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Homemade

Winnipeg Free Press

time9 hours ago

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Homemade

Welcome to Homemade, a Winnipeg Free Press project celebrating home cooking in Manitoba. We regularly publish recipe features that highlight the communities, traditions and flavours of this wonderfully diverse province. Submit your recipe to have your dish considered for a future story — recipes can be beloved family favourites or everyday staples. Submit a Recipe Eva Wasney 8 minute read 5:05 PM CDT Homemade is a series that celebrates home cooking in Manitoba. Find more stories, ideas and share your recipes at In today's Homemade Cooking School lesson, chef Mandy Wingert walks us through the basics of stocks and sauces — essential culinary components designed to enhance the flavour, moisture and texture of a dish. 'It's like the foundation of your house. If you don't have a good stock, you're going to be playing catch-up trying to make things taste better,' says Wingert, a culinary and baking instructor at Red River College Polytechnic. Originally from Saskatchewan, she grew up in a family of cooks and knew from an early age she wanted to pursue a career in food. We try reader-submitted Jell-O recipes Eva Wasney 8 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 8 minute read Wednesday, Jul. 9, 2025 Saturday is Eat Your Jell-O Day. In honour of this gelatinous holiday, we've done just that. Read Wednesday, Jul. 9, 2025 EVA WASNEY / FREE PRESS Clockwise from top left: Broken glass torte, spring parfait salad, orange jellied salad, tomato aspic. Salads add colour, texture, freshness and acidity to any dinner table Eva Wasney 4 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 4 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 25, 2025 Unlike most of The Simpsons clan, I'm of the opinion that you can, in fact, win friends with salad. And not because of their purported 'health benefits.' Read Wednesday, Jun. 25, 2025 MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Alison's Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with Mango Chutney recipe in Winnipeg on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. For Eva Wasney cookbook. Winnipeg Free Press 2022. Cutting edge tips: Learn kitchen knife skills in our new monthly cooking feature Eva Wasney 7 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 7 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 11, 2025 Welcome to the first class of Homemade: Cooking School, a new Free Press series featuring in-depth cooking tutorials from professional local chefs. Read Wednesday, Jun. 11, 2025 MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Terry Gereta demonstrates knife skills at RRC Polytech on Monday. He says a sharp knife is a safe knife, as a dull knife may move while cutting. Turn on that barbecue and get grilling: Barbecue Lean Pork, Gale's Barbecue Trout and Auntie Shirley Potatoes Eva Wasney 4 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 4 minute read Tuesday, May. 27, 2025 Make the most of grilling season with reader recipes for Barbecue Lean Pork from Anita Lee, Gale's Barbecue Trout from Gale Petreny and Auntie Shirley Potatoes from Patti Mersereau-LeBlanc. Read Tuesday, May. 27, 2025 Freepik Adding lemon to barbecued trout is never a bad idea. Spring flings: Use seasonal produce in go-to faves asparagus soup, spinach salad, rhubarb pie Eva Wasney 4 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 4 minute read Tuesday, May. 13, 2025 This week, Homemade features cream of asparagus soup from Rae Carpenter, spinach salad from Vi Scherbak and rhubarb crunch pie from Velma Scott. Read Tuesday, May. 13, 2025 RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS files Rae Carpenter makes cream of asparagus soup every year when the snow is finally gone. Expand those Easter baskets Eva Wasney 7 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 7 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2025 Add some home-baked Easter treats to this weekend's cache of chocolate eggs and marshmallow chicks. This week, we have some sweet, sentimental reader recipes for Dolly's Easiest and Yummiest Sugar Cookies from Dolly Kuzyk, Babka from Shirley Kalyniuk and Daffodil Cake from Karen Stepaniuk. Want to share a recipe? Visit Homemade to fill out the submission form. Read Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2025 EVA WASNEY PHOTO Dolly Kuzyk's sugar cookie recipe can be decorated to suit the occasion. Stir things up with these creamy crowd-pleasers: Cowboy Caviar, Cucumber Chip Dip, Hot Hamburger/Bean Dip Eva Wasney 4 minute read Preview Eva Wasney 4 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2025 Due to the recent 'dip' in temperature, this week's Homemade is an homage to, you guessed it, dips. Read Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2025 RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS files Leslie Pitchford's Cowboy Caviar recipe is home on the range.

Taxpayers federation fears MLAs sleeping through debt-clock alarm
Taxpayers federation fears MLAs sleeping through debt-clock alarm

Winnipeg Free Press

time14 hours ago

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Taxpayers federation fears MLAs sleeping through debt-clock alarm

The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation parked its mobile debt clock beside the Legislative Building Tuesday to sound the alarm over the province's rising debt. 'We're seeing the debt go up about $4,000 a minute, $231,000 an hour, about $5.5 million a day, and taxpayers don't understand how those numbers are going up until you actually see it on the side of the truck,' the federation's Gage Haubrich said. The electronic clock showed Manitoba's provincial debt ticking past $35 billion and each Manitoban's share totalling more than $23,000. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS The Canadian Taxpayers Federation brought their the Debt Clock to the Manitoba legislature to launch its provincial debt clock tour and sound the alarm about the growing provincial debt. By the end of the year, the province is expected to be in the red by about $36.5 billion, or $24,215 per Manitoban, the non-profit organization said. The debt clock is travelling across the province with the federation suggesting Manitobans urge their MLAs to call on the government to control spending. 'We're hoping that (MLAs) can see (the clock) from the window,' said Haubrich, who is based in Saskatoon. 'The bottom line is that, as the government borrows more money, they actually have less money to spend on services because almost 10 per cent of the entire budget is spent on debt interest.' Interest charges on the debt are estimated to cost $2.3 billion this year — more than $6.4 million every day, and close to $1,550 per Manitoban. Taxpayers in this province pay the second-highest per person debt interest charges in the country, according to the federation. 'If they keep borrowing and kicking that can down the road, that number is only going to go higher,' Haubrich said. Premier Wab Kinew and Finance Minister Adrien Sala have promised to balance the province's books before the end of the NDP government's first term. The premier was in Ontario Tuesday attending a first ministers meeting. Sala said he'd respond to the taxpayers' federation later Tuesday. Carol Sanders Legislature reporter Carol Sanders is a reporter at the Free Press legislature bureau. The former general assignment reporter and copy editor joined the paper in 1997. Read more about Carol. Every piece of reporting Carol produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press 's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press 's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.

Encampments and personal responsibilities
Encampments and personal responsibilities

Winnipeg Free Press

time2 days ago

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  • Winnipeg Free Press

Encampments and personal responsibilities

Opinion Some parts of Winnipeg have a noxious problem on their hands. Among behaviours by the residents of homeless encampments causing consternation among other Winnipeggers near the sites, the act of burning cable and wires in order to cash in on the metallic components is, literally, a toxic one. It's a problem firefighters have had to contend with, and one local authorities seem ill-equipped to address. Wire burning poses serious short-term and long-term health risks; the burning wires release carcinogens into the atmosphere and those exposed are at a higher risk of developing cancer. BROOK JONES/FREE PRESS An encampment on the bank of the Red River along the North Winnipeg Parkway Winnipegger Howard Warren told the Free Press he has asked residents of an encampment near his home to cease burning wires, but says his requests have been rebuffed. Warren pointed out that, were he to do the same in his own yard, his neighbours would likely complain and he may face penalties under the law. He's right, and the double-standard reveals a major problem, one with which those sympathetic to the encampments will have to contend. In late June, this paper shed light on an element of encampment life which put to the test the common stereotype that residents of homeless encampments are there because they have no other choice. Some residents, the June 25 story revealed, prefer to live in encampments. 'These are the people I trust, instead of somebody I don't trust or don't know,' one encampment resident, identified as Joseph, told the Free Press. He was unimpressed by provincial plans to end homelessness by 2031. 'And why? We don't have to pay rent. Why would I pay $600 for someone to tell me how to live when I could pay nothing and live how I want to live?' It's a whimsical notion, and one easy to be sympathetic to. Modern life is fraught with high costs and irritating obligations. And some people are not well-equipped or inclined to take part in the 21st-century rat-race. So let's indulge that thought for just a moment, that encampments in the city could be treated as permanent settlements for those who are not calibrated to the 'ordinary,' way of living. And let's narrow the focus to those who do have the choice, and not those who live in encampments because mental health issues or addictions leave them little choice. What does this idealized arrangement demand of everybody involved? Wednesdays A weekly dispatch from the head of the Free Press newsroom. Without wanting to besmirch the character of the aforementioned Joseph, let's zoom in on one comment he made: why should he want to pay rent 'for someone to tell me how to live…?' That's the sticking point, here: for all the talk among some encampment residents and their advocates about how the encampments provide protective, tight-knit communities for their residents, there is a distinct antisocial streak within them, one which makes the encampments dangerous and antagonistic to the rest of the city around them. Even in a world without all of the expectations which come with modern living, there is still such a thing as the social contract — a set of expectations placed on the individual which, while varying between cultures, is a fact of life across human civilization. In the distant past, one might have been free to pitch one's tent wherever worked, but there remained a social requirement to behave in a way that was not burdensome or dangerous to everyone else. While encampments may be a preferred way of life for some, they cannot and should not be a way to opt out entirely from the social contract. Encampments are not going to be a sustainable reality for the people living in them if their establishment is followed by trash littering the area, unsafe and toxic fires burning through the night, and other disruptive or criminal activities. Some people may be willing to look at those choosing the encampment life and say 'live and let live,' — but it's not going to happen if encampment residents can't figure out how to be better neighbours.

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