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Scott Billeck
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Reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press.
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‘She’s kind of that unicorn’
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Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud believes she’ll have greater impact by attacking homelessness on another front
If there is one thing Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud knows, it’s that tackling Winnipeg’s homelessness crisis requires support and ideas from all corners of the city. She has witnessed the crisis’s impact f...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Keeping the lights on: restaurants plan security upgrades in aftermath of arsons
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Keeping the lights on: Winnipeg restaurants plan security upgrades in aftermath of arsons
A serial arson spree in Winnipeg could lead to security changes for MLAs and their constituency offices, while some business owners spend thousands to add surveillance cameras or brighter lights.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Man charged in arson spree worked at two of the businesses targeted
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Man charged in Winnipeg arson spree worked at two of the businesses targeted
A man accused of setting more than a dozen fires downtown and in the north part of the city has personal connections to at least two of the businesses that were targeted.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Suspected arsonist’s arrest a relief for targeted cabinet ministers, business owners
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Suspected arsonist’s arrest a relief for targeted Manitoba cabinet ministers, business owners
A 35-year-old Winnipeg man has been charged in a five-month spree of arson attacks against the constituency offices of two NDP government cabinet ministers, downtown restaurants and bars and other loc...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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‘Keeping her name out there’: family marks 15 years since Indigenous woman vanished
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‘Keeping her name out there’: family marks 15 years since Indigenous woman vanished
Time has stood still for the family of Amber Guiboche. Monday will mark 15 years since the young Indigenous woman vanished without a trace — a painful milestone that brings no new answers, only the en...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Wholesale mayhem, retail nightmare
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Theft and violence across Winnipeg take serious toll on business owners
Last week, an employee at a business in Winnipeg’s Westwood neighbourhood found herself targeted when a customer hurled a cup of coffee at her.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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RCMP investigating macabre display threatening rural officials in yard on ‘sovereign land’
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RCMP investigating macabre display threatening rural officials in yard on ‘sovereign land’
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October 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Losing homelessness adviser disappointing, but new role ‘positive development,’ premier says
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Losing homelessness adviser disappointing, but new role ‘positive development,’ premier says
Manitoba’s premier says he would have preferred that his hand-picked adviser on homelessness stay in her role, after she resigned less than a year into the job. But a day after Tessa Blaikie Whiteclou...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Downtown restaurant blaze rekindles fire fears
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Downtown Winnipeg restaurant blaze rekindles fire fears
Another downtown restaurant burned early Thursday, reigniting concerns over a rash of fires that have plagued the city’s downtown and Exchange District neighbourhoods in recent months. Winnipeg Fire P...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A popular downtown restaurant burned early Thursday morning.
Downtown restaurant burns in early-morning fire
A popular downtown restaurant burned early Thursday morning.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The approach taken by Halifax has inspired a delegation from Winnipeg that’s searching for ways to address the homeless crisis in this city.
Winnipeg advised to mirror Halifax model to tackling homelessness
The approach taken by Halifax has inspired a delegation from Winnipeg that’s searching for ways to address the homeless crisis in this city.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Dead ‘over a damn dirt bike’: Families relieved after RCMP announce arrests in Victoria Beach double homicide; RCMP ask public for more info
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Families relieved after Manitoba RCMP announce arrests in Victoria Beach double homicide; RCMP ask public for more info
Two men are facing second-degree murder charges after a targeted shooting at a home in the Rural Municipality of Victoria Beach in June left a man dead and a woman killed simply for being in the wrong...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Two arrested in Victoria Beach double homicide
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Two arrested in Victoria Beach double homicide
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October 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Detox centre permit blunder causes commotion at legislature
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Detox centre permit blunder causes commotion at legislature
A clerical error involving a proposed detox centre had the Tories pointing fingers, the province defending itself and the city apologizing for its mistake on Tuesday. It began with the Progressive Con...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Funding for anonymous tip lines seeks to return power to neighbourhoods
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Funding for anonymous tip lines seeks to return power to neighbourhoods
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October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Seven Oaks pool closing at least a year for repairs, renovations; parents worry about dried-up swim-lesson opportunities
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Seven Oaks pool closing at least a year for repairs, renovations; parents worry about dried-up swim-lesson opportunities
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October 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Please take Danica Patrick off the F1 broadcast. Please.
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Police investigating fire at Fontaine’s constituency office
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Winnipeg police investigating fire at Manitoba MLA Fontaine's constituency office
The owners of a building leased by a Manitoba cabinet minister say two vandalism incidents in as many weeks are enough, and they want it to stop. “We’re pretty upset about it,” Linda Orsulak told the....
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October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Silenced no more: Indigenous languages celebrated at site of former residential school
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Silenced no more: Indigenous languages celebrated at site of former residential school in Winnipeg
Languages once suppressed at the Assiniboia Residential School are now prominently displayed at the site. More than 100 people gathered Tuesday at 621 Academy Rd., on the National Day for Truth and Re...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Late September lightning storm is *chef’s kiss*
September 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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‘They can’t break me’: Resident defiant after encampment burns
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‘They can’t break me’: Resident defiant after Winnipeg encampment burns
An encampment resident who lives along the banks of the Assiniboine River believes her shelter was deliberately set on fire Sunday night.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Does Winnipeg have any of these TikTokers who, if you catch a ball, get like $5,000? Asking for a friend…
September 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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‘Frustrating, shocking and sudden’: family desperate for details after mother killed in crash
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‘Frustrating, shocking and sudden’: family desperate for details after mother killed in crash
A week after Omotayo Samuel-Pepple was killed in a crash on Abinojii Mikanah, her family says they are still in the dark about how it happened.
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September 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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When two Winnipeg encampments that had more than 30 people living in them were about to be cleared earlier this summer, outreach groups, government officials and housing facilitators sprang into action.
Moving at the speed of trust
Collaboration, compassion and a clear sense of purpose among non-profit agencies and government recently moved more than 30 people out of homeless encampments and into supportive housing
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September 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Moving at the speed of trust
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Collaboration, compassion and a clear sense of purpose recently moved more than 30 people out of homeless encampments into supportive housing
When two Winnipeg encampments that had more than 30 people living in them were about to be cleared earlier this summer, outreach groups, government officials and housing facilitators sprang into actio...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM