Maggie Macintosh

The Manitoba Lung Association says schools must create designated corners that offer resources about the harms of vaping and help with quitting because of the alarming increase in teenage users #mbed #wfp https://t.co/jP5qVW2R9V

Manitoba legislature tour guides have recorded an uptick in complaints from field-trip groups that have been drawn into political debate #mbed #wfp https://t.co/teg4uNnSgp

Premier Wab Kinew’s invitation to disgruntled U.S. scientists to relocate north has prompted another warning — this time, from students — about status quo research funding and workforce challenges #mbed #wfp https://t.co/fv6rpQ2IMv

Cybersecurity experts are scanning a new dataset of leaked files from 12 schools in south Winnipeg for passport scans and SINs. Pembina Trails says lesson plans, student assignments from a dozen communities were found on the dark web #mbed #wfp https://t.co/cOskTfW8dm

Manitoba’s largest school division has removed a rare entry exam used to sort graduating elementary students into different academic streams #mbed #wfp https://t.co/E7fyEmpQJY

The NDP has called on the auditor general to investigate a mega-contract to build daycares that it says allowed the previous government to funnel $2.8 million to a Progressive Conservative campaign manager’s firm #mbed #wfp https://t.co/UmdL7tGDMt

Grades 6, 9 and 11 students will receive explicit instruction about the Holocaust and learn about Jewish cultural traditions and contributions to Manitoba in the fall #mbed #wfp https://t.co/qytJAOyU0O

Supporters of study-abroad language programs are warning that cutbacks at the U of W and related closures on other campuses across the country will have wide ranging consequences #mbed #wfp https://t.co/OAZgZ4bPF6

New: LRSD plans to transform more classrooms into child-care spaces before and after its bells ring to better support working parents. “We have a child-care crisis in the province… The school system has to be part of the solution” #wfp #mbed https://t.co/ft64kf7G6D

Manitoba professors are heeding advice to avoid the United States for all but “essential and necessary” travel in response to rising political tensions and attacks on academic freedom south of the border #mbed #wfp https://t.co/nBN2CkxG38

The Louis Riel School Division is mourning the loss of a longtime teacher-turned-trustee who was known for her kindhearted nature and “feisty streak" #mbed #wfp https://t.co/95QFcpfJKs

University of Manitoba scientists are recruiting colleagues on campuses across the country to put pressure on Canada’s next prime minister to prioritize funding research amid an “international innovation vacuum” #mbed #wfp https://t.co/SUq9AnWbcX

A hiatus in the University of Winnipeg’s public lecture series has prompted its professors to launch their own version in memory of a notorious dismissal on the downtown campus #mbed #wfp https://t.co/brFFoEkEVU

Starting in Sept. 2026, the province is introducing universal screening — systematic checks on a student’s knowledge of the alphabet & letter-sound relationships, among related items — in K-4 #mbed #wfp https://t.co/wAC9Ydg7aW

New: School communities who scored poorly on last year’s Grade 12 pre-calculus exams are receiving more than half a million dollars combined to improve students’ skills #mbed #wfp https://t.co/CKhqEJ8wmY