I am so looking forward to reading this investigation by @ashleyokwuosa.bsky.social and her colleagues at @theexamination.org, as part of a project collaborating with a group of worldwide newsrooms, including the @thestar.com. www.theexamination.org/articles/red...

Is it safe to drink Red Bull and vodka? Dubious research tied to the company has shaped energy drink policy.

The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.

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Fifteen years ago, Manitoba passed a groundbreaking law intended to extract damages from people convicted of crimes related to child sexual abuse material — and use this to compensate survivors of this kind of abuse. The problem? It's never once been used. My latest ⬇️

Manitoba law meant to aid survivors of child sexual abuse imagery has never been put to the test

A Manitoba law meant to provide financial support to survivors of child sexual abuse that was recorded and distributed online has never once been used in its 15 years of existence, the Free Press has ...

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Fifteen years ago, Manitoba passed a groundbreaking law intended to extract damages from people convicted of crimes related to child sexual abuse material — and use this to compensate survivors of this kind of abuse. The problem? It's never once been used. My latest ⬇️

Manitoba law meant to aid survivors of child sexual abuse imagery has never been put to the test

A Manitoba law meant to provide financial support to survivors of child sexual abuse that was recorded and distributed online has never once been used in its 15 years of existence, the Free Press has ...

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"In Canada, (alcohol) is responsible for an estimated nearly 9,500 new cases of cancer and nearly 4,000 cancer deaths each year ... If any of this seems like news, experts following the industry say it's by design." By Annie Burns-Pieper/@theijf.org ⬇️ theijf.org/article/alco...

The connection between alcohol and cancer is well known. So why are there no warning labels on bottles?

Lobbying records reveal years of organized opposition to cancer warning labels

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A new analysis, released Tuesday, of online sex advertisements featuring Indigenous women has identified cross-country corridors that are highly indicative of sex trafficking, while revealing insight into how women and girls are exploited in Winnipeg. Report link: tinyurl.com/mm9wcd7z My story ⬇️

Report draws link between missing Indigenous women and trafficking across Canada

A new analysis of online sex advertisements featuring Indigenous women has identified cross-country corridors that are highly indicative of sex trafficking, while revealing insight into how women and ...

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I'm trying to switch from Otter to a different transcribing platform with better privacy and turns out if your paid plan lapses, the company locks your recordings older than 30 days. Learn from my mistake—record off the platform, then upload; I often didn't do this and now my files are held hostage.

Scoop: The Liberal government is sitting on a proposal from Meta that could restore news to Facebook and Instagram in Canada. But Playbook has learned the offer is now caught up in broader Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

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Great story by Ian Bickis/Canadian Press ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...

An eroding Winnipeg neighbourhood looks to new foundations

WINNIPEG - The lot Jesse Bettcher lives on in Winnipeg

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This was from 2025. A dark congrats to cartoonist Greg Perry for predicting the future.

Me planning when I can take a weeklong log building course with the whole family 😀

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

The company argues that it’s for individuals to ensure they don’t ‘actively exploit’ this technology. That won’t keep children safe, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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"For now, as we walk and bike and work and play under the shade of 120-year-old trees, we should pause to thank those who planted them. It’s easy to forget that the urban forest did not spring up on its own." By @doubleemmartin.bsky.social 🌲🍃 www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...

Opinion: When it comes to our city’s tree canopy, Winnipeggers stand tall

Summer came to Winnipeg a little late, and a whole lot wet, but at least it finally came. It felt as if, in the last week or so, the rain finally took a backseat to the sun and heat, and the brief but...

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I'm back at work today after two incredible weeks spent in Berlin, Kraków and Oświęcim, studying with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), along with 45 or so fellows who are working around the world in journalism, medicine and religious leadership.

"What can be said with some assurance is that sending a young, impressionable first-time offender to prison is not going to make him a better person, and is not going to leave him undamaged." Gut punch of a story by my colleague Dean Pritchard www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202...

Unmoved by young offender’s progress, Manitoba judge ordered prison term; Indigenous man later chose death

The day started with an email from my editor.

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With Canada proposing new regulations for social media use for teens, you can read into the safety issues that have evolved online for kids and teens in my latest feature, profiling the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, here in Winnipeg. www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202...

Winnipeg-based organization resolute in its global mission — protecting children from online pedophiles

More than a century ago, a brick two-storey building near the banks of the Assiniboine River opened as an orphanage. Later, it became a residential school for First Nations children sent hundreds of k...

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Operating from a quiet, Winnipeg neighbourhood, @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social is a global leader in the fight to end the sexual exploitation of children. I spent months learning about their herculean efforts; it’s a heavy story but not one without hope. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Winnipeg-based organization resolute in its global mission — protecting children from online pedophiles

More than a century ago, a brick two-storey building near the banks of the Assiniboine River opened as an orphanage. Later, it became a residential school for First Nations children sent hundreds of k...

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Winnipeggers can pick up a copy of this story tomorrow, in our Saturday paper's 49.8 section, with incredible photography from Ruth Bonneville and illustrations by Kris Kuzdub from Kirsch Street Studio. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Winnipeg-based organization resolute in its global mission — protecting children from online pedophiles

More than a century ago, a brick two-storey building near the banks of the Assiniboine River opened as an orphanage. Later, it became a residential school for First Nations children sent hundreds of k...

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Marsha masterfully weaves the history of 615 Academy, the reality of the Assiniboia Residential School, Ted Fontaine’s wisdom, Candace’s abduction & murder, Wilma’s lifechanging dedication to supporting families, & the development of C3P. On behalf of C3P - thank you @marshamcleod.bsky.social!

Marsha McLeod@marshamcleod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Operating from a quiet, Winnipeg neighbourhood, @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social is a global leader in the fight to end the sexual exploitation of children. I spent months learning about their herculean efforts; it’s a heavy story but not one without hope. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Set back from Academy Road, in Winnipeg’s affluent River Heights neighbourhood, is a two-storey building that was once known as the Julia Clark School.

Guardians on the prairies

Winnipeg-based organization resolute in its global mission — protecting children from online pedophiles

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This is a long read, about 7,000 words, and I am grateful to our readers for being open to giving their time to our reporting.

Marsha McLeod@marshamcleod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Operating from a quiet, Winnipeg neighbourhood, @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social is a global leader in the fight to end the sexual exploitation of children. I spent months learning about their herculean efforts; it’s a heavy story but not one without hope. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Operating from a quiet, Winnipeg neighbourhood, @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social is a global leader in the fight to end the sexual exploitation of children. I spent months learning about their herculean efforts; it’s a heavy story but not one without hope. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Winnipeg-based organization resolute in its global mission — protecting children from online pedophiles

More than a century ago, a brick two-storey building near the banks of the Assiniboine River opened as an orphanage. Later, it became a residential school for First Nations children sent hundreds of k...

winnipegfreepress.com

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

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Unclaimed bodies in #Manitoba reached a record high in 2025 and one family in the province has questions as to how their loved one became one of the 238.

Manitoba logs record-high increase in unclaimed bodies

When Robert Dobson died last year, no one attended his funeral.

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I am really pleased to be representing @columbiajournalism.bsky.social and @winnipegfreepress.com at the FASPE fellowship in Berlin and Kraków later this month, and will be studying with the program from June 19-July 3.

Columbia Journalism School@columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌍 Five members of the Columbia Journalism School community are among the 14 fellows selected for the 2026 FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) Journalism Fellowship, a program that challenges journalists to confront the ethical dimensions of their work.

Wanted to share a piece I had the privilege to write over the last few weeks. It is beautiful to hear families talk about their loved ones. Thanks to Christina's family for speaking with me 🙏 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Even residential school couldn’t erase who Christina Henderson was

Over her life, Christina Gladys Henderson was known by a few names.

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NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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Quick thread on the long-term care issue we launched today at @thelocal.to, spearheaded by the brilliant @royinori.bsky.social, and why it’s such vital public-interest journalism. 🧵 1/ thelocal.to/spring-2026/

Inspecting Long-Term Care | The Local

Five years after a pandemic that revealed the disastrous conditions in Ontario’s long-term care homes, we investigate the state of oversight in the sector. Rolling out over the next two weeks, our “In...

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For so many, Bob has been an incredible mentor. Bob took a chance hiring me in his bureau, in 2022, with little daily news experience. The year I spent working on his team made me a better reporter and it was truly incredible to see his unfailing energy for this work day after day after day.

The Hill Times@hilltimes.com · 2mo ago

Tim Powers: Fife has forged a lasting legacy As he nears retirement from the daily grind, you can’t talk about Bob Fife and not talk about passion. www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/27/f...