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The Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is changing to give it more national reach. The charitable foundation that supports the Winnipeg-based national museum will get a new chief executive officer and an expanded board of directors that will include more representation from outside

Kids return to school this week, no doubt with stories for their friends about summer trips, lazy days at the lake and nights spent in front of a bonfire. Anna Evans-Boudreau has a lot of stories too, but hers are different. Inspired by documentaries she'd seen in school about youth making a

OTTAWA -- In three weeks, a private member's bill to can the long-gun registry will come up for a do-or-die vote and the factions on either side have been revving their engines hard. Every party stands to lose in this debate, no matter the outcome. The Conservatives could lose support in Quebec,

A suspected Maryland Street drug house is out of operation tonight... at least, for now. On Sunday evening at about 6 p.m., Winnipeg police raided the house that neighbours say believe is a drug den. Police tactical units were seen busting into the house, rifles at the ready and with K-9 unit...

Morrning fires, home invasion, cabbie-attack arrest

Winnipeg has a lot of green space and wild areas such as riverbanks, the Living Prairie Museum and Little Mountain Park, to name a few. These green spaces provide an opportunity for parents, teachers, caregivers and early-childhood educators to fight Nature Deficit Disorder and connect young

CREWS will resume combing the woods near Hadashville this morning in search of an 86-year-old man who never returned from a hike on Thursday. Just days after a missing mushroom-picker was found safe and sound, RCMP, along with local firefighters and search-and-rescue crews launched a full-scale

A MANITOBA mother is desperate to find her 20-yearold daughter who went missing 12 days ago. Susan Parent said her daughter, Stacey Thomas, went for a short walk in the small town of St. Joseph, near Emerson, around 9 p.m. on Aug. 23 and hasn’t returned. Parent reported her daughter

AFTER a summertime slow burn, all signs are finally pointing to a civic election. Campaign signs started popping up on lawns all over town Saturday, a Labour Day long weekend tradition marking the semiofficial start of the civic election campaign. Several candidates hosted open houses or

LET’S get one thing straight right from the start: When it comes to doing his job, Taz Stuart is relentless. “I don’t take summer holidays. I haven’t had a summer holiday in 18 years.” Why? Because his job is fighting bloodsuckers, and the summer is when they come

The Free Press will not publish tomorrow, Labour Day. The audience development (circulation) and display advertising departments will be closed. Classified advertising will be closed Sunday (today), but open Monday 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for obituary notices only at 697-7384. The audience

Peer into the dancing Abyss While the Abyss watch has a unique, blue LED look, it's the marketing material that really caught my eye. Case in point, the description of what happens when you tap the black touchscreen to see the time displayed in blue LEDs is as follows: "the screen explodes

No paper tomorrow The Free Press will not publish tomorrow, Labour Day. The audience development (circulation) and display advertising departments will be closed. Classified advertising will be closed Sunday (today), but open Monday 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for obituary notices only at...

HALIFAX -- Hurricane Earl is being blamed for one death as it barrelled through Atlantic Canada on Saturday, yanking trees from their roots and toppling power lines. Earl made landfall down the coast from Halifax, which appeared to have borne the brunt of the storm's strong winds. They uprooted

A squabble between two sisters ended with one dead from stab wounds and the other facing homicide charges, police said Saturday. The dispute began sometime before 8 p.m. Friday in a tidy, two-storey home in the Centennial neighbourhood. Police say two sisters in the home got involved in an

The following movies have been previously reviewed by Free Press movie critic Randall King, unless otherwise noted. THE AMERICAN Globe, Grant Park, Polo Park, St. Vital. 14A This too-cool-for-school crime thriller stars George Clooney as a morally haunted black-market gunsmith for hire at

Peer into the dancing Abyss While the Abyss watch has a unique, blue LED look, it's the marketing material that really caught my eye. Case in point, the description of what happens when you tap the black touchscreen to see the time displayed in blue LEDs is as follows: "the screen explodes with

Labour Day Classic The Banjo Bowl is the most anticipated home game of the season and is only one week away. For now, you'll have to cheer on the Bombers from your living room as the team takes on their rival Roughriders in the Labour Day Classic today in Saskatchewan. You can catch the game on

Designers fire up Mad Woman MAD Men's curve queen, Christina Hendricks, was very much on display at the Emmy Awards, in an off-the-shoulder, off-the-front lavender gown from Zac Posen. Many female stars borrow dresses for these awards shows from various big-shot designers, who are usually happy

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Antoine Predock is renowned for his splashy entrances and today is no exception. Fashionably late on a brutally hot August morning, Predock dashes out of the brightness of the day and bounds up the stairs of a small cottage, one of a labyrinthian complex of century-old