropriate use policies, while most buildings allow teachers to make rules for their own classrooms.

Tuxedo’s Laidlaw School, Collège Béliveau in Windsor Park and West Kildonan Collegiate are among Winnipeg facilities that have imposed stricter measures this year.

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Friday, Feb. 9, 2024
BROOK JONES / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Grade 12 students Calan Duchart, Amy Klos and Rachel Mickall put their cell phones in a cell phone storage pouch fastened to the wall while in their pre-calculus classroom at West Kildonan Collegiate in Winnipeg, Man., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. West Kildonan Collegiate is one example among a number of schools across school divisions in Winnipeg that are implementing strict cell phone guidelines for the second semester.
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Frustrated educators disconnecting distracted students from devices

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Frustrated educators disconnecting distracted students from devices

Maggie Macintosh 4 minute read Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

More school leaders across Manitoba are asking students to unplug themselves entirely during lesson times and requesting staff to be role models around positive phone-use.

Tuxedo’s Laidlaw School, Collège Béliveau in Windsor Park and West Kildonan Collegiate are among those that have announced stricter guidelines surrounding personal devices in 2024.

“Ultimately, we want our kids to disconnect with their devices and reconnect with their classmates and teacher,” said Adam Hildebrandt, principal of West Kildonan Collegiate. “We think this really is the best thing for their learning.”

Hildebrandt began his career at the high school in 2004. It was around 2010 when it became commonplace for his students to carry personal devices everywhere they went, and his classroom was no exception.

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Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024