A Tataskewayak Cree Nation nurse, who is desperate to work in Manitoba, has been barred from practising after failing an English exam that advocates argue is prejudiced against First Nations people.

Blank school walls and human skin are common canvases for Métis artist Justine Proulx.

On the corner of Lilac Street and Mulvey Avenue, three tall, stately American elm trees bear an ominous orange dot. It’s Winnipeg’s mark of death: the familiar, telltale sign that a tree won’t live through the coming winter.

Shaundria Yellowback travelled almost 600 kilometres by plane — a 90-minute flight via Perimeter Aviation — to get to class for the first day of Grade 12.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on provincial governments’ approaches, and how making Sept. 30 a provincial statutory holiday should be a no-brainer in Manitoba.

Since the tragic stabbings in Saskatchewan and the subsequent deaths of those accused, Damien and Myles Sanderson, many have looked for something or someone to blame.

A Winnipeg Free Press analysis of publicly available homicide data suggests the number of youth and young adults (ages 18 to 21) implicated in killings has risen during the past 10 years.

Although homicides involving Indigenous people continue to rise in Manitoba, solutions are hard to come by, writes Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair.

While design changes are being implemented, a portion of the sales of the remaining cans with the red-handed label that are in stores will be donated to the Indigenous Women’s Healing Centre.

Arenas are some of Winnipeg’s biggest energy sinks. A handful of city councillors are looking to change that.