Rebecca Chambers
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Columnist & project lead for media literacy platform @winnipegfreepress.com, high school teacher, grad student @UManitoba.bsky.social, lifelong learner, Autism mom, love warrior.
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Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
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Today in kid's news: Brothers find super rare comic book in their mom's attic, and sell it for over 9 million dollars!
What are some things that are valuable to you, that you would never consider selling?
How is value different from cost?
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What are some things that are valuable to you, that you would never consider selling?
How is value different from cost?
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a rare Superman comic book! And it fetched $9.12M!
A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother’s attic, netted $9.12 million this month at a Texas auction house which says it is the most expensi...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today in kid's news: Brothers find super rare comic book in their mom's attic, and sell it for over 9 million dollars!
What are some things that are valuable to you, that you would never consider selling?
How is value different from cost?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
What are some things that are valuable to you, that you would never consider selling?
How is value different from cost?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Today in kid's news: A miniature made-in-Manitoba satellite is headed to the moon, and an Indigenous knowledge-keeper is contributing traditional star-guided navigation techniques and teachings to help students chart its' path.
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U of M over the moon about satellite’s lunar launch
A milk-carton sized satellite built by Manitoba researchers will go where no Canadian spacecraft has gone before — the moon’s orbit.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today in kid's news: A miniature made-in-Manitoba satellite is headed to the moon, and an Indigenous knowledge-keeper is contributing traditional star-guided navigation techniques and teachings to help students chart its' path.
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Engaging children with local news means they see themselves reflected in the bigger picture, they see their home as a place of history, progress, and importance. The stories that dominate social media don't have to define them, and they have the power to determine their own narratives and futures.
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Engaging children with local news means they see themselves reflected in the bigger picture, they see their home as a place of history, progress, and importance. The stories that dominate social media don't have to define them, and they have the power to determine their own narratives and futures.
Parents and caregivers of children with disabilities in Canada: this is essential information about RDSPs and something to consider for the security of your child's future.
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Opinion: Gift that keeps giving
Imagine a gift this holiday season that could one day be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. And it would all start with the impetus to contribute to a little-known registered savings plan. It’s f...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Parents and caregivers of children with disabilities in Canada: this is essential information about RDSPs and something to consider for the security of your child's future.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
An excellent article for teachers of LifeWorks: why personal expression and advocacy in the workplace must be balanced with empathy and active listening.
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Opinion: Not enough for individuals to recognize own emotions, they must also recognize emotions of co-workers
Today’s workplaces are full of people who have learned how to talk about their feelings with more openness than ever before. Schools have played an important role in this shift by helping children ide...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
An excellent article for teachers of LifeWorks: why personal expression and advocacy in the workplace must be balanced with empathy and active listening.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
Aujourd'hui, dans l'actualité des enfants : une jeune nageuse artistique apprend dans sa propre langue.
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Un programme qui ouvre la voie
À 5 ans, Éléonore découvre la natation synchronisée… dans sa langue maternelle. Grâce à la détermination de sa mère et à l’engagement de deux jeunes entraîneuses francophones, un tout nouveau programm...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Aujourd'hui, dans l'actualité des enfants : une jeune nageuse artistique apprend dans sa propre langue.
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FYI this is not us but also maybe no swim
meet today after all as the highway is closed. Hoping everyone is ok.
meet today after all as the highway is closed. Hoping everyone is ok.
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
FYI this is not us but also maybe no swim
meet today after all as the highway is closed. Hoping everyone is ok.
meet today after all as the highway is closed. Hoping everyone is ok.
Kids news will be updated tomorrow. This morning I’ve been on the highway since 5am to get to my kiddos swim meet in Kenora. Yawn.
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Kids news will be updated tomorrow. This morning I’ve been on the highway since 5am to get to my kiddos swim meet in Kenora. Yawn.
Today's kids news: help name the city's snow plows and win a pizza lunch with the mayor!
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City plows ahead with naming contest
The City of Winnipeg is inviting people of all ages to submit names for 12 heavy machines, and a team of pathway plows, used to clear snow. Other Canadian cities, including Edmonton and Kamloops, have...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today's kids news: help name the city's snow plows and win a pizza lunch with the mayor!
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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The Winnipeg Free Press Media Literacy & Learning platform is LIVE and there is much more to come! Check out the work so far here:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/education
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Media Literacy & Learning
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
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November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Winnipeg Free Press Media Literacy & Learning platform is LIVE and there is much more to come! Check out the work so far here:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/education
www.winnipegfreepress.com/education
Today in news for kids:
Sometimes pets go hungry in Winnipeg too: How the humane society supports keeping pets with their families and what you can do to help.
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Sometimes pets go hungry in Winnipeg too: How the humane society supports keeping pets with their families and what you can do to help.
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Humane society launches holiday hamper drive amid spike in pet food bank demand
Rachelle St. Cyr has had to scrape together change or go without basic necessities if it means her three cats are happy and healthy. The 49-year-old self-described animal lover has had her two senior....
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today in news for kids:
Sometimes pets go hungry in Winnipeg too: How the humane society supports keeping pets with their families and what you can do to help.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Sometimes pets go hungry in Winnipeg too: How the humane society supports keeping pets with their families and what you can do to help.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Today's kids news:
Harvest Manitoba expands its' snack kits to more schools and communities, ensuring Manitoban kids have accessible, healthy food to take home from school each weekend.
Side note: my own kids school is part of the program. It's awesome.
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Harvest Manitoba expands its' snack kits to more schools and communities, ensuring Manitoban kids have accessible, healthy food to take home from school each weekend.
Side note: my own kids school is part of the program. It's awesome.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Harvest Manitoba expands weekend snack program in province
Thousands more children will get nutritious snacks to eat on weekends thanks to Harvest Manitoba.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Today's kids news:
Harvest Manitoba expands its' snack kits to more schools and communities, ensuring Manitoban kids have accessible, healthy food to take home from school each weekend.
Side note: my own kids school is part of the program. It's awesome.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Harvest Manitoba expands its' snack kits to more schools and communities, ensuring Manitoban kids have accessible, healthy food to take home from school each weekend.
Side note: my own kids school is part of the program. It's awesome.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Today in kids news: a new museum is coming to Winnipeg, full of vintage gaming and computing technology!
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Manitoba Computer and Gaming Museum powers up
Founders behind the proposed Manitoba Computer & Gaming Museum aim to open a permanent location in 2027. The first iteration — a pop-up — is set to appear Tuesday at an annual conference for tech afic...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today in kids news: a new museum is coming to Winnipeg, full of vintage gaming and computing technology!
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
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Today's free article for kids:
What does the city do with all the poop? And why do some people think poop is valuable? After reading the article, do you agree with them?
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What does the city do with all the poop? And why do some people think poop is valuable? After reading the article, do you agree with them?
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City tries to get the most bang for its (sewage) buck
The City of Winnipeg is exploring new ways to reuse its treated sewage sludge. An expression of interest seeks feedback on the best options and technology available to recycle biosolids, a byproduct o...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today's free article for kids:
What does the city do with all the poop? And why do some people think poop is valuable? After reading the article, do you agree with them?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
What does the city do with all the poop? And why do some people think poop is valuable? After reading the article, do you agree with them?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Do you know a young person who's just starting out in the working world? Here's some indispensable advice from the Winnipeg Free Press:
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Opinion: Starting strong: building habits for great career, reputation in work world
Starting your first job is exciting and a little intimidating. You’ve probably worked hard to get here through school, interviews and all the waiting that comes with trying to get a foot in the door.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Do you know a young person who's just starting out in the working world? Here's some indispensable advice from the Winnipeg Free Press:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
In today's Free Press: reviews of new books for children! (Free article)
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Indigenous anthology an inspiring resource
You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People (Tundra, 120 pages, hardcover, $29), edited by Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair, is a thoughtful book that will spe...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In today's Free Press: reviews of new books for children! (Free article)
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Just in time for the Santa Claus Parade, my column on being well prepared.
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Opinion: The essential parental guide guide to surviving Winnipeg's Santa Claus Parade
Learn from me, oh citizens. Here is the essential survival guide to Saturday
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November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Just in time for the Santa Claus Parade, my column on being well prepared.
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Today's free article for kids:
Is AI hurting our ability to be creative? What do we miss when we don't do the work ourselves? What do we gain? And how should we decide when to use AI?
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Is AI hurting our ability to be creative? What do we miss when we don't do the work ourselves? What do we gain? And how should we decide when to use AI?
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Opinion: Artificial art a threat to human creativity
Thinking of Drew Struzan’s art — magic, really — in hand-drawn film posters, it’s hard not to think that this particular form will be another casualty of artificial intelligence, another art form redu...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today's free article for kids:
Is AI hurting our ability to be creative? What do we miss when we don't do the work ourselves? What do we gain? And how should we decide when to use AI?
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Is AI hurting our ability to be creative? What do we miss when we don't do the work ourselves? What do we gain? And how should we decide when to use AI?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Today's free news for kids:
Why is the colour red so rare in Aurora Borealis, and what causes it? Why are we seeing them so much more frequently this year? And why can your cell phone camera pick up colours in them that your eye cannot?
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Why is the colour red so rare in Aurora Borealis, and what causes it? Why are we seeing them so much more frequently this year? And why can your cell phone camera pick up colours in them that your eye cannot?
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Rare red auroras dazzle as part of Manitoba light show
Solar storm chasers, rejoice: 2025 was an excellent year for aurora borealis, and the remainder of the year could be just as active.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Today's free news for kids:
Why is the colour red so rare in Aurora Borealis, and what causes it? Why are we seeing them so much more frequently this year? And why can your cell phone camera pick up colours in them that your eye cannot?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Why is the colour red so rare in Aurora Borealis, and what causes it? Why are we seeing them so much more frequently this year? And why can your cell phone camera pick up colours in them that your eye cannot?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Today's free news for kids:
Discussion starters:
What are some of the ways you connect with others to share common interests?
What clubs or groups in your school help people feel like they belong? What ideas for other clubs do you have?
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Discussion starters:
What are some of the ways you connect with others to share common interests?
What clubs or groups in your school help people feel like they belong? What ideas for other clubs do you have?
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High score: Winnipeg Video Game Orchestra goes from joysticks to drumsticks, with classical takes on familiar themes
There is, evidently, a lot of crossover between band nerds and video game enthusiasts. Concert Preview Winnipeg Video Game Orchestra With 8-bit and the Single Players Jubilee Place, 181 Riverton Ave.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today's free news for kids:
Discussion starters:
What are some of the ways you connect with others to share common interests?
What clubs or groups in your school help people feel like they belong? What ideas for other clubs do you have?
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Discussion starters:
What are some of the ways you connect with others to share common interests?
What clubs or groups in your school help people feel like they belong? What ideas for other clubs do you have?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Today's article to share with children:
Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war – connections to history, place, and the ways in which we honour our past, including some lesser-known Manitoba war memorials.
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Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war – connections to history, place, and the ways in which we honour our past, including some lesser-known Manitoba war memorials.
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Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war
Tucked at the end of a walkway, which dead-ends between the University Centre and the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing on the University of Manitoba campus, stands a monument in memory of students who n...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Today's article to share with children:
Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war – connections to history, place, and the ways in which we honour our past, including some lesser-known Manitoba war memorials.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war – connections to history, place, and the ways in which we honour our past, including some lesser-known Manitoba war memorials.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Today's free news article for kids!
Some ideas for conversations or lessons:
-What's a "Hall of fame"?
-What are some other ways and places we preserve and share our history? Why do we do this?
-If you had a personal toy hall of fame, what would be in it?
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Some ideas for conversations or lessons:
-What's a "Hall of fame"?
-What are some other ways and places we preserve and share our history? Why do we do this?
-If you had a personal toy hall of fame, what would be in it?
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Slime, Battleship and Trivial Pursuit join the Toy Hall of Fame
Slime, that gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything, was enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with perennial bestselling games Battleship and Trivial Pursuit. Each year, t...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Today's free news article for kids!
Some ideas for conversations or lessons:
-What's a "Hall of fame"?
-What are some other ways and places we preserve and share our history? Why do we do this?
-If you had a personal toy hall of fame, what would be in it?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Some ideas for conversations or lessons:
-What's a "Hall of fame"?
-What are some other ways and places we preserve and share our history? Why do we do this?
-If you had a personal toy hall of fame, what would be in it?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Today's free article to share with young kids and students:
Puppy Sphere yoga chain rolls out ‘mood-boosting’ first classes in Winnipeg
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Puppy Sphere yoga chain rolls out ‘mood-boosting’ first classes in Winnipeg
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Puppy Sphere yoga chain rolls out ‘mood-boosting’ first classes in Winnipeg
Winnipeg yogis seeking to do a downward dog while surrounded by dogs are in luck: puppy yoga is here. Toronto-based company Puppy Sphere began offering weekend yoga classes at Yoga Public (280 Fort St...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Today's free article to share with young kids and students:
Puppy Sphere yoga chain rolls out ‘mood-boosting’ first classes in Winnipeg
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Puppy Sphere yoga chain rolls out ‘mood-boosting’ first classes in Winnipeg
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Today's News for Kids, from the Winnipeg Free Press:
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Donation drive back on its feet after sock theft
There’s a cold-hearted thief in Winnipeg who won’t have cold feet. Someone made off with more than 160 pairs of socks, to be donated to people in need, that were in Ashley Munro’s car, which was parke...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Today's News for Kids, from the Winnipeg Free Press:
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I am overjoyed to finally be able to say that this is the project I'm leading! Pick up a Free Press to read the rest of the article!
May 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I am overjoyed to finally be able to say that this is the project I'm leading! Pick up a Free Press to read the rest of the article!