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Winnipeg Free Press
21 minutes ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Free Press Head Start for Aug. 15, 2025
Sunny, becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind becoming west at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High 23 C. Humidex 25. UV index 7 or high. What's happening today A new 4K restoration of Winnipeg-raised director David Secter's 1965 debut feature Winter Kept Us Warm opens tonight at the Dave Barber Cinematheque and runs until Aug. 20. Shot on campus against the wishes of the conservative establishment with an assist from student actors at the University of Toronto and photo school instructors from the former Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, the film has been cited as an inspiration by David Cronenberg, who has called the film 'a shattering revelation.' For tickets and showtimes, click here. Winter Kept Us Warm is screening six times at Cinematheque. (Supplied) Today's must-read Manitoba's first targeted U.S. campaign to attract American board-certified nurses has led to three new hires, nine currently working toward being licensed and 29 additional expressions of interest. 'We're glad to see that interest, but this is just one tool in our recruitment toolbox,' Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said in a statement. 'Our priority remains the one-on-one relationship-building that's proven to get results and keep people here for the long term.' If the province wants to attract more nurses, it needs to get its largest hospital removed from the 'grey list' alerting nurses that it's an unsafe place to work, says the head of their union. Carol Sanders has the story. Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files) On the bright side Neepawa is home to one of Canada's only remaining public-access television stations. Prior estimates that there are fewer than 30 left in Canada. Launching in 1983, during public-access TV's heyday, NAC-TV has a small studio and control room in which a tight-knit team of staff, volunteers and summer students dart back and forth. Part civic forum, part variety show, its programming blends local political news with charming homegrown fare — scavenger hunts, Filipino heritage events, high school sports and graduation ceremonies. Conrad Sweatman has the story. Neepawa's Community Access Television Station (NACTV) NACTV Manager Ken Waddell, left, and Eoin Devereux, journalist, in discussion on their show that discusses news and issues from the Neepawa Banner and Press. (Cheryl Hnatiuk / Free Press) On this date On Aug. 15, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, police had arrested four suspects and seized a large sum of money (equivalent to $300,000), apparently cracking Britain's great train robbery. The Soviet Union and China revealed the source of their acrid dispute over the nuclear test ban treaty: the U.S.S.R.'s refusal in 1959 to give China nuclear weapons. Prairie farmers expecrted a bumper crop, exceeding even that of 1952, a Free Press survey indicated. Read the rest of this day's paper here. Search our archives for more here. Today's front page Get the full story: Read today's e-edition of the Free Press .
National Post
21 minutes ago
- National Post
Cook This: 3 nourishing recipes from Eat to Love, including zucchini Parmesan egg muffins
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Our cookbook of the week is Eat to Love by nutritional chef Mikaela Reuben. Article content Nutritional chef Mikaela Reuben has cooked for some of the world's biggest celebrities, including Ryan Reynolds, Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson. For more than 15 years, she's toured with rock bands, joined movie stars on location and worked with high-performance athletes. Writing her cookbook debut, Eat to Love (Appetite by Random House, 2025), Reuben realized that as skilled as she is at nourishing others, it hasn't always been easy to do the same for herself. Article content As she worked on Eat to Love, the title took on different layers of meaning. It started with how food represented love in her family. Reuben's paternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors and passed down the idea that eating together, sharing food and recipes was love. Article content Article content 'In the world where only the grandchildren had the grandmother's recipes, where generations were preserved in mouthfuls, where the culture moved from person to person, that, to me, was such a beautiful story to see and to learn,' says Reuben. Article content 'In the process of creating the book and in my time as a private chef, I had to really focus on what self-love and self-nourishment looked like for me, and feeding myself was one of those things.' Article content Reuben, who grew up in Victoria and divides her time between Vancouver and New York, is certified as a holistic nutritionist, sports nutritionist and raw food chef. In Eat to Love, she features more than 115 plant-forward recipes. Travelling the world with her clients, she's accustomed to cooking on the fly and adapting to the situation — an approach that extends to the book. Article content Article content 'Being able to work with what you have became a metaphor for my life and a metaphor for how we made the book. Really, truly, make the recipes work for you,' says Reuben. Realizing that some cooks prefer clear direction, 'I tried to make precise guides for those who need that guidance. Then, go rogue.' Article content Article content Reuben weaves her nutritional knowledge throughout the book, explaining the building blocks for healthy eating and categorizing each recipe by health benefit. Though she cooks with animal products, plants are at the heart of the book. Article content 'I cook plant-forward because of fibre and because of nutrients. You can come to me and say, 'I'm vegan, I'm keto, I want all the meat in the world, I want low-carb, I want whatever.' I will still cook plant-forward food for any client that I have. All that changes is whether I choose starchy or non-starchy vegetables, or how I do the mixing, or what their goals are.' Article content Article content Reuben says that much of her confidence has come from someone showing her how to do something, from kicking a soccer ball to making crêpes, and then building on it.
Globe and Mail
25 minutes ago
- Globe and Mail
Cheap excuses for betraying free speech
This is getting out of hand in Canada. On Thursday, the chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival was in damage-control mode after having announced the previous day that the festival was cancelling the premiere of a documentary because of unspecified safety concerns. Or was it copyright concerns? Or maybe a staff revolt? The film, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, tells the story of a retired Israeli paratrooper who rescues his son and his son's family during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas. TIFF officials originally said the film was being pulled partly because the filmmakers hadn't procured the rights to Hamas's livestream footage of its massacre at the kibbutz where the son lived with his wife and two children. But that excuse was not repeated in an e-mail TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey sent to the filmmakers explaining the festival's decision. Instead, he said 'the risk of major, disruptive protest actions around the film's presence at the Festival, including internal opposition, has become too great.' A day later, Mr. Cameron apologized 'for any pain this situation may have caused' and denied that TIFF had censored the movie. He said he 'remains committed' to working with the filmmakers in order to 'allow the film to be screened.' (Late Thursday, TIFF said the movie would be part of the festival.) TIFF pledges to work with filmmakers of Oct. 7 documentary after pulling premiere Opinion: TIFF's latest censorship controversy is more than just a tiff. It's existential So, then, what was it that prompted TIFF to cancel the premiere initially: the festival's concerns about the intellectual property rights of a terrorist organization, or the 'internal opposition' and the threat of 'disruptive protest actions'? The latter is the better bet. This is the same organization that last year postponed screenings of a documentary, Russians at War, because it was 'aware of significant threats to festival operations and public safety.' That film, which followed a Russian battalion into battle in Ukraine, was accused of whitewashing Russian war crimes and condemned as Moscow propaganda. Chrystia Freeland, then the deputy prime minister, said she had 'grave concerns' about the film, while the Ukrainian Canadian Congress called for the resignation of TIFF's board. A year later, and now that people have actually watched it, Russians at War is said by critics to be a courageous antiwar film about disaffected and angry Russian soldiers forced to carry out Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Moscow would never allow its citizens to watch this film. A year after controversial TIFF premiere, Russians at War deserves to be seen But it's not just TIFF that is cancelling shows and hiding behind unidentified threats to security these days. This summer brought the sorry spectacle of federal and municipal officials cancelling performances by a D-list American country musician who makes his living preaching the most retrograde parts of the MAGA agenda. After people protested, officials in cities where concerts were scheduled cited 'security concerns' to justify shutting them down, a move that of course gave Sean Feucht more visibility in Canada than he could have ever hoped for. Two things connect these examples. One is the fact that the security threats cited as grounds for cancelling shows are never spelled out. People have the perfect right to call for the cancellation of a screening or musical concert that doesn't jibe with their beliefs and values, but they do not have the right to threaten violence or disruption it they don't get their way. At the same time, organizers should not be able to imply coyly and without evidence that protesters will act illegally. By ducking behind vague security concerns instead of exerting the right to show what they please, officials leave open the possibility that what they are really doing is capitulating to the loudest voices in a polarized debate. The other disturbing commonality is that officials are failing to reflexively protect the invaluable right to freedom of artistic and political expression in Canada. We have no doubt that if noisy protesters demanded the withdrawal of a TIFF movie because of its glorification of violence, TIFF officials would be the first to stand up for the filmmaker's right to artistic expression. But when it comes to telling stories or singing songs that some deem offensive, that reflex has been replaced by a knee-jerk run for cover. This is an alarming development in Canada. In difficult times, we need people in positions of authority to stand up for freedom of expression – not look for excuses to abandon it. That never ends well for anyone.
