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ohn Paskievich at a monument for Ukrainian soldiers killed in the Second World War; the filmmaker made A Canadian War Story over the course of three years. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
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Documentary tells story of Ukrainian immigrants who put lives on the line for adopted homeland

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Documentary tells story of Ukrainian immigrants who put lives on the line for adopted homeland

Alan Small 6 minute read Friday, Nov. 6, 2020

A new war documentary follows a journey of acceptance for Ukrainian-Canadians that came at a heavy cost.

A Canadian War Story, directed by John Paskievich, a Winnipeg filmmaker and photographer, follows the plight of Ukrainian immigrants, who first came to Canada in the 1880s and for decades settled on homesteads across Western Canada, including Manitoba.

Those settlers, and their children, would join the Canadian effort during the Second World War, and the film offers their stories of sacrifice, tragedy and eventually victory.

“The film isn’t just a series of veterans’ testimonials, like how it was to be in Hong Kong or D-Day. It was a coming-of-age story,” says Paskievich, who spent three years making the hour-long movie.

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Friday, Nov. 6, 2020
Canadian demographics impact cultural shifts
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Canadian demographics impact cultural shifts

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Canadian demographics impact cultural shifts

Reviewed by Scott MacKay 3 minute read Saturday, May. 2, 2020

‘Here we go again” was the first thought while unsealing Darrell Bricker’s newest study from the envelope the Winnipeg Free Press had sent to my isolated home. Surely this new work — Next: Where to Live, What to Buy and Who Will Lead Canada’s Future — would suffer the same cruel invalidation that every other pre-pandemic prognostication must experience in these strange times.

But in a sense, Bricker has dodged a COVID-19 bullet, as his focus throughout this volume is on Canadian demographics, complete with its recurrent reminder of how these mighty, slow-moving and mostly irreversible forces affect society today and tomorrow. Take that, pandemic.

Bricker is CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, a global marketing research company. This is Bricker’s third book on population trends and follows Empty Planet and The Big Shift, both of which he co-authored with the Globe and Mail’s former chief political writer John Ibbitson. (Disclosure: This reviewer crossed paths with Bricker in the early ’90s while working at what was then the Angus Reid Group.)

Much of the focus of Bricker’s new solo work is on generational groups, particularly on what he maintains are the miscalculated “Perennials” (basically anyone over 55). It is these comfortable silver-haired boomers who continue to dominate and shape our social values and consumer trends, mostly by the sheer potency of their numbers and their relative prosperity.

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Saturday, May. 2, 2020
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Auto detail shop poised to fight pandemic

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Auto detail shop poised to fight pandemic

Willy Williamson 4 minute read Saturday, Apr. 18, 2020

Since COVID-19 has taught us to continually wash our hands, and many of us have already cleaned every corner of our homes, it's a sure bet a few of us have also turned our efforts to sanitizing our vehicles.

Your usual Saturday morning ritual of washing your car on the driveway with the garden hose and vacuuming the interior and wiping down hard surfaces with car cleaning products is likely all you'll need to keep your vehicle shiny and safe — but if you know or suspect your vehicle has come into contact with coronavirus, or just want to increase your peace of mind, it may be time to call in a professional.

The majority of auto detail shops, which fall under the same essential services category as automobile repair shops, have remained open during the pandemic.

Tom Segal, 45, the owner of Blue Ocean Auto Detailing in Headingley, has seen it all in the more than 25 years he's been cleaning cars, including dirty diapers, rotten food crammed between seats and rodent infestations, but this is his first pandemic.

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Saturday, Apr. 18, 2020
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Youth Coordinator, Trisha North (left) and Sarah Parker (right of the Islamic Social Services Association discuss plans for this Sunday’s “Longing for Belonging” event which focuses on bringing Aboriginal and Muslim together.
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Indigenous, Muslim youth event seeks to build friendships

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Indigenous, Muslim youth event seeks to build friendships

John Longhurst 2 minute read Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020

Indigenous and Muslim youth in Winnipeg are invited to get to know each other at a special gathering Sunday.

Longing for Belonging — sponsored by the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre and the Islamic Social Services Association, with financial support from the Winnipeg Foundation — is a free event for youth ages 14 to 20. It’s happening at the United Way (580 Main St.) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Space is limited to 60 participants, but there is still room for a few more, event co-organizer Sarah Parkar of the Islamic association said.

The goal is to “provide a safe space where Indigenous and Muslim youth can learn about each other and break down stereotypes,” Parkar said.

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Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020
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Author Darryl Leroux has faced online attacks and threats of violence for his examination of claims by non-Indigenous Canadians of Métis status.
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Claims of Indigenous ancestry by non-Indigenous Canadians on the rise

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Claims of Indigenous ancestry by non-Indigenous Canadians on the rise

Reviewed by Sheilla Jones 5 minute read Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020

Writing about identity politics is fraught with political landmines. People tend to be highly sensitive to any challenge to how they identify themselves. It’s personal.

It is therefore intriguing that author Darryl Leroux has walked purposely right into the minefield. It’s political.

In Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity, Leroux describes the obsessive search by some heretofore non-Indigenous Canadians for long-ago Indigenous ancestors who can justify them identifying as Métis. According to Leroux, an associate professor of social justice and community studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, the popularity of genealogical websites and online forums has created communities where race-shifters can organize. The motive, he warns, is not benign.

Leroux makes it clear that he is not talking about people who are seeking to reunite with their kin after being forcibly disconnected from their Indigenous identity through Indian residential schools, the Sixties Scoop or Indian Act policies.

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Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020
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A statue of Nellie McClung and her compatriots in the
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Time to make McClung a pioneer — again

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Time to make McClung a pioneer — again

Carl DeGurse 5 minute read Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020

A famous Winnipegger enthusiastically promoted selective breeding among humans for the refinement of the species. She championed the forced sterilization of people who were considered “unfit,” meaning people judged as “feeble-minded.”

She left Winnipeg and moved to Edmonton, where she was elected as an MLA and was a main promoter of the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, legislation that allowed the sterilization of almost 3,000 people. The victims were disproportionately immigrants and Indigenous people.

By today’s standards, she would be considered a racist.

What do we do about Nellie McClung?

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Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020
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Winnipeg esthetician Tina Cable knows sometimes beauty can be skin-deep

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Winnipeg esthetician Tina Cable knows sometimes beauty can be skin-deep

Erin Lebar 6 minute read Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020

There is nothing quite like the rush of seeing an email from Tina Cable of Myuz Artistry with the subject line “cancellation.”

As one of Winnipeg’s most in-demand skin-care gurus, Cable can be a hard lady to get some face time with. Any available appointments with her for facials, skin consults or facial sculpting are booked almost immediately after she opens her schedule.

And those cancellation emails? You’d better hope you just happened to be checking your inbox when the note arrived, because those spots disappear quickly, too.

Those lucky enough to get in to see Cable know what the hype is about. When it comes to skin care, she has a wealth of information about a volume of products so enormous it can be overwhelming at best and crippling at worst.

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Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020
Manitoba-born scientist Peebles wins Nobel Prize in physics

Manitoba-born scientist Peebles wins Nobel Prize in physics

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Manitoba-born scientist Peebles wins Nobel Prize in physics

Maggie Macintosh 5 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019

The most recent Canadian recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, cosmologist James Peebles, will be honoured with about $600,000 in prize money — and his picture will hang in at least one Winnipeg dorm room.

"He has become an icon of mine since today, this morning," said Harshan Singh, an aspiring physicist enrolled in his first-year at the University of Manitoba. "I will probably put his picture on my wall and then look at him every morning."

The Winnipeg-born, U of M educated Peebles' theories predicted the existence of dark matter and dark energy, as well as a distant radio signal created after the Big Bang.

There was a "muted murmur" among the world's scientists that he should have won the Nobel Prize 41 years ago, when two other scientists were awarded it for stumbling on the faint signals from space Peebles had first theorized with a colleague, according to the U of M newspaper archives.

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Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019
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C’est au tour des missionnaires africains

Marie BERCKVENS de La Liberté (Collaboration spéciale) pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 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... »

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André Marchildon : son dynamisme au service de l’aérodynamique

Amélie DAVID de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 3 minute read Saturday, Jun. 29, 2019

ANDRÉ Marchildon, un Franco-Manitobain de 25 ans, n’a plus beaucoup de temps pour lui-même. En ce vendredi de la mi-juin, ce Winnipégois rentre à peine de sa journée de travail qu’il doit déjà se préparer pour son prochain voyage au Texas. Dans ses valises, l’étudiant en ingénierie aérospatiale à l’Université de Toronto emporte une présentation de ses recherches.

Il vient de remporter la bourse Vanier pour ses recherches dans le domaine de l’aérospatiale. Ce prix prestigieux récompense chaque année une centaine d’élèves à travers le Canada pour leurs recherches dans les domaines des sciences humaines, des sciences naturelles, du génie ou encore de la santé, mais aussi leur implication sociale.

André Marchildon : “Cette bourse est une chance, car ça me permet d’aller à plus de conférences et de pouvoir présenter ma recherche à beaucoup plus de monde, comme c’est le cas avec cette conférence au Texas.” Il porte ainsi les couleurs de sa communauté au-delà des frontières du Manitoba.

Actuellement en maîtrise, l’étudiant cherche à rendre les algorithmes utilisés pour calculer le mouvement de l’air autour des avions plus efficaces.

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In his fall economic statement, delivered Wednesday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered long-awaited support for news media.

Support for news media a solid, welcome step

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Support for news media a solid, welcome step

Bob Cox 3 minute read Monday, Sep. 8, 2025

It is hard for a government to support a good idea when it knows critics will attack the assistance as support for a bad idea.

So the federal Liberal government should be commended for the support it promised to news media this week.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced the federal government will start subsidizing newsroom salaries, as well as digital subscriptions and charitable donations to news media. The cost will be about $120 million a year for five years.

Most of us in the newspaper industry welcome this as a good idea — journalism, a pillar of democracy in communities across Canada, needs help.

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Monday, Sep. 8, 2025
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Chris Hadley works on the prosthetic Beast head at his home studio in Winnipeg.
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Former mechanic gives a face to Rainbow Stage's Beast

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Former mechanic gives a face to Rainbow Stage's Beast

Randall King 5 minute read Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025

It’s not exactly a tale as old as time.

About 20 years ago, Christian Hadley was an auto mechanic dissatisfied with the grind of machining auto parts and deflated at the prospect of repairing another tire.

He needed a change, and not the kind involving 5W30 motor oil.

His career pivot was, quite literally, dramatic. At the age of 25, he went to the University of Winnipeg to study theatre arts. He emerged with skills in both set-building and makeup design. And he brings those skills to fruition in the Rainbow Stage production of Beauty and the Beast.

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Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025
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Pas facile, le baseball au féminin

Manella VILA NOVA de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018

Quand elle était enfant, Sophie Bissonnette n’avait pas d’intérêt évident pour un sport particulier. Ses parents ont donc décidé de l’inscrire au baseball, la passion de son père, Marc Bissonnette. Devenue elle-même amoureuse du sport, elle a joué pendant 15 ans dans des équipes masculines, puis féminines.

À ses débuts, le baseball était surtout l’occasion pour Sophie Bissonnette de passer du temps avec son père. “Il m’a toujours entraînée, et ça me plaisait beaucoup d’avoir ces moments avec lui. Dans ma première équipe, il y avait six filles et un garçon. Au fil des années, il y a eu de moins en moins de joueuses, jusqu’à ce que je sois la seule de mon équipe.”

Une situation qui a quelque peu préoccupé ses parents. “Ma mère était inquiète que je ne sois qu’avec des garçons. Mes parents m’ont proposé de passer au softball, pour être avec d’autres filles. Mais pour moi, c’est un sport complètement différent, et je ne voulais pas arrêter le baseball.”

Sophie n’a senti une différence que quand elle a commencé à jouer à haut niveau. “L’entraîneur me traitait comme les autres joueurs. Mais je n’étais pas la meilleure, et je sentais que je devais travailler plus fort, parce qu’il y avait des préjugés. Quand il y a 12 garçons et une fille sur le terrain, on remarque la fille et on prête plus attention à ce qu’elle fait. Mais j’avais ma place dans l’équipe, et j’étais prête à tout pour y rester.”

PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - Team Torque's #31Aaron Dobson goes high and wins possession against Best Before's #3 Dan Benvenuti in Ultimate Play Wednesday. See Mike Sawatzky's story. - July 31, 2018
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Ultimate test of sportsmanship: no refs, players resolve game disputes

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Ultimate test of sportsmanship: no refs, players resolve game disputes

Mike Sawatzky 6 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018

At the World Masters Ultimate Club Championships being played this week at Little Mountain Sportsplex, the idea of respecting your opponent and promoting the integrity of the sport is not given lip service. Participants talk about respecting the spirit of the game and they mean it.

Following a round-robin men's division game between Winnipeg's Torque and Quantum of Quebec City, both teams convened for separate "spirit circles," as they are called.

These group sessions involved a discussion of the game and improvements that might be made for the upcoming match. Next, players from both teams locked arms for another spirit circle — a place where quality of play, any lingering disagreements over matters such as rough play or interpretations of the rules could be handled.

Spirit circles are part of all World Flying Disc Federation-sanctioned events.

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Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018
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Justice Minister Heather Stefanson’s pledge that the province is working to improve the delivery of justice is encouraging to hear, but the John Howard Society fears the improvements may not come soon enough.

Justice system unfairly punishes and rewards

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Justice system unfairly punishes and rewards

John Hutton 6 minute read Saturday, Apr. 21, 2018

Almost half of the people in Manitoba agree there is a problem with the Canadian justice system when it comes to treatment of Indigenous peoples, according to a recent report in the Winnipeg Free Press (”Manitobans divided on justice system,” April 16, 2018). Like many problems, it’s complex and the way to resolution starts with understanding the many issues.

Here at the John Howard Society, we work with men in conflict with the law, and the vast majority of the people we work with are Indigenous. We see first-hand that the system doesn’t treat everyone fairly for at least three reasons: economic, cultural and prejudicial.

High rates of unemployment and an inability to secure stable housing lead to greater rates of incarceration for those awaiting trial. When a person is charged with a crime, they are often released on their own recognizance. But, if they can’t provide an address for where they will live, they are more likely to be taken into custody. And once someone is in custody, it’s much harder to get out.

By this point, you need a lawyer to represent you at a bail hearing, you still need an address where you will live and there is a legal principle that the accused has to be able to assist in their own defence. I have seen a homeless individual held in custody for almost three weeks for shoplifting less than five dollars’ worth of merchandise, unable to get bail or go to trial because he could not properly instruct his lawyer due to addictions and mental-health issues.

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Saturday, Apr. 21, 2018
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L’avenir de l’Arctique au cœur de Breaking Ice

Morgane Lemée de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Apr. 7, 2018

Breaking Ice, c’est un aperçu de la vie sur un brise-glace de recherche, au beau milieu de l’Arctique. À travers son premier long-métrage documentaire, Christopher Paetkau transmet un message sur des enjeux environnementaux cruciaux pour le Canada et le monde entier. Entre frissons et passion.

Christopher Paetkau, Trevor Gill et Carlyle Paetkau ont fondé la maison de production manitobaine Build Films en 2013. Après plusieurs documentaires et publicités, Breaking Ice est leur plus grand projet. Il vise d’ailleurs à répondre au point central de leur mission: les enjeux de l’Arctique.

“Nous travaillons beaucoup dans l’Arctique, surtout sur des aires marines protégées. Au début, c’était une question de curiosité. Puis, ça nous a vraiment pris aux tripes. Une fois là, on réalise à quel point ces paysages sont complexes et fascinants. Pour nous, l’émotion n’est pas d’avoir une caméra entre les mains. Elle vient d’être capable de transmettre un message.

“Quand vous sentez le sol littéralement fondre sous vos pieds et que vous savez que des gens vivent ici, il y a vraiment de quoi se poser des questions. À mon avis, l’Arctique est d’une actualité brûlante. Il y a tant de choses à entreprendre.”

Screen capture of a Canadian military recruitment ad on Breitbart.com. The military has taken the recruitment ad that appeared on Breitbart, in violation of Ottawa's advertising rules.

‘Mistake’ leads to Canadian Forces ad on far-right website

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‘Mistake’ leads to Canadian Forces ad on far-right website

Dylan Robertson  5 minute read Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2018

OTTAWA — The Canadian Forces have been running a recruitment ad on the American website Breitbart — a digital force in far-right politics that’s among U.S. President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies and one of Canada’s biggest critics.

The military indirectly paid Breitbart, in violation of Ottawa’s advertising rules, but has since pulled its ad off the site.

The ad popped up several times across Breitbart. In one case, it appeared in an article about a Italian mosque, weighing into that country’s Sunday election, which was accompanied by an October 2016 photo showing scores of Muslims praying next to the Colosseum in Rome.

The military took down the ad after the Free Press asked how it was spending taxpayer’s money. But the fact it appeared on a far-right website speaks to the unpredictable nature of online advertising, with Ottawa using a system that provides no idea of exactly where its ads will appear.

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Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2018
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Vanessa Ahing: ‘Je mange du chevreuil, de la bernache et du canard. C’est la viande la plus naturelle qui soit.’
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Chasser, pour avoir la conscience tranquille

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Chasser, pour avoir la conscience tranquille

Daniel Bahuaud de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017

Vanessa Ahing a été végétarienne pendant plus de quatre années. Par refus de l’industrie de la viande qui, à son avis, est cruelle et nuit à l’environnement. Pourtant, un bon steak lui manquait. Pour réconcilier conscience et palais, un choix nouveau s’imposait...

Un soir de septembre, 2013, Vanessa Ahing rentrait de la campagne, où elle avait abattu son premier chevreuil. Souvenir de l’enseignante de 31ans: “J’étais toute seule. J’avais suivi une formation de chasse pour femmes, organisée par la Manitoba Wildlife Foundation. Mon chevreuil, coupé en quarts, était dans un sac de hockey dans le coffre de ma Honda Civic. C’était mon premier animal. Je voulais vivre l’expérience complète de la chasse. Donc pas question pour moi d’aller chez un boucher. D’ailleurs, j’étais étudiante. Je n’avais pas le fric pour me payer un tel service.

“Je me demandais comment j’allais faire pour préparer cette viande. Je n’ai pas été élevée dans une famille de chasseurs, ou même de jardiniers. Mes parents n’étaient pas prêts à avoir un chevreuil chez eux. Et moi, je vivais dans un petit appartement pour célibataires au centre-ville de Winnipeg.

“Il était tard. Trop tard pour dépecer l’animal tout de suite. Alors, j’ai ouvert les fenêtres de mon appartement. Je me suis endormie dans mon sac de couchage. Le lendemain, j’ai tapé ‘Comment couper de la viande de chevreuil’ sur YouTube. Et je me suis mise à l’œuvre.”

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Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017
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‘Toute la francophonie nord-américaine est liée’: Le bédéiste québécois Jocelyn Jalette a rendu hommage à Louis Riel en visitant, le 8 novembre dernier, la tombe du Père du Manitoba. Riel a été pendu le 16 novembre 1885.
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Riel, le lien entre les francos d’Amérique

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Riel, le lien entre les francos d’Amérique

Daniel Bahuaud de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press  4 minute read Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017

Pour Jocelyn Jalette, bédéiste de Joliette, au Québec, pas besoin d’être métis, ou manitobain, ou encore francophone en milieu minoritaire pour apprécier le combat, le triomphe et la tragédie de Louis Riel. Et voici pourquoi.

Dans La République assassinée des Métis, la bande dessinée de Jocelyn Jalette qui vient tout juste d’être publiée aux Éditions du Phoenix (www.editionsduphoenix.com), des personnages fictifs côtoient Louis Riel et Gabriel Dumont, mais aussi les politiciens Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Louis-Joseph Papineau et Honoré Mercier.

Une palette de personnages pour mieux placer la résistance des Métis dans un contexte francophone plus large, comme le souligne l’auteur de 47 ans :

“Les liens sont étroits entre la résistance des Métis, Louis Riel et les francophones du Québec. Surtout quand on se rappelle que la lutte pour assurer un statut d’égalité entre le français, l’anglais, et les cultures francophone et anglophone, c’est l’affaire de tous les francophones.”

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Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017
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Canadian Armed Forces members and a RCMP officer stand at the Sacrifice Cross during a Remembrance Day ceremony Friday, November 11, 2016 in Quebec City.
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Canadian veterans' stories detail selfless sacrifice, struggle

Reviewed by Ian Stewart 4 minute read Friday, Nov. 10, 2017

The lives of the men and women who served and are serving in the Canadian Armed Forces are a mystery to many Canadians.

Remembrance Day may be a time when family memories of what a grandparent or great-grandparent did in the First World War or Second World War are vaguely recalled. Winnipeggers over 30 likely remember the flood of 1997, when the army was deployed to protect the city from the raging Red River, but what else have our Armed Forces done? Jody Mitic offers readers an answer.

In his 2015 autobiography Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper, Mitic told the story of his life in the Canadian Armed Forces: the physical and mental challenges he had to overcome, the years of training he endured, his deployment to Bosnia, becoming a sniper-team leader in Afghanistan, losing his legs to a landmine and overcoming this life-changing injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Everyday Heroes is Mitic’s collection of 21 first-person accounts of life in the Canadian Armed Forces. He turns from his story to one “encouraging Canadians to get to know the men and women who wear the Canadian flag on their shoulders… to see beyond the uniform to the person.”

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