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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Callie shows how roomy her kennel is outside her home in Selkirk Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Matt and Kaelyn Proutt have started M+K Wood Co., a business that started as a cabinet supplier but now turns out custom, wooden kennels for dogs. Reporter: ?
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Custom-crafted dog kennels more plush than penal

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Custom-crafted dog kennels more plush than penal

David Sanderson  9 minute read Friday, Sep. 10, 2021

SELKIRK — One of late, standup comedian George Carlin’s best-loved shticks revolved around how, as a kid, his parents would command him to his bedroom for hours on end whenever he misbehaved. That never seemed like much of a punishment, he’d explain in his trademark, wry tone, given that’s where all his “stuff” was, the punch line being if his mom and dad really wanted to teach him a lesson, they would have banished him to their room, instead.

Carlin’s bit came to mind recently during an interview with Matt and Kaelyn Proutt, owners of M+K Wood Co., a Selkirk-based enterprise that turns out hand-crafted, wooden dog kennels that, at first glance, could easily be mistaken for a fashionable end table or armoire.

Three years ago, the married couple brought home Callie, a Labrador-English bulldog mix. They purchased a conventional, wire crate during her puppy phase, which they placed her inside as a form of discipline if she nabbed something from a dinner plate or destroyed a throw pillow. Except after they replaced her metal lair with one Matt fashioned out of spruce wood, which Kaelyn subsequently stained to match their living room decor, they discovered it no longer served its intended, penal purpose.

“Originally, the kennel was for when she was naughty. But because she seemed to enjoy the new one so much, we had to start leaving the door open all the time, so she could go inside whenever she felt like it,” Kaelyn says with a chuckle, seated next to Matt on a couch steps away from their pooch’s hideaway.

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Friday, Sep. 10, 2021
ALEX LUPUL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Deb Kelley, shelter co-ordinator for the Manitoba Ferret Association No Kill Shelter, with Bear.
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Ferret shelter fears city’s proposed pet limit

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Ferret shelter fears city’s proposed pet limit

Joyanne Pursaga 4 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

An animal shelter fears its network of foster homes could be at risk, should a proposed change to Winnipeg’s responsible pet ownership bylaw be approved.

Deb Kelley, a shelter co-ordinator with the Manitoba Ferret Association No Kill Shelter, said a newly proposed limit that each Winnipeg household be allowed a maximum of five ferrets would not support the shelter’s model of care. The shelter relies on multiple foster homes, ensuring all of them already own ferrets and are qualified to properly care for them.

As a result, many of those homes already contain up to six ferrets, before they take others in temporarily, she said.

“We’re here for every ferret in need, whether it’s old, young, sick, healthy. If the bylaw goes through where each household can have only five ferrets, that would devastate our foster home space,” said Kelley.

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Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021
ALEX LUPUL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Janelle Wride, Delivery Coordinator for Fireweed Food Co-op, and Paul Dyck, a volunteer, pose for a photo with their vegetable stand as part of Fireweed's Veggie Van program on August 19, 2021. The program offers affordable local produce to those in lower income neighbourhoods.
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Veggie Van to bring fresh produce to inner city residents

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Veggie Van to bring fresh produce to inner city residents

Eva Wasney 4 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

A farmer’s market on wheels is hoping to put a dent into the problem of food deserts in Winnipeg’s inner city

Fireweed Food Co-op has launched its new Veggie Van pilot program, which brings subsidized local produce into Winnipeg’s inner city neighbourhoods through a mobile market on Thursday afternoons. The West Central Women’s Resource Centre was the first stop on the Veggie Van’s inaugural tour last week.

“We have zucchini, beets, yellow onion, carrots, sweet corn,” says Fireweed’s food hub delivery co-ordinator Janelle Wride, while standing behind a table piled high with colourful vegetables. “Those are most of the basic items that we have available from the producers right now and each week it’ll change a little bit.”

The goal of the program, she says, is to combat food insecurity by offering cheap, nutritious produce for sale in underserved communities.

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Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021
submitted Penner recently placed third in an ALD event in Calgary, Alberta on August 13 in the Women's category with a best drive of 253 yards.
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Winnipeg teen representing Canada at World Amateur Long Drive Championship

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Winnipeg teen representing Canada at World Amateur Long Drive Championship

Joseph Bernacki 5 minute read Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021

A Winnipeg teen known for her prowess on the tee box will be launching bombs on behalf of Canada next month in Chicago.

Hannah Penner, 18, will don the red and white as part of a contingent of 20 golfers set to represent the nation at the 2021 World Amateur Long Drive Championship, set for Sept. 11-19.

She's headed to the Windy City but doesn't require a strong breeze at her back to routinely crush the ball well over 250 yards or, occasionally, eclipse the 300-yard mark.

Penner, one of four women in the group, said she's thrilled about the chance to compete against others with the same unique skillset.

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Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021
Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press. Felled trees line the median on Roblin Blvd from Scotswood Drive almost all the way to perimeter highway. The destruction is the aftermath of a house that was being moved from the Roblin Grove development in Charleswood on Saturday morning. August 7, 2021.
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Charleswood residents fume over destroyed trees

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Charleswood residents fume over destroyed trees

Joyanne Pursaga 5 minute read Monday, Aug. 9, 2021

Frustrated residents are calling on the city and province to get to the root of the problem that led to the destruction of nearly two dozen mature trees in Charleswood on the weekend.

Early Saturday morning, a building moving company began to move a display home near the corner of Roblin Boulevard and Scotswood Drive. The home was too wide to clear mature trees along Roblin’s median.

When Winnipeg Police Service officers arrived to provide a previously scheduled escort for the movers at about 7 a.m. they discovered 17 trees had been cut down, allegedly by the driver of the vehicle hauling the house, police spokesman Const. Rob Carver said.

“Immediately, upon determining that the trees had been cut and linking it to this move, the move was halted and, ultimately, the driver (was) arrested,” said Carver.

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Monday, Aug. 9, 2021
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C’est au tour des missionnaires africains

Marie BERCKVENS de La Liberté (Collaboration spéciale) pour le Winnipeg Free Press 5 minute read Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, la contribution de prêtres missionnaires venus d’Afrique est toujours plus évidente dans le diocèse de Saint-Boniface. Joseph Nnadi, professeur retraité de l’Université de Winnipeg, a réfléchi à ce phénomène (1).

Il aime dire de l’abbé d’origine haïtienne Jean-Baptiste Georges, qui séjournait à Saint-Boniface durant les vacances d’été de 1945 à 1949, qu’il s’agit du « premier prototype de missionnaire africain » à Saint-Boniface: « L’archevêque Georges Cabana le faisait venir ici pendant l’été pour l’aider à convaincre les Noirs qui habitaient Saint-Boniface et peut-être aussi Winnipeg de venir à l’église. Les Noirs comme les Autochtones se sentaient négligés, méprisés, déçus... Cet archevêque a devancé les autres. »

Il aura fallu attendre le début des années 1990 pour voir d’autres prêtres africains arriver à Winnipeg, sous l’impulsion de l’archevêque Antoine Hacault. « Aujourd’hui, sous la gouverne de l’archevêque de Saint- Boniface Mgr Albert LeGatt, il y a 61 prêtres en ministère actif, dont 16 sont africains. »

Ce phénomène est appelé « l’évangélisation en sens inversé ». Dans les années 1960, l’évangélisation allait de paire avec la colonisation. « À l’origine du mouvement, l’évangélisation se faisait dans un sens, un peu partout vers l’Afrique et le tiers-monde. Maintenant, les missionnaires quittent l’Afrique pour aller dans les pays où l’Église catholique existe de longue date. L’Afrique a des missionnaires parce qu’elle avait reçu des missionnaires. On voit ce phénomène en France, en Italie, en Angleterre, au Canada... »

MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Chi Liao, a U of M assistant professor, whose expertise is in behavioural finance, says biases can lead to bad decisions.
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Investors behaving badly

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Investors behaving badly

By Joel Schlesinger 6 minute read Saturday, Apr. 30, 2016

Finance professor Chi Liao’s background in mathematics often comes in handy in her line of work.

After all, both corporate and investment finance are built upon numbers. Yet financial reporting — balance sheets and cash-flow analysis — is not her area of interest.

In fact, her expertise has less to do with the numerical side of money and more to do with how our emotions affect how we manage our hard-earned cash.

“I’ve always been fascinated by people-watching and why it is we do what we do,” says Liao, who studied mathematics and finance before completing a PhD in behavioural finance from the University of Toronto in 2014.

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Saturday, Apr. 30, 2016
VINCENT RÉGIS DE LA LIBERTÉ Le professeur de l’École de service social de l’Université de Saint-Boniface, David Alper.
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Un rapport alarmant

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Un rapport alarmant

Vincent RéGIS de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

LA situation de l’accessibilité au logement à Winnipeg est alarmante, surtout pour les nouveaux arrivants, révèle le premier rapport réalisé à ce sujet par l’École de service social de l’Université de Saint-Boniface (USB).

“Il y a une crise du logement évidente qui sévit partout au Canada, et Winnipeg est l’une des grandes villes avec le plus bas taux d’inoccupation de logements au pays,” explique le professeur à l’USB David Alper, un des co-auteurs du rapport.

“Plusieurs études ont été effectuées dans les dernières années pour démontrer comment cela touchait différentes tranches de la société, alors on a voulu étudier la problématique dans la communauté francophone, surtout chez les nouveaux arrivants.”

Pour ce faire, les auteurs ont interrogé une douzaine de familles francophones venues d’Afrique.

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Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012
WILLIAM SINEUX / LA LIBERTÉ Réal Bérard fait des cartes uniques et très précises des rivières manitobaines, agrémentées de croquis et descriptifs de tout ce qui fait l’identité des rivières qu’il explore.
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Réal explorateur

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Réal explorateur

By William Sineux / De La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 5 minute read Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012

RÉAL Bérard est l’un des rares explorateurs des temps modernes à partir à l’assaut des rivières capricieuses armé de son canoë, de papier et d’un crayon.

Réal Bérard est en effet le premier à avoir entrepris de cartographier pour le gouvernement puis par passion l’ensemble des rivières manitobaines.

Depuis 1961 le cartographe parcourt ainsi des kilomètres de rivières et des jours durant, pour les dessiner et les décrire dans les moindres détails afin de créer des cartes uniques en leur genre.

“Après avoir fait les Beaux-arts de Montréal j’ai travaillé pour le ministère des ressources naturelles et je patrouillais sur les rivières jusqu’au jour où j’ai voulu intégrer mon art à mon travail de tous les jours en dessinant et peignant ce que je voyais.”

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Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012