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🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism!

Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...

Today, friends! Come get a book signed and get @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social to draw something in your copy! @greatplainspress.bsky.social

See evil, hear evil, speak no evil The silence is devastating when educators, their union and others turn a blind eye to preserve predators’ careers rather than protect children from life-altering abuse, victim says

Max Jenson wasn’t shocked when he read about a former teacher who groomed, isolated and obsessed over an elementary school student for years.

So I will be offering a Writing Circle through the @wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social that meets monthly from December through April. And the deadline is THIS FRIDAY, November 21.

Winnipeg students develop critical aptitude essential for navigating media landscape One day in the fall of 2024, two of Lily Godinez Goodman’s Grade 5 students came to her with a question: Why didn’t their Earl Grey School have a newspaper, they wondered — and if they started one, wo...

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...

Teachers, if you can check off any of the boxes below (!) then you should clear your calendar for Friday (Oct. 24).

@winnipegfreepress.com media literacy teachers are unveiling the beta version of our free K-12 #mbed platform at MTS PD Day!

Ariel Gordon & GMB Chomichuk to launch Blood Letters Ariel Gordon and GMB Chomichuk celebrate the launch of their collaborative book, Blood Letters, hosted by Susie Moloney.

This Friday October 17 at 7pm, join @ariel-gordon.bsky.social and @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social for the launch of their collaborative book, Blood Letters, hosted by @susiewrites.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/gordon... @greatplainspress.bsky.social

So my first FREE workshop at WPL has been announced: October 25 at the Windsor Park Library! Share/Sign up, friends!
@wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social

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So I interviewed novelist Giles Blunt for the Free Press in advance of his visit to Winnipeg for THIN AIR, which appeared in Saturday's paper. @dundurnpress.bsky.social @gilesbluntbooks.bsky.social

That's awesome! Congratulations!

I assume @mcnallyrobinson.com is on your list? Would be nice to see it on the shelves there.

Screenshot of newspaper article about wildfire smoke in Canada.

Yeah it’s not great up here…

A closed laptop covered with 3 stickers, two of which were made by Alex Plante. A chubby pigeon eating a hotdog and a Canada Goose in attack mode in front of a Canadian Flag. The other sticker is not important except that it makes me laugh because I always say, “actually!” In a nerdy voice when I see it.

You are such a brilliant creative, I’m so glad you choose to be on social’s spreading your chaos! Thank you! Every time I go to use my laptop I’m reminded about this.

Congratulations Jeff Hamilton and Katrina Clarke for winning the McGillivray Award for Investigative Journalism for "Building blocks, crumbling foundation"! Félicitations à Jeff Hamilton et Katrina Clarke pour avoir remporté le Prix McGillivray pour le journalisme d'enquête https://loom.ly/KxXN_80

Rebel “news” is a joke.

Winnipeg-born OB/GYN Jen Gunter moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rights In 1995, Dr. Jen Gunter arrived in Kansas. The Winnipeg-born-and-raised gynecologist was fresh out of her OB/GYN training at the University of Western Ontario, having completed medical school at the U...

Land of the flee: Winnipeg-born physician Dr. Jen Gunter moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rights, by @jenzoratti.bsky.social www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif... via @winnipegfreepress.com @drjengunter.bsky.social #infodemic #abortion #ReproRights

Denmark’s Maersk buys Panama Canal railway Deal loosens US control of train link at a time when Trump is seeking to ‘take back’ trade waterway

Denmark’s Maersk buys Panama Canal railway

https://www.ft.com/content/cb460c62-b587-4900-a0c5-722f6c2548d4

ordered. Also, if a certain local parka company that has the words, Canada, and Goose in their name don't contact you so they can make it their new logo, you should start a parka company so we can buy clothing with this as the patch.

Was just thinking this morning about the upcoming anniversary to the Winnipeg General Strike which started on May 15, 1919.
When our forebearers decided it was #elbowsup time.
Our working class is better off now because of it.
Americans think there is nothing that can be done to stop Trump.

Opinion: The never-paid 250 per cent Canadian dairy tariff Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that 250 per cent U.S. reciprocal tariffs would be levied on Canadian dairy products exported into the United States, because Canada had a dairy tariff...

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...

The truth is, according to 2024 Statistics Canada market data, Canada exported $357.9 million in dairy products to the U.S., while the U.S. exported $877.5 million worth of dairy products — without any tariffs — into Canada.

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

"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."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

@zondance.bsky.social

Keepsakes of lives left behind help sustain Ukrainians making new homes in Manitoba Food, water, clothing and tangible reminders of home. In the days and weeks following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the citizens under siege were forced to make an…

Ahead of the 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I spoke with three Ukrainian newcomers to Winnipeg about the homes they left behind and the precious belongings they escaped with.

Their stories at the link below.

https://buff.ly/4b9V9FK @winnipegfreepress.com

Shortly after arriving in Winnipeg with her family in 2022 , Daria Gorska found out she was pregnant.

While her daughter was the most precious package carried overseas, Daria also brought a working geiger counter from her life-changing career as a tour guide in Chernobyl.

📸 @mikedeal.bsky.social

Olesia Chychkevych packed up her 7-year-old sourdough starter so she could continue making bread, beloved by her three sons, wherever they landed.

And in a turn of fateful serendipity, her youngest also chose to bring his favourite stuffie: Winnie-the-Pooh.

📸 @mikedeal.bsky.social

We had a chance to share about Project SEARCH. I was so proud of Nathan, one of our students. He struggled to talk about what he could do, but very confidently *showed* what he is capable of. Thank you @maggiemacintosh.bsky.social and @mikedeal.bsky.social for sharing about this good work. ⬇️

Canada Border Services Agency already has 8,500 front-line officers, and Canada’s border is also patrolled by the RCMP between official crossings.
Last December the Canadian gov made a big announcement re border security.

www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

Manitoba to stop selling U.S. liquor in response to U.S. tariffs American beer, wine and other alcohol will soon be pulled from Liquor Mart shelves, premier Wab Kinew announced Sunday, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to levy steep tariffs on Ca...

From Katie May and I on Premier Wab Kinew's response to U.S. tariffs (pulling U.S. alcohol from Liquor Mart shelves, for one), with a focus on small businesses in Manitoba trying to figure out these announcements in real-time:

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Doctors Manitoba recruiting south of border Doctors Manitoba has taken the unusual step of launching a recruitment drive in the United States as Donald Trump prepares to begin a second term in the White House next month. “Practice where you are...

Doctors Manitoba has taken the unusual step of launching a U.S. recruitment drive as Trump prepares to begin a second term in the White House.

“Practice where you are valued and trusted as a physician and the government stays out of the exam room” #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...