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Free Press court reporter. Fan of musty pulp and greasy saxophone. Not made for these times.
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WPS officer pleads guilty to raft of corruption crimes committed over more than eight years
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WPS officer pleads guilty to raft of corruption crimes committed over more than eight years
Stripped of the uniform he wore for more than 22 years, disgraced police officer Elston Bostock stood before a judge Friday in jail-issue sweats and pleaded guilty to a raft of corruption offences spa...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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From colleague Erik Pindera
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Veteran Winnipeg Police Service officer pleads guilty to slew of charges
A veteran city police officer arrested on corruption charges dating back nearly a decade has pleaded guilty to a raft of offences. Winnipeg Police Service Const. Elston Bostock, 48, was first arrested...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Manitoba makes quick U-turn on sex criminal name change legislation
A law passed last year to prevent convicted sex offenders from changing their names is now in effect, the province said Wednesday. The announcement came only hours after the Free Press reported the ca...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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ICYMI

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‘Pretty protective’ Manitoba mother horrified to have unwittingly trusted convicted child sex offender who changed his name
A mother is living every parent’s worst nightmare: a man she came to trust and allowed to spend time with her pre-teen son is a convicted child sex offender — a fact hidden from her because he had cha...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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‘I think I killed a kid’
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Winnipeg teens with criminal records sentenced for machete attacks on boy, 80-year-old
Minutes after he and another teen attacked a 15-year-old boy with machetes, nearly severing the victim’s wrist and slicing off three fingers, he ran home and made a startling disclosure to his foster....
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September 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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‘I think I killed a kid’
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Winnipeg teens with criminal records sentenced for machete attacks on boy, 80-year-old
Minutes after he and another teen attacked a 15-year-old boy with machetes, nearly severing the victim’s wrist and slicing off three fingers, he ran home and made a startling disclosure to his foster....
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September 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Court hears recording of key meeting between RCMP informant and Hells Angel on trial for role in massive drug-trafficking ring
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Court hears recording of key meeting between RCMP informant and Hells Angel on trial for role in massive drug-trafficking ring
A year after infiltrating a massive drug-trafficking network, the informant known as Agent 66 was finally face-to-face with one of the organized-crime group’s alleged leaders, full-patch Hells Angel D...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Manitoba author who wrote about drinking exploits fined after attempted MPI fraud
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Manitoba author who wrote about drinking exploits fined after attempted MPI fraud
A retired Manitoba publisher who penned a memoir recounting his life of drinking has been fined $6,500 after admitting to filing a false claim with Manitoba Public Insurance following an alcohol-relat...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Man sues grocery store after he tried to steal car, was ‘punched, kicked and hit’ by staffers
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Man sues Winnipeg grocery store after he tried to steal car, was ‘punched, kicked and hit’ by staffers
A chronic thief who was beaten up after he was caught trying to steal a car outside an inner-city grocery store is suing staff, arguing he was left with life-altering injuries. “The amount of force us...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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ICYMI, from colleague Erik Pindera
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Specialized court helps Manitobans with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, but stigma and scarce resources remain barriers
As the Crown attorney’s sentencing argument to the judge nears the one-hour mark, it is interrupted by a defence lawyer. The lawyer’s client, a teenage girl dressed in a baggy sweatshirt — sitting wit...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Eight-year-old weighed 25 pounds, looked ‘like he was from Auschwitz’
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When Manitoba child welfare authorities arrived at his house, the eight-year-old boy was too weak to stand, so he was lying balled up on the floor, his body emaciated and skeletal, “like he was from A...
When child welfare authorities arrived at his house, the eight-year-old boy was too weak to stand, so he was lying balled up on the floor, his body emaciated and skeletal, “like he was from Auschwitz.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Shakedowns put North End shops on edge
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Shakedowns put North End shops on edge
A growing number of business owners in Winnipeg’s North End are pleading for help from law enforcement, claiming they’ve been targeted in a dangerous extortion and arson campaign. They allege that fou...
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July 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Plenty of daylight to find amid sea of humanity at Birds Hill Park
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Opinion: Winnipeg Folk Festival a chance to recharge, reconnect
A couple of choice lyric lines stuck out as I baked under a smoke-filled sky at the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s Big Bluestem stage this weekend.
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July 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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‘Strong message of deterrence’: health care aide who stole $80K from dying patient sentenced to jail time
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‘Strong message of deterrence’: health care aide who stole $80K from dying patient sentenced to jail time
A former health care aide who admitted stealing more than $80,000 from a nursing home patient dying of cancer sobbed uncontrollably as a judge denied her bid for house arrest and sentenced her to six....
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July 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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At the core, Apple thefts about greed: judge
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UPS supervisor sentenced to four years for stealing, selling customers’ electronics
Arrested for stealing and reselling $1.3 million worth of Apple electronics, former United Parcel Service supervisor Orville Beltrano offered a host of explanations for his prolific pilfering. His fam...
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July 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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From colleague Erik Pindera: Case provides show time for unexplained wealth order
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Sikh religious leader to to explain under oath in Manitoba court where he got his money
The provincial Justice Department is putting newly legislated powers to legal test, seeking a court order to force a Sikh religious leader — arrested last year for allegedly stealing hundreds of thous...
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June 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Sex charges stayed against chief after child testifies she lied
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June 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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‘I wish you had killed me so I don’t have to keep living like this’
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Beaten, bound woman left to die in frozen dumpster confronts ‘monster’ in Winnipeg courtroom
Her limbs bound with zip ties and tape, her body stuffed into a duffel bag, the petite Indigenous woman was tossed into a large metal garbage dumpster on a cold Winnipeg winter night and left to die.
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June 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Court grapples with how to handle senior who made 350 calls to 911, went to ER 137 times
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Winnipeg court grapples with how to handle senior who made 350 calls to 911, went to ER 137 times
A Winnipeg senior has spent more than 130 days in jail for making hundreds of phone calls to emergency response services in which she claimed crises that didn’t exist.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Ex-attorney general Goertzen’s request for second opinion on Nygard prosecution an abuse of process, judge decides, but denies defence motion to stay sex charges
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Ex-attorney general’s request for second opinion on Nygard prosecution an abuse of process, Manitoba judge decides
A Manitoba judge has ruled it was an abuse of process for the province’s attorney general to order an out-of-province review after Manitoba prosecutors declined to lay sex charges against Peter...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Anti-vax rule-breaker, failed political candidate tells court he’s no racist in defamation case testimony
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Anti-vax rule-breaker, failed political candidate tells Winnipeg court he’s no racist in defamation case testimony
Failed political candidate and anti-vaccination advocate Patrick Allard is suing the NDP and a former candidate for defamation, but Allard was in the hot seat in court Monday.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Judge sentences youth who murdered young father-to-be protecting family to seven years in custody
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Manitoba judge sentences youth who murdered young father-to-be protecting family to seven years in custody
A Winnipeg teen fatally stabbed coming to the aid of his family as they were attacked while walking to their car after a downtown concert had learned just hours earlier he was going to be the father o...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Despair, what is it good for?
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Despair, what is it good for? With a world in turmoil, hopelessness a call to action
Where does one start? From the numbing stupidity of a senseless trade war, to the growing normalization of autocracies and rejection of the rule of law, to the upending of science and expertise for qu...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Despair, what is it good for?
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Despair, what is it good for? With a world in turmoil, hopelessness a call to action
Where does one start? From the numbing stupidity of a senseless trade war, to the growing normalization of autocracies and rejection of the rule of law, to the upending of science and expertise for qu...
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May 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM