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Boom-bust mining towns like Leaf Rapids, Man. are fading into oblivion. Some remaining residents are left fighting for the basic necessities of life, others have fled for survival. This week's
#longread
explores what was once the crown jewel of the north, and its steep decline over 50 years.
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Manitoba's summer wildfire threat was the latest nail in the coffin for once-prosperous Leaf Rapids
LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets sky. Ravens patrol the air, pausing to swoop down to in...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/12/04/bright-past-bleak-future
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Scoop: The province quietly updated its regulations to allow for institutional safety officers to be stationed at MB Hydro and MB Housing buildings. The change came right before an armed man attacked a Hydro employee at its downtown HQ.
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Hydro, Manitoba Housing HQ to hire safety officers to battle escalating violence
Safety officers equipped with pepper gel and handcuffs and specially trained and licensed security staff will have the legal authority to restrain, detain and make an arrests.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/02/04/hydro-manitoba-housing-hq-to-hire-safety-officers-to-battle-escalating-violence
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Residents of a Manitoba Housing block in Osborne Village say they are fed up with crime in their building and fear for their safety, a day after a resident was charged for setting fire to it.
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Beleaguered tenants fed up with unsafe Manitoba Housing building in Winnipeg's Osborne Village
Residents of a Manitoba Housing block in Osborne Village say they are fed up with crime in their building and fear for their safety, a day after a resident was charged for setting fire to it. Sadie Be...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/01/13/beleaguered-tenants-fed-up-with-unsafe-manitoba-housing-building-in-osborne-village?utm_campaign=headstart&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9NFfC8DneImBvRyC4hbKAst_C6vYwW1hJxq7uwWvaWxPsnzqRWHYaQQ6slLxrWCc-oTOsQfODUzpeZr8YazvY5Wc8bFQ&_hsmi=16045117&utm_source=hubspot
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No one more deserving, frankly
#DootDoot
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CNN reporting Canadians boycotting the U.S. has, in fact, made an impact.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...
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Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business
Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/business/canada-trump-tariffs-trade
2 months ago
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If you trekked all the way to school this morning for work/learning, only for it to be cancelled -- my DMs are open!
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Hi
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: 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
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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
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ICYMI:
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Boom-bust mining towns like Leaf Rapids, Man. are fading into oblivion. Some remaining residents are left fighting for the basic necessities of life, others have fled for survival. This week's
#longread
explores what was once the crown jewel of the north, and its steep decline over 50 years.
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Manitoba's summer wildfire threat was the latest nail in the coffin for once-prosperous Leaf Rapids
LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets sky. Ravens patrol the air, pausing to swoop down to in...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/12/04/bright-past-bleak-future
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Huge scoop from
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Les was a special person and everyone who knew him was better because of it.
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Mueller, She Wrote
4 months ago
If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!
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Winnipeg Free Press
4 months ago
The fledgling Canada Water Agency, based in Winnipeg, is about to get its funding reduced just two years after the federal Liberal government unveiled it.
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Budget of Winnipeg-based federal water agency to take a hit
The fledgling Canada Water Agency, based in Winnipeg, is about to get its funding reduced just two years after the federal Liberal government unveiled it.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/11/05/budget-of-winnipeg-based-federal-water-agency-to-take-a-hit
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Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level
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Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/trump-erratic-foreign-policy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
4 months ago
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The New York Times
6 months ago
Marilyn Hagerty — who didn’t give a flying breadstick what the cynics thought — became a national celebrity when her review of a North Dakota Olive Garden went viral. She has died at age 99.
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Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral, Dies at 99
“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” she wrote from North Dakota. And suddenly the national media made her a celebrity.
https://nyti.ms/3Kfb6kq
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In the wake of today’s tragedy in Hollow Water First Nation,
@niigaanwewidam.bsky.social
column is a somber reflection and reminder.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/0...
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Opinion: Searching for answers in wake of horror
In the mid-1980s, during a confidential survey of 60 random citizens in Hollow Water First Nation, researchers were shocked to discover that 40 of them had been sexually abused as children, often in r...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/09/04/searching-for-answers-in-wake-of-horror
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Incredible from
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Manitoba's new online teacher registry was supposed to improve transparency within the education system and child safety, but the registry fails to disclose some dark secrets.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Child protection experts say Manitoba’s new teacher registry conceals more than it reveals
Despite promises that a new teacher registry launched at the start of the year would enhance transparency within the education system and improve children’s safety, critics have dismissed it as weak, ...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/06/27/classroom-confidential
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Tina-Desiree Berg
9 months ago
The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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Manitoba’s regional authorities spent over $35M last year in the ongoing effort to keep beleaguered hospital workers safe — a tenfold increase from ten years ago.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Manitoba’s regional authorities spent over $35M last year in the ongoing effort to keep health-care workers safe
Last Christmas Eve, a man walked into Thompson General Hospital with a loaded rifle concealed in his clothing. He moved through the emergency department and other areas — some full of patients — befor...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/06/06/security-costs-soar-on-health-cares-front-lines
9 months ago
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It is seemingly all quiet on the eastern front as a wildfire rages in Lac du Bonnet. Thank you to everyone who shared their story with me today.
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10 months ago
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ProPublica
10 months ago
NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By
@jessicamiller.bsky.social
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Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-farmers-therapy-mental-health-suicide-rates?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=1
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Winnipeg Free Press
11 months ago
The Free Press is looking to speak today to Manitobans who are travelling to Rome to attend Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday. To share your story, contact our reporter by email at
[email protected]
or by phone at 204-891-4633.
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New: data shows the use of private security guards is increasing in Manitoba.
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Eva Wasney
11 months ago
Story callout: Ahead of mother's day, I'm looking to speak with Winnipeggers about their childbirth experiences — good, bad and expectations vs reality. This is for a
@winnipegfreepress.com
article. Participation means being quoted in the paper and possibly photographed. DMs open, email in bio.
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Winnipeg Free Press
11 months ago
The Free Press is looking to speak today to Manitobans who paid out-of-pocket for the Shingrix, the vaccine that protects against shingles. To share your experience and perspective, contact our reporter by email at
[email protected]
or by phone at 204-470-7367.
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Police to announce Ashlee Shingoose is Buffalo Woman, serial killer’s only unidentified victim
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
May Ashley's family finally seek some peace and closure after years of unknowns. Rest in peace.
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Police to announce Ashlee Shingoose is Buffalo Woman, serial killer’s only unidentified victim
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the fourth victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashlee Shingoose of St. Theresa Point First Nation. Cindy Woodhouse Nepina...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/03/26/police-to-name-buffalo-woman-serial-killers-only-unidentified-victim
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
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Winnipeg Free Press
12 months ago
American rapper and singer Jelly Roll took a break from performing to shoot hoops and speak with incarcerated teens at the Manitoba Youth Centre before his sold-out show in Winnipeg.
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Pick and roll with Jelly Roll: star plays hoops, encourages inmates at Manitoba Youth Centre
American rapper and singer Jelly Roll took a break from performing to shoot hoops and speak with incarcerated teens at the Manitoba Youth Centre before his sold-out show in Winnipeg.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/03/19/pick-and-roll-with-jelly-roll-star-plays-hoops-encourages-inmates-at-manitoba-youth-centre
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Winnipeg Free Press
12 months ago
Following hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns, Manitoba Public Insurance is abandoning its Project Nova technology overhaul after a revised estimate pegged costs at $435 million, 50 per cent more than previously thought, the Free Press has learned.
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MPI cancels Project Nova as costs balloon
New $435-million estimate for tech overhaul four times original 2020 price tag; ‘waste of taxpayers’ money is over’
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/03/19/mpi-cancels-project-nova-as-costs-balloon
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Eva Wasney
12 months ago
I spent weeks combing through Manitoba's homegrown food industry so you don't have to! This
@winnipegfreepress.com
grocery guide isn't all-encompassing, but includes a wide range of sources for local produce, protein, dairy, grains, beverages, snacks and condiments.
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Made in Manitoba: A guide to locally produced goods
Maple leaf stickers, new “Product of Canada” signage and shoppers squinting at food labels to suss out the country of origin: In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada,…
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Winnipeg Free Press
12 months ago
Manitobans strongly support eliminating or limiting the need for sick notes, new research from Doctors Manitoba shows.
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Overwhelming majority of Manitobans support end to doctor’s-note requirement for short-term illnesses, report reveals
Manitobans strongly support eliminating or limiting the need for sick notes, new research from Doctors Manitoba shows.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/03/13/overwhelming-majority-of-manitobans-support-end-to-doctors-note-requirement-for-short-term-illnesses-report-reveals
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"In time, perhaps, the Americans will come to their senses. But the damage is done. Mr. Trump will never realize his dream of annexation. He has, however, succeeded in destroying the trust between our two nations, probably permanently."
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Opinion: Donald Trump is trying to destroy Canada
The U.S.’s tariffs are meant to break us. The only thing that they’ve certainly broken is the trust between historically close neighbours - maybe forever
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-donald-trump-is-trying-to-destroy-canada/
about 1 year ago
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West Broadway friends, the Sherbrook is back.
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New owner has big plans for Winnipeg's reopened Sherbrook hotel, vendor
Neil Soorsma has big plans for the Sherbrook Inn. The West Broadway hotel, located on Sherbrook Street at Westminster Avenue, has long had a reputation for attracting trouble — but the new owner is wo...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/03/01/you-just-dont-tolerate-certain-behaviours-new-owner-has-big-plans-for-reopened-sherbrook-hotel-vendor
about 1 year ago
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Finally got a response from RCMP about a Freedom of Information request I filed. In 2021. Nice.
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about 1 year ago
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Eva Wasney
about 1 year ago
Subscribe to your local paper! (FYI the
@winnipegfreepress.com
is one of few independent, Canadian-owned dailies left in the country.)
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
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Study shows importance of local news to Canadians
A new study shows the importance of local news to community knowledge, connections and democracy in small and mid-sized Canadian communities.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/2025/02/11/study-shows-importance-of-local-news
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Bartley Kives
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U.S president launches trade war against closest U.S. ally.
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Trump launches trade war against Canada with a 25% tariff on most goods | CBC News
President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on virtually all goods from the U.S.'s neighbour — an unprecedented strike against a longstandin...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-february-1-1.7447829
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Journalist asks court to prevent Winnipeg police access to unedited interview in mass shooting | CBC News
CityNews repoter Morgan Modjeski conducted an interview with the father of the man charged with murder following a mass shooting in Winnipeg more than a year ago. Winnipeg police won a court battle to...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/journalist-court-police-production-order-interview-winnipeg-mass-shooting-1.7446300
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After a mass exodus of sexual assault nurse examiners from HSC in 2023, the program is back and bigger than ever.
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Winnipeg program at HSC for sex assault survivors expands after staff shortage addressed
A program that treats survivors of sexual assault and gender-based violence has overcome staffing problems and has been able to expand across the province. After a mass exodus of nurses from the Healt...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/01/30/hsc-program-for-sex-assault-survivors-expands-after-staff-shortage-addressed
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Not unexpected, but still bleak news for Clear Lake:
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Eradicating zebra mussels from Clear Lake ‘not feasible’
Parks Canada now says eradicating zebra mussels from Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park “is not feasible.” The federal government agency said in a news release posted online Tuesday that...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/this-just-in/eradicating-zebra-mussels-from-clear-lake-not-feasible
about 1 year ago
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Tucked away in the basement of the Augustine United Church in the Village is a drop-in centre and overnight shelter, but some would never know. Thanks to Oak Table and everyone who shared their story for this. 'Being poor is a full-time job'
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Overnight shelter in Winnipeg offers comfort, safety from stress of living on the street
The mood is more like that of a sleepaway camp, not a shelter. Some say it’s because the rules at Just a Warm Sleep shelter, run by 1JustCity, are simple: be safe, respectful and responsible.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/01/24/being-poor-is-a-full-time-job
about 1 year ago
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ICYMI: The city ordered all tenants of the notorious Manwin Hotel to vacate over outstanding work and a faulty fire escape, but some tenants they're not going anywhere and the hotel's owner says the city is contributing to homelessness with the order.
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City of Winnipeg orders Manwin Hotel residents to vacate after fire
The owner of an infamous Main Street hotel says the city is contributing to homelessness by issuing a vacate order for dozens of tenants. The city has ordered 34 residents of the Manwin Hotel to evacu...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/01/22/city-orders-manwin-hotel-residents-to-vacate-after-fire
about 1 year ago
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RIP David Lynch.
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Justin Ling
about 1 year ago
future generations will remember this as a time of hat-based diplomacy
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A shooting at a northern Manitoba hospital is raising concerns about health facility safety with nurses and doctors calling for better security and protocols.
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Nurses, docs push for tighter security after gun fired in Thompson hospital chapel
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2024/12/27/nurses-docs-push-for-tighter-security-after-gun-fired-in-thompson-hospital-chapel
about 1 year ago
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The Narwhal
about 1 year ago
SCOOP: Audio of a closed-door meeting with Brokenhead Ojibway Nation reveals Sio Silica is now forging a comeback by seeking the nation’s support after its silica sand mine was rejected earlier this year. Not everyone is convinced:
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Maggie Macintosh
about 1 year ago
ATTN: Manitoba lovebirds 💍🫶💕🦢 I'm on the WFP news desk this week, and am searching for a couple that's planning to get hitched over the holidays. Is that you? If so, please shoot me an email at
[email protected]
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Alright fine. The Wire is really, really good.
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Community connections, the space in the downtown Millennium Library that provides support to the homeless population, will close at the end of this month when city funding comes to an end.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Funding pulled for downtown Winnipeg library space for homeless
Community connections, the space in the downtown Millennium Library that provides support to the homeless population, will close at the end of this month when city funding comes to an end. The municip...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2024/12/11/funding-pulled-for-downtown-library-space-for-homeless
about 1 year ago
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