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Winnipeg Muslims focus on giving as Ramadan begins

John Longhurst 3 minute read Friday, Feb. 28, 2025

Winnipeg Muslims may have begun fasting for Ramadan but their minds are on others who may be hungry.

Three city groups are among 45 Islamic organizations across Canada participating in the #FastFeed Ramadan Food Bank Campaign to Combat Hunger.

The campaign, launched by the Canadian Council of Imams, is being supported by the Islamic Social Services Association, the Canadian Muslim Women’s Institute and the Manitoba Islamic Association.

The campaign, which also uses the name Give 30, will take place during Ramadan from Friday to March 29.

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                                Rehman Abdulrehman believes we are seeing obvious examples of racism all over the world these days.
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Anti-racism activist hopes to make our communities mutually respectful

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Anti-racism activist hopes to make our communities mutually respectful

AV Kitching 7 minute read Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman is a clinical and consulting psychologist at Clinic Psychology Manitoba. He has a consulting and coaching firm called Lead with Diversity, he is the assistant professor with the department of clinical health psychology at the University of Manitoba and he has just written his first book, Developing Anti-Racist Cultural Competence, which aims to help people develop practical skills, insight and better empathy when working with diverse groups.

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Monday, Feb. 24, 2025
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                                Jonata Dalayoan est le dessinateur du logo du 56e Festival du Voyageur.
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Le logo d’un francophile de cœur

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Le logo d’un francophile de cœur

Camille Harper 4 minute read Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025

Originaire du quartier Tyndall Park à Winnipeg, c’est pourtant à Saint-Boniface que l’anglophone Jonato Dalayoan a choisi de s’installer il y a 22 ans. “C’était mon premier domicile, et depuis je suis toujours resté ici avec ma femme et mes enfants.”

Lui-même d’origine philippine, et sa femme germano-philippine, ils ont pleinement embrassé Saint-Boniface, sa culture francophone, et bien sûr son Festival du Voyageur. “Mes enfants vont à l’école d’immersion française et parlent couramment le français, affirme-t-il avec fierté. Je les appelle mes francopinos! En fait, ils parlent très bien le français mais pas du tout le filipino.”

Le Festival du Voyageur, la famille Dalayoan y a donc passé de nombreuses journées à travers les années. Jonato Dalayoan raconte: “Je vis proche du parc Provencher et je me souviens que dans mes premières années à Saint-Boniface, il y avait des sculptures de neige du Festival dans le parc Provencher. C’était toujours quelque chose que j’avais très hâte d’aller voir.

“Aujourd’hui, on va souvent au parc du Voyageur avec les enfants. Le Festival a beaucoup changé dans les cinq à dix dernières années, il y a beaucoup de nouvelles activités, de nouveaux spectacles, de nouvelles musiques, c’était vraiment cool pour toute la famille!”

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Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025
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Recruitment and retention: a health-care challenge

Niall Harney 4 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

Manitoba’s government was elected in October 2023 with a strong mandate to “fix health care.” Central to this commitment is resetting the relationship with Manitoba’s health-care workers.

Marc Gallant / Winnipeg Free Press. Local- FILE STOCK PHOTO. Canadian flag against blue cloudy sky. 070323.
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National symbols can be problematic, and the Canadian flag has been through a lot in its 60 years

Jen Zoratti 5 minute read Preview
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National symbols can be problematic, and the Canadian flag has been through a lot in its 60 years

Jen Zoratti 5 minute read Friday, Feb. 14, 2025

So, folks, where are we at on the Canadian flag? Is it cool to unfurl the ol’ girl again or what?

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Friday, Feb. 14, 2025
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                                Newspapers running off a press.

Study shows importance of local news

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Study shows importance of local news

Aaron Epp 5 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

A new study shows the importance of local news to community knowledge, connections and democracy in small and mid-sized Canadian communities.

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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025
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                                Wilgis Agossa lors du vernissage de la 4e édition de Noir et Fier au Théâtre Cercle Molière.
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Noir et fier met les mots sur les maux

Lucille Dourlens 5 minute read Preview
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Noir et fier met les mots sur les maux

Lucille Dourlens 5 minute read Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025

Noir et Fier revient jusqu’au 28 février pour un mois de festivités et d’animations placées sous le signe de l’échange et de la guérison. Wilgis Agossa, directeur artistique, nous en dit plus sur les nouveautés de la quatrième édition.

“Mots sur Maux,” voilà le thème du festival Noir et Fier cette année. La programmation a été pensée de façon à créer des temps d’échanges autour de diverses activités où des histoires touchantes pourront être racontées, celles des personnes noires.

La première nouveauté se tiendra au Théâtre Cercle Molière (TCM) lors des “Dimanches en famille”. Ce rendez-vous hebdomadaire, déjà en place au TCM, s’adapte pour proposer des animations telles que de la danse, du break, des jeux ou encore des contes pour “nous permettre de nous enrichir,” indique Wilgis Agossa.

En parallèle, un autre moment de rencontres se tiendra chaque milieu de semaine avec “Les mercredis je conte,” de 17 h 30 à 19 h. Le public pourra y découvrir des histoires de plusieurs peuples. “Dans les cultures noires, la tradition orale a une grande richesse, explique Wilgis Agossa. Quand on veut faire passer un message et dire les choses, on utilise le conte. Ce rendez-vous nous permettra de voyager vers un autre continent, que ce soit avec les contes d’Afrique centrale, d’Afrique de l’Ouest ou même des Caraïbes.”

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Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025
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
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                                Jayden Del Campo
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Le water-polo séduit les jeunes francophones manitobains

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Le water-polo séduit les jeunes francophones manitobains

Lucille Dourlens 3 minute read Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025

À l’occasion de la Ligue d’hiver, le club Vortex a reçu les équipes de water-polo de la Saskatchewan les 25 et 26 janvier derniers, qui n’étaient pas venues en territoire manitobain depuis deux ans.

La Liberté est allée à la rencontre de l’équipe des moins de 14 ans dont presque la moitié des joueurs est en école d’immersion.

Jayden Del Campo, l’un des coachs du club, a notamment accepté de réaliser avec nous une entrevue en français. Il nous a confié ce qu’il appréciait dans cette activité aquatique.

“C’est l’un des meilleurs sports d’équipe. On se voit très souvent pour les entraînements donc nous sommes comme des frères. C’est ma deuxième famille. Le water-polo c’est aussi beaucoup de fun!”

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Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025
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                                Xavier Mutshipayi dans son atelier.
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Quand les émotions se dégagent des formes et des couleurs

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Quand les émotions se dégagent des formes et des couleurs

Lucille Dourlens 4 minute read Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025

L’artiste peintre Xavier Mutshipayi présente pour la première fois ses créations dans l’exposition Nouveaux Horizons à la galerie d’art du Centre culturel franco-manitobain (CCFM).

Il s’agit de la troisième présentation solo du peintre originaire du Congo. L’occasion pour lui de présenter une nouvelle facette de son travail. En effet, si Xavier Mutshipayi est plutôt connu pour son style réaliste, ses créations évoluent ici vers l’art abstrait et l’impressionnisme.

La galerie du CCFM accueille environ une dizaine de tableaux dont la majorité ont été conçus pour l’évènement. Parmi eux, quatre toiles arborent un style abstrait tandis que quatre autres reprennent les codes du mouvement impressionniste. Cette évolution artistique s’est développée au fil des années pour Xavier Mutshipayi.

“Comme pour l’homme, l’artiste grandit et change avec le temps. L’endroit où j’habite et mon parcours de vie m’inspirent dans mes créations. C’est pourquoi il y a beaucoup de portraits dans mes œuvres. À force de travailler, j’ai développé un style, une patte.”

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Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025
A CIBC report says sweeping tariffs imposed by the U.S. could cost the Canadian economy as much as 3.25 per cent, even factoring in possible exemptions to the oil and gas sector. President Donald Trump attends the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Evan Vucci

Sweeping tariffs could be 3% hit to Canadian economy, even with carve-outs: report

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Sweeping tariffs could be 3% hit to Canadian economy, even with carve-outs: report

Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025

TORONTO - A CIBC report says sweeping tariffs imposed by the U.S. could cost the Canadian economy as much as 3.25 per cent, even factoring in possible exemptions for the oil and gas sector.

An analysis published Tuesday examined four potential scenarios in which U.S. President Donald Trump slaps new taxes on goods imported from Canada, ranging from 10 to 20 per cent and with possible carve-outs for key industries.

Speaking with reporters on Monday evening, Trump said he's thinking about hitting Canada and Mexico with 25 per cent tariffs on Feb. 1.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada would respond and that "everything is on the table."

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Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025
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                                Alberta Premier Danielle Smith may be making the wrong arguments over export tariffs on oil.

A risky solution to a complex issue

Deveryn Ross 4 minute read Preview

A risky solution to a complex issue

Deveryn Ross 4 minute read Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been widely criticized outside of her province, and widely praised within it, for her stance on how Canada should respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats against Canada.

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Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025
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                                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
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                                Louis-José Houde va présenter son spectacle Tu n’es pas spécial dans la salle Pauline-Boutal du CCFM.
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Louis-José Houde fait un retour attendu à Winnipeg

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Louis-José Houde fait un retour attendu à Winnipeg

Jonathan Semah 4 minute read Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025

Il en avait fait la promesse en 2019. Six ans plus tard, et une pandémie passés par là, l’humoriste sera de nouveau sur la scène de la salle Pauline-Boutal le 26 janvier au CCFM.

Normalement, ce retour dans la capitale manitobaine aurait dû se faire plus tôt que ça.

“En 2019, le spectacle avait été tellement agréable que vers la fin, encore sur la scène, j’avais déclaré que je reviendrais. Mon producteur l’apprenait au même moment. [rires] Donc, on avait pris rendez-vous pour avril ou mai 2020, et ce n’était pas arrivé …”

L’humoriste québécois se souvient notamment dans l’ambiance et de l’atmosphère qui régnait dans la salle Pauline-Boutal. “J’avais beaucoup aimé cette salle-là de par sa configuration. On n’a pas de salle comme ça à Montréal, il n’y a pas vraiment de scène dans mon souvenir. On est comme sur un plancher, avec le public en demi-lune. Pour l’humour, c’est extrêmement efficace, on entendait vraiment bien les rires. Je me sentais très proche des gens.”

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Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025
FILE - Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally to oppose his impeachment near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

YouTube election fraud conspiracy theories fuel impeached South Korean president and his supporters

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YouTube election fraud conspiracy theories fuel impeached South Korean president and his supporters

Kim Tong-hyung, The Associated Press 7 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands have braved the frigid January weather in Seoul protests, waving South Korean and American flags and shouting vows to protect their embattled conservative hero, the impeached South Korean president facing imprisonment over potential rebellion charges.

The swelling crowds in South Korea’s capital are inspired by President Yoon Suk Yeol's defiance, but also by the growing power of right-wing YouTubers who portray Yoon as a victim of a leftist, North Korea-sympathizing opposition that has rigged elections to gain a legislative majority and is now plotting to remove a patriotic leader.

“Out with fraudulent elections and a fake National Assembly!” read one sign, brandished by an angry man in a fur hat during a recent protest near Yoon’s presidential residence, the site of a massive law enforcement operation Wednesday that made Yoon the country’s first sitting president to be detained in a criminal investigation.

Many at the pro-Yoon rallies, which are separated by police from anti-Yoon counter-protests, are significantly influenced by fictional narratives about election fraud that dominate conservative YouTube channels — claims that Yoon has repeatedly referenced in his attacks on election officials.

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Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025
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                                Syed Vakeel, one of two volunteer imams at Morden’s new mosque, speaks to worshippers.
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‘A divine feeling’: Mosque becomes a reality for Morden’s Muslim families

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‘A divine feeling’: Mosque becomes a reality for Morden’s Muslim families

John Longhurst 3 minute read Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025

There’s a new place of worship in Morden — the city’s first mosque.

Operated by the Pembina Valley Islamic Society, the mosque is located in an 1,800-square-foot former commercial space in a downtown strip mall on North Railway Street.

Approval for the mosque, called a masjid in Arabic, was granted by Morden city council on Dec. 23.

The mosque, which will serve about 150 Muslim families in the area, joins 17 other places of worship, all of them Christian, in the city of nearly 10,000 people.

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Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Chief Operating Officer, (Acting) Managing Director, University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation, Jeremy Read, introduces Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, during a press event to celebrate the start of construction at 308 Colony Street, a 21-storey housing project. Described as a socially-inclusive mixed-income, mixed-use, 21-storey high-rise with 214 apartment units and two commercial spaces on the ground floor. See Katie May story. 240222 - Thursday, February 22, 2024.

Urban housing groups fear federal funding will vanish after sooner-than-expected election

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Urban housing groups fear federal funding will vanish after sooner-than-expected election

Kevin Rollason 4 minute read Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025

Manitoba housing organizations are scrambling to lock in funding for projects because of fear the cash will dry up if there is a change in government in Ottawa.

Since Parliament has been prorogued until late March, there is a little breathing space, but far less than there would have been until the fixed election date in October.

The election is likely to take place well before the fall because of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation on Jan. 6.

Whether it is the Housing Accelerator Fund capital grant program announced in 2023 — expected to bring $122.4 million to Winnipeg to fast-track the development of 3,166 housing units — or the Reaching Home project to combat homelessness, programs created by the Liberals could be on the chopping block.

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Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025
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                                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
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Let’s live peacefully and meaningfully together in this land

John Longhurst 5 minute read Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025

Among the many benefits of being a faith reporter and columnist at the Free Press is a chance to learn more, and write about, the experience of Indigenous people in this country, including their interactions with Christianity.

This has helped make up for my lack of education I received in school about this important history while growing up in the 1960s and 70s.

Like many others of my boomer generation, I learned Canadian history from a colonial point of view. In that telling, Canada was an empty and unsettled land until the Europeans arrived, bringing civilization, progress — and religion — to what they considered to be a backward people.

So while I learned about famous European explorers and the settling of this land, I heard nothing about Kondiaronk, a Wendat chief who lived from 1649-1701. Among other things, Kondiaronk challenged the assertion that Europe and its religion was superior to the beliefs and way of life of Indigenous people.

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                                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 4 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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