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McKenzie was born on August 19, 1923, in Winnipeg. [1] He played junior ice hockey as a defenceman on the St. James Canadians, [2] then joined the Winnipeg Free Press at age 17. [1] He began as a copy boy then became a weekly sports columnist. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) then was stationed in Montreal during World War II.
She began her journalism career at the Winnipeg Free Press, as agriculture reporter, general reporter and business writer.. After the Free Press, she joined CBC Television in Winnipeg as a morning television co-host, then spent two years in Toronto as co-host and producer for the short-lived national business program "MoneyMakers".
The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis.
A typical 50-line obit in the Dispatch running twice during the week would cost $603. A one-timer in the Sunday edition would set you back $440.50. This is typical of other papers, indexed against ...
Merrick was a prominent voice in calling for a landfill search for the victims of the 2022 Winnipeg serial killings remains, [14] with Niigaan Sinclair writing for the Winnipeg Free Press describing Merrick as the "primary political voice demanding a search of the Prairie Green landfill". [7]
He attempted to ban lap dancing in the city, and strongly opposed a 1995 court decision which legalized the practice (Winnipeg Free Press, 9 December 1995). He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights ( Kitchener-Waterloo Record ...
Richard Jamieson Scott OC OM KC (March 20, 1938 – November 22, 2024) was a Canadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Manitoba.In that capacity, he presided over the Manitoba Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2013.
Lorne "Boom Boom" Benson (September 16, 1930 – April 3, 2012) was a fullback who played in the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1951 to 1955. Benson first played in 1951, but nonetheless won the Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy for Canadian rookie of the year in the west in 1952 on the strength of his 491 rushing yards. [ 1 ]