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Old barn reconstructed in Lego, brick by brick

All they want for Christmas is their two front seats.

Listen: Niigaan and the Lone Ranger podcast

Listen to the latest episode of Niigaan and the Lone Ranger.

Festive feast of children’s books sure to please young readers

Are you still looking for the perfect gift for your favorite youngster? Want to give them something they’ll keep longer than the latest TikTok episode? Pick one of these recommended books and you’re sure to please. It also guarantees some quiet time on a hectic holiday day.

Become a Free Press Patron: secure a future for our independent journalism

When we began planning how to mark our 150th anniversary, I wanted to focus more on our future than our past.

COVID-19 by the numbers in Manitoba and across Canada

The Winnipeg Free Press is tracking the number and results of COVID-19 testing in Manitoba, as reported by the provincial government. Compare Manitoba's status to other provinces.

Winnipeg airport to offer continent’s first autonomous wheelchairs

In the years to come as autonomous wheelchairs zip mobility challenged travellers around airport terminals, Winnipeggers can take some pride in knowing that it happened here first.

Homemade holidays: 12 days of vintage sweets

To cap off the Free Press’s anniversary year, we’re plumbing the archives for holiday recipes of yore. Follow along until Dec. 23 for a sampling of the sweet, strange and trendy desserts to grace our pages and your tables over the last 150 years.

To see our archive of previous years of holiday baking click here.

Decades of donations link in Canada’s lifeline

Graham Moore uses six words when describing the attitude he had at 17, when he and some friends decided to donate blood during a local drive targeting high school students: “Hell yeah, we’ll help somebody out.”

Bob Dyce never considered coaching as a career; now he’s a CFL boss

There was a time Bob Dyce might have scoffed at the idea of coaching a football team, yet the Winnipegger is now responsible for running a CFL squad.

Roger Roulette spent a lifetime dedicated to understanding, analyzing and preserving his native Ojibwe language

It’s hard for Pat Ningewance to guess how many times it’s happened, that she’ll be working on a translation and find herself stuck. It’s never easy to translate between tongues, especially two as different as English and Ojibwe; so even Ningewance, a renowned University of Manitoba professor and translator, sometimes comes across a term that leaves her stumped.

Puppet’s poignant journey to real boy fraught with pain

‘I want to tell you a story,” says Sebastian J. Cricket (Ewan McGregor) in the trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s wondrously strange stop-motion-animation version of Pinocchio. “It’s a story you may think you know, but you don’t.”