He’s Canada’s most decorated Indigenous veteran, and if a group of federal Conservative members of parliament get their way, Sgt. Tommy Prince will be the new face of the $5 bill. MPs Mart...

OTTAWA – Canada joined with its major allies Thursday in condemning China for imposing a new national security law on Hong Kong, one day after a contentious B.C. court ruling in the Meng Wanzhou...

A rural Manitoba teacher has been suspended for attending an anti-mask rally in Winnipeg Sunday after parents raised concerns she might expose their children to COVID-19. A photo circulating among...

There are two takeaways from Premier Heather Stefanson’s unexpected announcement Friday that all pandemic restrictions, including mask use, will be lifted over the next month. First, under her l...

The province of Manitoba is removing proof of vaccination requirements effective March 1, but True North Sports and Entertainment is going to wait a bit longer before loosening up. True North sent a...

Adam Bighill demands apology from TV host after remarks mock people with cleft lip, palate

It’s hard to imagine a more callous and indifferent answer than the one given this week by Premier Heather Stefanson, when asked about the tragic death of a Manitoba mother of two last year. Kry...

The provincial government has stepped in to help the Bear Clan continue its patrols on the streets of Winnipeg’s North End. The government announced Thursday it will provide $200,000 for Bear Cl...

Len Kropioski, famous for his salute during the singing of O Canada at Winnipeg Jets games, has died at age 98, his granddaughter confirmed late Tuesday. “It’s been a tough day,&...

COVID-19’s second wave has not been Premier Brian Pallister’s finest hour. The premier’s combative, stingy and shortsighted governing style has not served Manitobans well during one...

A marathon Brandon School Division meeting over the potential banning of LGBTQ+ books resulted in a definitive rejection of that idea by most of the board of trustees. At the end of this over-six-h...

Obby Khan isn’t sure what day it is. The morning after a Winnipeg Blue Bombers home game — a resounding win over the visiting Toronto Argonauts — Khan is seated in his flagship Shawa...

The nurse on the other end of the phone is nervous. You can hear it. It’s the same with every nurse who has reached out to the Free Press over the last few days offering to talk about their expe...

A Winnipeg barber is sharpening his scissors despite his shop being closed under public health orders. Jeremy Regan, owner of Hunter & Gunn barbershop, has decided to do house calls — or mor...

Anti-mask, anti-lockdown crusader Tobias Tissen has been caught going against the gospel he’s adamantly preached from the pulpit and at anti-restriction rallies since the pandemic began in 2020.

Not content to just boo from the sidelines, a group that doesn’t like the plays called by the “coach” of “Team Manitoba” in this COVID battle has decided to play its own...

Winnipeg Free Press writer Melissa Martin has been named Canada’s columnist of the year for the second time in her career. In a National Newspaper Awards ceremony that was livestreamed on the in...

Ron Turner remembers his son Randy saying in high school he wasn’t much for school but he sure liked writing in English class. “He would say he wasn’t an academic, he wouldn’t...

Eleven per cent of eligible children, aged five to 11, have received their first dose within one week of the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine being rolled out in Manitoba. In-school vaccinations, which...

City council has voted to maintain the “open streets” project route on Wellington Crescent that has been the source of debate among neighhbourhood residents and street users. Brenlee Carri...

An anti-lockdown, anti-mask conspiracy theorist from Ontario got what he asked for in Winnipeg Tuesday. Christopher Saccoccia, who goes by “Chris Sky”, took to social media Monday to goad...

One southern Manitoba church is now requiring proof of vaccination for its in-person Sunday services. Elim Mennonite Church in Grunthal, located about 28 kilometres southwest of Steinbach, made the...

The St. James of my childhood was a largely monochromatic world. Most of our neighbours were Caucasian, or more simply, white. So were my classmates. The same could be said for the subscribers on my...

CALGARY — After 29 years of waiting, after 348 months of heartbreak, after 1,513 weeks of despair and after 10,591 days of doubt, this sentence can finally be written: the Winnipeg Blue Bombers...

The NDP has hung on to its lead provincially and overtaken the governing Progressive Conservatives in vote-rich Winnipeg, including battleground constituencies and Tory strongholds. Not since the...

PENTICTON, B.C. — It was the time in-between curling. The time after the last rock, the last grand slam, and one magical run to the 2017 Scotties final. It was also the time before the prize tha...

Which pop do you pick when you pick a pop? For many Winnipeggers, the answer to that question, especially in bygone days, was not Coca-Cola or Mountain Dew, but appropriately enough, Pic-a-Pop. In...

Medical students at the University of Manitoba are pushing for the Pallister government to provide universal access to two-pill abortion drug Mifegymiso. The group of doctors-in-training, who call...

Calls for a pandemic reckoning are getting louder as Manitoba’s health-care system collapses under unprecedented patient volumes. After Premier Heather Stefanson urged Manitobans to look after t...

OTTAWA – A prominent organizer of the three-week convoy protest outside Parliament Hill that snarled traffic, shuttered businesses and plagued residents with near-constant honking has been denie...

Free pads and tampons could be coming to select City of Winnipeg facilities. A public service report recommends a one-year free menstrual product pilot project at six city recreation facilities and...

A Winnipeg church has been fined $9,000 after it admitted a much-criticized graduation ceremony held at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic violated a public health order banning indoor gatherings....

Five days into a protest that has choked a main artery downtown and left area residents’ ears ringing, Mayor Brian Bowman said police should be expected to apply the law and bring the demonstrat...

Winnipeg’s pizza crowd is well-served when it comes to varied approaches to their preferred pleasure. Shorty’s Pizza on Maryland Street offers fold-over, New York-style ’zas, Tommy&r...

Heather Stefanson was unaware critically ill COVID-19 patients were being prepared for transfer to a Thunder Bay hospital last spring and, as health minister at the time, insisted local intensive-c...

GoFundMe has frozen access to the more than $4.7 million in funds raised by the trucker convoy now wending its way across the country toward Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates. “We req...