Melissa Martin

There was a time, late in the storm of my adolescence, when the dark clouds inside my head and home swirled so thick I struggled just to breathe. By Grade 12, as my mental health collapsed, every day...

In the spring of 2017, when I first learned the Free Press had tapped me to interview former United States president Jimmy Carter, the first thing I did was call my father. Carter was my American dad’...

There is something immensely satisfying in the prospect of beating Toronto. It’s not necessarily just about sport. It’s also about celebrating Winnipeg’s own story.

CHERNEVE, Ukraine — To this day, Darlene Clark remembers what her father, William “Gus” Wasiuta, always said when he was feeding birds in the yard, or shooing a fly out of the house. He’d always shoo,...

In Chornobyl, memories of the 1986 nuclear disaster are intertwined with the present dangers of war. The area is a poignant reminder of resilience amid destruction, a precarious existence shaped by past and present calamities.

Brent DePape, a retired federal government economist, has made multiple trips to war-torn Ukraine to help wherever he

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Katerina Seledtsova has a six-year-old son, whom she adores, but she also dreams of someday having a daughter. So in 2018, when she opened a bakery and coffee shop on a pretty, t...

The year opened with beauty, with the gifts of the winter. It opened in sparkling snowdrifts and barren tree branches coated with silver. A wonderland, in which the light of the growing days can play: right now, Manitoba looks like the hopes we hold for each new year. A brightness, a promise, a blank page.

In the opening decades of the 20th century, optimism for the bustling Portage strip, and the blocks lined up neatly around it, was overflowing. The City of Winnipeg was growing, booming with new European settlers and new business, signs of the wealth being extracted from the land in a young colonial country, and the promises of more wealth to come.

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.