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Scott Billeck
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Reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press.
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Vacant Main Street hotel ‘total loss’ after overnight fire
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Vacant Winnipeg Main Street hotel ‘total loss’ after overnight fire
An overnight blaze Wednesday that destroyed a dilapidated hotel, forced the evacuation of about 150 people from a shelter next door and shut down Main Street traffic in both directions is being descri...
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January 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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‘There’s peace here’: Season’s messages of love, joy and family on full display at St. Vital group home for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Season’s messages of love and joy at St. Vital group home for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities
There’s a promise of warmth inside before anyone opens the door. On the deck, a table wearing a thin layer of fresh snow has been transformed into a greeting. “Happy Winter,” it reads, etched by hand....
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December 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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‘There’s peace here’: Season’s messages of love, joy and family on full display at St. Vital group home for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Season’s messages of love and joy at St. Vital group home for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities
There’s a promise of warmth inside before anyone opens the door. On the deck, a table wearing a thin layer of fresh snow has been transformed into a greeting. “Happy Winter,” it reads, etched by hand....
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December 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Residents, biz owners plead with NDP to scrap plan for Henry Avenue drug site

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Residents, biz owners plead with NDP to scrap plan for Henry Avenue drug site
Many of the residents and business owners who packed a town hall across the street from the proposed supervised drug consumption site in the North Logan neighbourhood on Tuesday night, voiced fierce o...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Few public figures have faced a year as punishing as Pierre Poilievre has in 2025. He started with a 25-point poll lead, only to suffer a dramatic election loss—along with his own seat. Since then, he has watched Liberals near a majority as his MPs abandon him.
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Main Street Project says occupants in a lurch after city cleared out Mostyn Park camp

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Main Street Project says occupants in a lurch after city cleared out Mostyn Park camp
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December 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Sex offender accused in St. Vital school washroom incident twice breached court order at nearby high school: police

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Sex offender accused in St. Vital school washroom incident twice breached court order at nearby high school: police
A convicted sex offender who allegedly grabbed a young girl at a St. Vital elementary school two weeks ago is now facing new charges after police say he showed up twice at a nearby high school in viol...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Eager Winnipeggers line up to snap up sorely missed star-spangled booze

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Eager Winnipeggers line up to snap up sorely missed star-spangled booze
Lorraine Goudie stepped out of her warm car and into the first spot in a line at the Crestview Liquor Mart — a queue that soon stretched south along the L-shaped strip mall’s corridor on a frigid Wedn...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Encampment clearing strains agency beyond its limits: Street Links director

Says ban lacks support strategy; city touts ‘compassionate approach’

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Winnipeg encampment clearing strains agency beyond its limits: Street Links director
Marion Willis picked up her phone Thursday morning sounding both exasperated and exhausted. “I’m just swamped,” the executive director of St. Boniface Street Links said with a deep sigh. “I’m frustrat...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Parents miffed by lack of communication about sex offender involved in school incident

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Parents miffed by lack of communication about sex offender involved in school incident
Parents are concerned they weren’t warned a convicted sex offender, who is accused of grabbing a child in an elementary school last week, had been removed from a nearby high school that morning and in...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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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