In 1999/2000 I lived in Minneapolis off Portland a few blocks from where the shooting happened. I loved living there. I’ve never met him but I have a lot of respect for Jacob Frey the current mayor. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

NYTimes: "local and federal officials were immediately divided on how the shooting unfolded.” @doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying." www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

having said myself that people don't need to watch the video, here's my colleague Susan Matthews making a strong case that, yes you do (she also describes it well enough that I feel okay ignoring her instruction)

Murder someone in the morning, attack school staff at afternoon dismissal time. What horrors do we wake up to tomorrow? Sending love to colleagues at Roosevelt High School. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is SO cute and creative!

They're back! Small Achievable Goals returns for Season 2 tonight (or streaming right now). www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Is 2026 the year of the analogue? Can we ever go back to being visitors of the internet, not residents? Are we finally going to realize that despite scrolling all these feeds, we are never fed? My column: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

WFP Investigation🧵: How does a teacher groom a student from Grade 3, admit to being "obsessed" with her, and still get to quietly resign without charges? My investigation into the systemic failure that protected David Wray and shattered a Winnipeg family: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

I wrote about a lot of visual art this year! Here are five exhibitions I loved. One is still on view! www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

No one more deserving, frankly #DootDoot

Also, to echo this, I highly recommend looking at the actual paper. The website will push through wire; the physical paper has local arts stories every day. FREQUENTLY we're the only outlet covering stuff.

Free Press arts and life reporter here 👋 Just checked our back-end stats and we published more than 1,000 local arts stories this year. Our landing page is full of current local arts stories. This is inaccurate and, frankly, hurtful. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Write about Ron Reiner and watching my dad laugh ❤️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

All Winnipeg schools are closed Thursday as a blizzard hammers southern Manitoba.

We went hard on Tchaikovsky for this year’s Nutcracker preview — the score that is synonymous with the season, popping up everywhere from Fantasia to The Simpsons to Tetris.

Hi #Winnipeg : I'm working on a story about people opting out of travel south of the border to visit family and friends for the holidays owing to U.S. - Canada relations. Is this you? If so, I'd love to chat. Get at me at [email protected] or hit the DMs. @winnipegfreepress.com #wfp

We will be poorer for it if we outsource our compassion and creativity to a machine that can only ever approximate emotions because it’s never felt any. ChatGPT can only make you sound more empathetic. It can’t make you be more empathetic. Today’s column www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

We will be poorer for it if we outsource our compassion and creativity to a machine that can only ever approximate emotions because it’s never felt any. ChatGPT can only make you sound more empathetic. It can’t make you be more empathetic. Today’s column www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Please keep the roof! It looks so cool. 🙏🏻 #PortagePlace #Winnipeg

just for the record, I would much prefer to live in a time where all it takes to support hundreds of good local jobs is to wake up every day and buy a newspaper for a nickel from a legally employed minor with a cool hat

Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.) There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.

High-end beauty and skin care, bougie candles, luxury scents, whisky, caviar — if you can name it, there’s probably an advent calendar featuring it. Many of these Christmas countdowns range in price from eye-opening to eye-watering. What‘s going on with advent calendars?

High-end beauty and skin care, bougie candles, luxury scents, whisky, caviar — if you can name it, there’s probably an advent calendar featuring it. Many of these Christmas countdowns range in price from eye-opening to eye-watering. What‘s going on with advent calendars?

Jon Hamm has spent the last month acting like a real Winnipegger.

Often in creative work, the titles of things come later, once one has seen the finished project and the shape it has taken.

On Friday November 28 at 7pm, join Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge for the launch of Portage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life (@greatplainspress.bsky.social). Hosted by @jenzoratti.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/janke-...

Before every performance of Croquis, Vancouver choreographer Ralph Escamillan spends hours making sculptural works of art out of plain packing paper.

🏒🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ “Lucas Morneau crocheted and rug-hooked brightly coloured, vintage-inspired jerseys — complete with logos — for all 14 of the QNHL’s teams, which are all named for pejoratives used against #LGBTQ communities in an act of reclamation.” #hockey ✍️ @jenzoratti.bsky.social, @winnipegfreepress.com

I have been terrible at sharing my work here but I liked this one. You’ll never figure out what you can do if you never try. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

A must-read, from @doubleemmartin.bsky.social: Ms. Lily's Grade 5 students came to her with a *double-barreled* q last fall: why didn’t Earl Grey School have a paper, they wondered — and if they started one, would she serve as editor-in-chief? #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

I am pro teenage trick or treating! Also the story of my bad and weird last Halloween. 🎃 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

The spooky season is in full swing, with every streaming service worth its salt suggesting films that go bump in the night. A scary movie is a great date night (see C8 for the year’s best so far), but we suggest burning the midnight oil with one of these gripping, ghoulish reads.

From 2019: Need some local costume inspo? I got you! (Pleased that the Portage & Main suggestion is irrelevant now). www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

I am pro teenage trick or treating! Also the story of my bad and weird last Halloween. 🎃 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Nick is *already* missed dearly by his former colleagues. A lifelong public ed advocate, he always picked up the phone to chat abt the notorious school funding formula. I’ll keep trying my best to fit into his clown-sized #mbed reporter shoes 🍎🗞️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

One of the best live vocalists in the biz. Loved seeing Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland up there, too. And surprise guest Paula Cole!!! she was playing her own show last night in town, too. A mini Lilith!

Gutted to hear of Nick’s passing while in Edinburgh on holiday. His contributions to the books section after his retirement from the Free Press were immeasurable, and there was no one else who wrote like him. I’ll miss him dearly for that and so many other reasons.

Cute news alert! Annie MacDonald's neighbourhood coffee stand has raised more than $2,000 for CancerCare over the last two months. It's also become the site of meaningful community connections. In today's @winnipegfreepress.com ☕ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

This is a fun project and a really good idea from our poet laureate. Supported by the Winnipeg Arts Council. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

This is such a beautiful project —if you were at JKS’s shows at the end of September, you got a sneaky peek!

New Zealand costume designer Kate Hawley has designed many costumes for the big screen — including for the forthcoming Frankenstein — but Winnipeggers will be able to see her confectionary couture creations onstage this week when the RWB presents the Manitoba premiere of Hansel & Gretel.

New Zealand costume designer Kate Hawley has designed many costumes for the big screen — including for the forthcoming Frankenstein — but Winnipeggers will be able to see her confectionary couture creations onstage this week when the RWB presents the Manitoba premiere of Hansel & Gretel.

If you read one thing today, make it this!

Sad to hear Jane Goodall has died. I got the incredible pleasure of sitting down with her for an in-person interview 10 years ago and it remains a career high. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Am very honoured to co-anchor today’s CBC News Special on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - check it out at 2 p.m. ET (1 pm CT) on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC News Network, CBC News streaming channels, the CBC News app and the CBC News YouTube Channel www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Meet the new guy at @rwballet.bsky.social! Christopher Stowell has officially been artistic director since June 1, and he has been busy. Here’s my profile of the first new RWB AD in 30 years 🩰

We're very excited to welcome Sabrina Janke, Alex Judge, and @jenzoratti.bsky.social to the store on Friday November 28 to launch Portage & Main! www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18828/...

Korn performs in Winnipeg tomorrow. So obviously I had to pair some of the nu metal band's biggest hits with corn recipes submitted by @winnipegfreepress.com readers. Read Korn on the Cob below 🤘🌽 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...